Sentences with phrase «in gun cases»

On average in Minnesota, prosecutor's object to a judge's reduced sentence in gun cases only 12 % of the time.
Our analysis of sentencing data provided by the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission reveals in gun cases across all of Minnesota, judges give less than the mandatory minimum sentence 53 % of the time.
As some may recall (and as detailed in posts here and here), Cavera is the fascinating case in which Judge Sifton decided to enhance a sentence above the guideline range in a gun case because he viewed gun possession in urban spots like NYC to be especially bad.
In 1974 I sat in a courtroom in Southern Illlinois and observed how the court there conducted preliminary hearings in a gun case.
In the guns case, however, Justice John Paul Stevens performed his own analysis of the original meaning of the Second Amendment and dissented, suggesting that divining the meaning of the amendment when it was written is a close call.

Not exact matches

Others buy them in case U.S. gun control laws become stricter.
While it might be appropriate in some cases to take on the assignment regardless, generally you'll feel better about yourself over the long run if you stick to your guns and don't allow yourself to lower your price.
When you have these kinds of price hikes, which in some cases I believe are just simply criminal and they are done because of greed, it's like putting a gun to somebody's head and saying you need to pay me this very high price for the drug or you die.
«But this (law) in any case is a gun which will be hanging on the wall and can shoot someday,» the source said.
In the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller case, the Supreme Court ruled 5 - 4 that the Second Amendment protects a person's right to own guns — at a federal level — and in 2010 the court said that protection applies at a local level as welIn the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller case, the Supreme Court ruled 5 - 4 that the Second Amendment protects a person's right to own guns — at a federal level — and in 2010 the court said that protection applies at a local level as welin 2010 the court said that protection applies at a local level as well.
«Since the Heller case, the next great question for the Supreme Court to decide was whether there is a right to carry guns in public,» Winkler told the AP.
No one has been arrested in the burglary, one of several cases in recent years in which Bay Area law enforcement officers lost guns to thieves and which have prompted legislators to push for tougher requirements for securing weapons.
Countless Americans believe the «good guy with a gun» myth, but — as we saw with the armed guard in Florida who never went inside the high school — that isn't always the case.
But as a Republican president, perhaps the most pro-firearm chief executive in American history, Trump is, in theory, in a unique position to use his good standing with Second Amendment activists to make the case for gun reforms.
Outside the hall were millions of Canadians who, in many cases, support other parties precisely because of Harper's position on taxes, daycare, gun control and a hundred other issues.
Gun - rights organizations also weighed in, including the National Rifle Association, which argued that the case stood to «eviscerate» the gun companies» legal protections.
Others, including some gun control and mental health advocates, point to the increasing number of states that allow law enforcement officers or, in some cases, family members or others to petition a court to temporarily take guns from people who pose a danger to themselves or others.
This year, gun owners have declared that they will rush to the stores to buy firearms in case Obama is reelected as President of the U.S. Already, RGR and competitor, Smith & Wesson (SWHC), have enjoyed impressive sales figures.
In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; 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The documents, which are part of Cruz's criminal case in the shooting, show that he had written the word «kill» in a notebook, told a classmate that he wanted to buy a gun and use it, and had cut his arm supposedly in anger because he had broken up with a girlfriend.
Law enforcement in Broward County has taken steps to seize guns in more cases than anywhere in the state.
In Connecticut, where 762 gun seizure cases were carried out from 1999 to June 2013, a study by researchers at Duke University estimated that the law had averted approximately one suicide for every 10 to 11 gun seizure cases.
In some cases, gun control polled better after Parkland than it did in the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting in October 2017, which killed 58 people, the deadliest mass shooting in post-World War II American historIn some cases, gun control polled better after Parkland than it did in the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting in October 2017, which killed 58 people, the deadliest mass shooting in post-World War II American historin the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting in October 2017, which killed 58 people, the deadliest mass shooting in post-World War II American historin October 2017, which killed 58 people, the deadliest mass shooting in post-World War II American historin post-World War II American history.
In the case with Delta, only 13 people used the NRA discount, and Calkins says the airline never came out and said it supported gun control legislation.
Because of the distribution of crime by race — why that's the case isn't at issue here — there will be more policemen with guns in predominantly black neighborhoods than white ones.
Is there a law in your town rquiring you to have a gun, as is the case in some very low crime rate communities?
The gun owner is usually killed with his own weapon in the RARE case of home invasion.
More illegal shooting occur in locations where guns a tightly regulated and in most cases totally outlawed like Mexico.
He also said that part of the motivations were for students — who are allowed to carry guns on campus and even in dorms — to be prepared in case of «active shooter» situations.
An off - duty LAPD officer fired his gun during an altercation with a 13 - year - old Latino boy and group of teens in Anaheim, California, allegedly because one of the teens walked on his lawn on their way home from school, sparking protests in the area community protested the case.
(FWIW, the only firearm I own is a.22 rifle that I inherited from my dad, that hasn't been out of its case in 30 years, but I guess that suffices to make me a «gun nut» according to the rubric of the day.)
Patrolmen were armed with whips, and in some cases guns, and were given the discretion to beat and even kill black people — even compliant ones (it was not illegal at the time to kill a black person since they were deemed non-human).
(I think that is your question) Pretty broad to be too helpful but sure, a gun is good if you hunt responsibly with it and horrible in many other cases.
Not Benedict, there is no proof in the two cases that CNN tried to present as a smoking gun against him.
How should we make sense of these cases, and what if the Servant, the nurse or the clerk were «going through the motions» at the point of a gun, rather than merely (as in the condemned Servant view) in fear of their jobs or an «angry look»?
That allowed the NCR's guns to be turned on to an even larger target: «The cover - up is the product of secrecy, privilege and a lack of accountability that are major elements of the clerical culture in which the sex abuse scandal flourished... It was made worse because officials either ignored or downplayed the claims of victims and went to great lengths in many cases to protect the abusers.»
In the meantime, blogger Liza Long wrote a hyper - viral piece titled «I Am Adam Lanza's Mother,» detailing her experiences as the mother of a mentally ill child, making the case that help for the mentally ill, not gun control, is the solution...
It was suggested that Zafar Bhatti was one of two people involved in a gun attack at a prison in Rawalpindi, but charity Release International says that is not the case.
In one case we had a little revival outside one of the most notorious gun shops in Philadelphia, Colosimo's on Spring Garden StreeIn one case we had a little revival outside one of the most notorious gun shops in Philadelphia, Colosimo's on Spring Garden Streein Philadelphia, Colosimo's on Spring Garden Street.
Far too many Christian see Jesus» instructions to His disciples to go buy a sword as an endorsement by Jesus of gun ownership, and in some cases, an endorsement of violence.
In almost every case where guns are used to kill other people, either the people who do the shooting were using illegally - obtained guns anyway, and so better gun control wouldn't have stopped them from getting the guns in the first place, OR the people shooting the guns would have qualified to own guns by any proposed gun control standarIn almost every case where guns are used to kill other people, either the people who do the shooting were using illegally - obtained guns anyway, and so better gun control wouldn't have stopped them from getting the guns in the first place, OR the people shooting the guns would have qualified to own guns by any proposed gun control standarin the first place, OR the people shooting the guns would have qualified to own guns by any proposed gun control standard.
I surprised she didn't suggest that «god» gave them Trig so there would be another male around in case they needed to protect their gun rights and form a militia.
we always had guns of all sorts and we never actually even killed a rabbit, although we would go Rabbit hunting... and try not o kill each other... we felt good about the gun in case of snakes but if we saw rattlers we usually ran...
Why not look at this as a case where a psychiatric patient — probably a paranoid schizophrenic — took advantage of permissive US gun laws and carried out the wishes of voices in his head?
Meanwhile the boys were walking around the store planning their defense — MacGyver style — in case of Zombie attack — things like how they could use duck tape to modify nail guns.
There are so many 9 - mm guns and so many shootings in New Orleans — 365 people were murdered there in 1995 — that no one thought to match the markings of spent casings from Bannister's Ruger with those found on Morrison Road three months earlier.
Now, in the dark of a February night, Smith and Phillips were carrying guns and casing Tangie's house for signs of life.
I know I am jumping the gun a bit here by assuming that Arsenal will continue to be more like the side we saw win away to Crystal Palace last week, rather than the one that slumped to a dismal defeat at home to West Ham, but the end of last season and the way we were playing in pre-season has given us good reason to think that will be the case.
More recently, it has been a case of incompetence in the defensive side of our game, we've tried to take the game to Chelsea and go guns blazing which put us at danger every time we lost the ball on the counter attack especially as we used to play a ridiculously high line.
Even with that being the case you know he'll be gun shy at the plate, especially with this being the second time he was hit in the wrist in less than a year.
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