California Model: Soft on Violent
Firearm Crimes, Hard on Gun-Owners
By NRA-ILA. March 1, 2021
A frustrating aspect of the modern gun control movement is its seeming abandonment of reason. The same anti-gun politicians that attack the rights of law-abiding gun owners will advocate for more lenient treatment of those who misuse firearms to commit violent crimes.
Consider California's Assembly Bill 1509, which would alter the state's scheme of sentence enhancements for serious crimes committed with firearms. The legislative counsel's digest summarized the changes as follows:
Existing law imposes a sentence enhancement in the state prison of 10 years for personally using a firearm in the commission of specified felonies, 20 years for personally and intentionally discharging a firearm in the commission of those felonies, and 25 years to life for personally and intentionally discharging a firearm and causing great bodily injury or death to any other person during the commission of those felonies.
This bill would reduce those enhancements to 1, 2, and 3 years, respectively.
Existing law imposes a sentence enhancement of 5, 6, or 10 years in the state prison for, with intent to inflict great bodily injury or death, discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle in the commission of a felony and inflicting great bodily injury or death in the commission of a felony.
This bill would reduce that enhancement to 1, 2, or 3 years in the state prison.
AB1509 was authored by Assemblymember Alex Lee (D-25). The bill was co-authored by Assemblymembers Wendy Carrillo (D-51), Ash Kalra (D-27), Mark Stone (D-29), and Senator Scott Wiener (D-11).
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As if further proof was needed to demonstrate abject lack of logic, we see the egregious disparity between rights abuses against lawful gun owners compared with lax prosecution of firearms crime. The dice continue to be loaded such that good is treated as bad and, bad gets something approaching a pass - hardly the way to deal with crime.
