{"id":73658,"date":"2017-07-28T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73658"},"modified":"2017-07-28T10:08:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:08:29","slug":"baltimore-loves-illegal-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73658","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore loves illegal guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/baltimore.cbslocal.com\/2017\/07\/25\/baltimore-gun-bill-hearing\/\">CBS News Baltimore<\/a> which reports on the Baltimore City Council meeting where two activists were arrested for disrupting the proceedings while the council discussed mandatory minimum sentences for folks caught with illegal guns. The council was trying to put an end to the 600 shootings in the last year in the city. After order was restored, the measure passed in a 5-2 vote. Yes, two council members voted in favor of illegal guns;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Council member Brandon Scott, of the 2nd district, says he\u2019s against the bill in any form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amendments make the bill easier to stomach, it still doesn\u2019t change the fact that I disagree with the bill in its entirety and its principles of mandatory minimums,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>One of the staunchest supporters of the bill says he\u2019s not a fan of the amendments, but he was willing to compromise in order to get closer to the goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have dozens and dozens of constituents who have reached out about this, and they are frankly sick and tired of people illegally carrying guns on the street and wreaking havoc on out communities,\u201d says Eric Costello of the 11th district.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mandatory one-year sentence to jail for possessing an illegal gun only applies to the second offense unless the first offense occurs concurrent with another crime. Seems like weak sauce to me, but, hey, if it gets illegal guns off the street. I do find it hard to believe that everyone is upset at jailing criminals, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to CBS News Baltimore which reports on the Baltimore City &hellip; <a title=\"Baltimore loves illegal guns\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73658\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Baltimore loves illegal guns<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}