Florida puts bad guys with guns away for a long time. That’s why they have the lowest firearm violent crime rate EVER.
Illinois?
Well, especially in counties with left-leaning State’s Attorneys, soft-on-crime is the watchword of the day.
Take Jensen McNeal, pictured above.
He was arrested in 2014 for having a loaded handgun in his vehicle with him. Not only that, it was a stolen gun that someone had tried to grind off the serial number.
The local State’s Attorney, notoriously anti-gun Democrat Julia Reitz, after allowing Mr. McNeal to delay the trial for months and months, totally over a year, dismissed the Class 3 felony of possessing a gun with a defaced serial number. She dismissed the Class 2 felony of possessing a stolen gun. And she pled the Class 4 felony of (in essence) carrying a gun without a license (Aggravated Unlawful Use of Weapons).
The judge sentenced him to the maximum of 3 years in prison, with credit for a whopping two days served in county jail.
Six months and a few days later, he was out, prowling the streets of Champaign County once more.
Fast forward to late last night: Mr. McNeal was spotted at The Canopy Club – where some half-assed hip hop “artist” was playing – carrying a gun. Cops got called and guess what they found in the car he was sitting in when they arrived?
If you guessed a .45 auto, you would be right.
In Florida, that original case in 2014 would have had Mr. McNeal serving as a guest of the Florida Department of Corrections for a number of years, without parole, plea bargains or probation.
In Illinois, prison sentences are like dog-years in reverse. Get sentenced to three years, get out in a few months.
We should just be thankful Mr. McNeal hadn’t shot anyone. At least we haven’t solved any cases involving him – yet. He certainly wasn’t enroute to church carrying that unlawfully possessed gun as a felon.
And you wonder why our streets aren’t as safe as Florida’s.
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