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Did a gun control law stop this?
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...home-headlines
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Mario Moreno should still have been behind bars the night he climbed into the passenger seat of a stolen car with two fellow gang members.
He was carrying a rifle, some cartridges and, in his jacket pocket, a bag of marijuana. "Let's go do this," the car's driver recalled Moreno saying as they headed into the turf of a rival black gang.
If not for a chronic shortage of jail beds in Los Angeles County, Dennard's killer would have been in jail four more months. Moreno had been convicted of possessing a sawed-off shotgun — a felony. A probation officer called him a "danger to the community," and a judge sentenced him to a year in jail, the county maximum. Six days later he was released into a work program. Since his arrest, he had served a total of 53 days
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If you want an answer to californias crime issue, there it is. Instead of keeping an obviously dangerous felon in jail, he was released AFTER being convicted of possessing a sawed off shotgun. That alone is an NFA violation and should have faced federal charges. And one year? one damn year?
all the screaming for tougher gun control laws is a waste of energy if you're just going to let the bad guys back out on the street.
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