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Feel safer? Easier To Get Parole, Harder To Buy Bullets
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Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democratic Legislature have a unique plan to enhance public safety in California. They have reduced the state prison population from close to 150,000 in 2010 to 113,000 now by downgrading what crimes put an offender in prison. Now they are pushing a ballot measure that would enable repeat serious and violent offenders to qualify for early release — to further reduce the state prison population. No worries, though, because they also are passing laws that make it harder or costlier for everyone to buy guns and ammunition. |
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| I've no regrets for moving out of Cali in 2015. All our local news, Kern County, broadcast that homicides went up 87% a few years ago; 2012 or 2013, as a direct result of prison releases. Story is now absent from the internet, gone, poof, erased, ... |
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