Trey Gowdy hits the bulls eye in this little response to the Most Prevalent Question of the Day:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...ol-n2390792?amp=true

"As the drum beat for new gun control laws continues to get louder on Capitol Hill, former prosecutor and Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Trey Gowdy is taking a different approach to the situation.

During an interview with Fox News Dana Perino this week, Gowdy called on gun control proponents to verify that the slew of laws already on the books are being fully enforced before the government piles on new legislation or regulation.

"We already have controls on what kind of guns you can have, where you can have them, when you can use them and what individuals can possess even a single bullet. So the question to me is whether or not current controls are adequate and there are two fundamental questions that you should put your finger on," Gowdy said. "What law had it existed at the time would have prevented this mass killing or another mass killing. What law, but for its lack of implementation could have prevented this. That's one question. The other question is, among all the panoply of current gun laws, how are we doing enfocing them?"

Gowdy added that DOJ statistics show few prosecutions for a number of gun laws already on the books.


"I was really underwhelmed at the level of prosecution over the last eight years," Gowdy said.

Trey is always right on point. I would not want to be a lawyer that had to oppose him in a court room.

Trey is a damn genius. Glad he's on 'our' side.

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Originally posted by zimman20:
Trey is a damn genius. Glad he's on 'our' side.

The other side has none of their own. It's what makes constructive debate with a liberal impossible... No facts or reason or logic, just emotion.

I recall a woman doing a straw purchase a couple of years ago for her felon bf to get a gun he used to shoot a cop in some liberal state.

She got something like 2 years probation.

That'll show em.

Chongosuerte,
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Two dead firefighters and the shooter had a prior for a violent crime. She (the straw purchaser) got 4 years state time and 8 years federal time (concurrent).

Here's the video:


"I was really underwhelmed at the level of prosecution over the last eight years," Gowdy said.

Under the Obama administration, prosecutions of those who violated federal gun laws plummeted by 25 percent. Prosecutions of these crimes are up under the direction of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...gun-control-n2390792

"Chicago seems to have a lack of willingness to prosecution crime. In 2012, Former NYPD Deputy Commissioner John Miller told CBS News, “In Chicago, you’ve got a 50-50 chance that you’re not going to do any jail time…(and)…33 percent of those cases are dismissed outright” (Reynolds, 2013). Miller’s statements may not be too far off from reality."

"When it comes to prosecuting crimes committed with firearms, Chicago ranked eighty out of eighty-seven regions in 2011. Los Angeles ranked eighty-third, and San Francisco ranked dead last at eighty-seven – the lowest prosecution rate for gun-related crimes (Syracuse University, 2011). As of June 2015, Syracuse University noted there were only forty-eight weapons convictions in the Northern District of Illinois which includes both Chicago and Rockford, Illinois (Ballotpedia, 2014). Gun control seems to be Chicago’s focus."

" Chicago’s criminal prosecution is very low, and politicians are closing prisons, reducing criminal sentences now in order to reduce the city’s $9 billion of debt. Research data has shown that Chicago’s high crime is also negatively impacting the local economy by over $144 billion in just 2006. Socially, citizens are also subject to witnessing or reading about the regular killings that occur in the city."
http://www.netadvisor.org/2015...cution/#.Wdk_ktBlCf1