Project Exile, a program that has been successful elsewhere, will focus on convicted felons in possession of firearms, who officials say are responsible for the dramatic uptick in homicides. The city had 19 killings in 2009, a 27-year low. With more vigorous prosecution, the officials argue, gun offenders not only will be put away longer, but they’ll think twice before arming themselves on the streets… [US attorneyB. Todd] Jones said his prosecutors will begin by meeting weekly with staff from [Hennepin County attorney] Freeman’s office to review every gun case in Minneapolis to determine which should be brought to federal court. They’ll look at the most serious and dangerous offenders, and at which statutes are likely to result in the most effective consequences. Under some federal statutes, certain offenders can face mandatory minimum sentences of up to 15 years. Others average from two to five years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What’s missing?<\/p>\n
Go back 20-25 years; there would have been an unctuous proclamation from someone like Alan Spear or Wes “Lying Sack of Garbage” Skoglund about the need to pass “tough” new gun control.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And make no mistake about it – the left’ll be working on it.\u00a0 But in this post-McDonald <\/em>world, they’ll have to do it vewwwwwy quietly.<\/p>\nBut at least outwardly?\u00a0 Who’d have thunk in 1990 that by 2010 Minneapolis’ ultraliberal leadership would essentially be\u00a0repeating the NRA party line?<\/p>\n
Perhaps we need a victory parade?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Murders are way, way up in Minneapolis this year. No, that’s not a victory.\u00a0\u00a0 That’s an endless tragedy, and an indictment of Minneapolis’ long-term strategy of using the North Side and Phillips to warehouse the poor.\u00a0 No, the victory\u00a0 is buried in\u00a0this piece in the Strib\u00a0about the launch of a community program to combat the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12243,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12239\/revisions\/12243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}