By Bob Walsh
Assemblyman Bill Essayli, R-Riverside
Assemblyman Bill Essayli,
R-Riverside, has proposed AB328. If enacted into law it would remove
from judges the discretion to dismiss firearms-related enhancements for
crimes. The ACLU is screaming their collective head off, asserting that
this bill removes the ability of judges to "resist a particular species
of excessive and unjust sentence."
Apparently
wanting bad guys who use guns to commit crimes to serve additional time
for having done so it excessive and unjust. And also racist.
The
ACLU asserts (inaccurately) that "AB328 is unnecessary and has no
public safety benefit. Although people will serve longer prison
sentences, this will not increase deterrence nor meaningfully prevent
crime by incapacitation." That assertion is idiotic on it's face. When
bad guys are in prison they are incapable of committing crimes in the
general public because they are in prison. By definition that increases
incapacitation.
Essayli
is a former federal prosecutor. As he points out Black Americans are
about 14% of the general population but make up 32% of crime victims in
general and 54% of the homicide victims in general.
The
bill is scheduled to be heard in the Assembly Public Safety Committee
tomorrow. That committee is generally known as the graveyard of
criminal justice legislation.
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