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(AP Photo/David J. Phillip) Given Art Acevedo’s long history of support for gun control legislation (the picture above is from 2018, when Acevedo walked alongside gun control activists while serving as the police chief in Houston), it shouldn’t really come as a surprise that the Miami police chief’s response to the shooting over the weekend outside a rap concert that left two people dead and about two dozen injured involves putting more laws on the books.
Speaking on Face The Nation on Sunday, Acevedo demanded changes to our nation’s gun laws, even though he couldn’t explain how the new restrictions he’s backing would have prevented the targeted attack outside the south Florida banquet hall. “It’s just an indication of the problem we have with the scourge of gun violence in this country, that we have to do much more at the federal level to stop,” Acevedo told host John Dickerson. “They need to come out of their own corners — the left and the right — and come to the middle, which is where most Americans are,” he said. “We need to have universal background checks, we need to make burglarizing these licensed gun stores a federal crime with mandatory sentencing,” the chief said. “We need the federal government and both sides to address these issues.” “Because without legislation … we’re never going to get through this summer without much more death and destruction,” he said. “The American people deserve greater safety.” Now, I don’t really have an issue with making burglary of a federally licensed firearms dealer a federal offense, or Acevedo’s call to ensure that violent felons found in possession of a firearm face serious prison time . Where Acevedo misses the mark, however, is in his call for “universal background checks,” which do nothing to prevent criminals from illicitly obtaining a gun.
What’s more, I’d argue that a federal universal background check law would actually lead to less prison time for some prohibited persons caught with a gun.
We already have a huge problem with plea bargains in our criminal justice system; about 95% of criminal cases at both […]
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