By Mark Oliva Let the gun control zealots defend this. Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón had to be shamed into doing his job to protect his community from a would-be school murderer. DA Gascón refused to bring charges against a teen who allegedly posted threats against a school on social media and was allegedly caught carrying … Read more
[O]n his first day in office, Gascon issued a memo listing 13 crimes that the District Attorney’s Office no longer would prosecute, including driving without a valid license, drug possession, loitering to commit prostitution, resisting arrest, and trespassing. The results of such changes are “creating a dystopian society as we speak,” [Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex] Villanueva … Read more
From the Firearms Policy Coalition . . . Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) issued the following statement in response to Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón’s letters sent to credit card companies asking them to stop processing payments for select firearm parts, which are legal to purchase under federal law: When the law isn’t on their side, … Read more
By Lee Williams None of the more than 20,000 gun laws on the books in this country will ever stop a criminal from committing a crime – not one – but when you add soft-on-crime prosecutors, politicians only trying to deflect blame and an unguarded target just waiting to be looted, you get a perfect … Read more
The People of the Gun have long known that gun control only disarms victims, not criminals. Now, even Democrats are wising up to that fact. By a more than two-to-one margin, Democrats surveyed in a Trafalgar Group poll say gun control either makes no difference or actually makes matters worse when it comes to big … Read more
“’It’s gotten to a point where residents feel insecure even going from their door to their car,’ said resident Shirley Reitman. ‘A lot of residents are applying for a concealed carry weapon permit, even though that’s a great challenge in LA County.’” Does this woman live in a tough, violence-prone neighborhood in east L.A.? Is … Read more
Gun control is for civilians, not criminals. The criminal justice system should view criminals as victims. These are the guiding lights of Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon. On the same day that an 81-year-old woman was shot to death in a home invasion robbery, Gascon sent out a fundraising email decrying the use of … Read more
By Julie Watson and Brian Melley, AP Sirhan Sirhan faces his 16th parole hearing Friday for fatally shooting U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, and for the first time no prosecutor will be there to argue he should be kept behind bars. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, a former police officer who … Read more
A new breed of prosecutors has been elected in urban centers all over the country in the last four or five years, virtually all of them heavily supported by billionaire George Soros. They have politicized their offices and the criminal justice system, picking and choosing — based on “social justice” considerations — which laws they … Read more
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