It didn't take long after the horrific mass shooting in Sacramento for pundits, celebrities and keyboard warriors alike to call for more gun control. Yet the shooting happened in a state with some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the union.
How would any law restricting legal gun ownership have affected this tragedy? There isn't one... However, there are policies that could have prevented at least one of the suspects from participating in the slaughter:
"Smiley Allen Martin, the second man arrested in the wake of Sunday's mass shooting in Sacramento that killed six, has a criminal record stretching to 2013 and last year was the subject of a plea by Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert's office that he not win early release from prison, where he was serving a 10-year sentence for domestic violence and assault with great bodily injury.
Despite a two-page letter to the Board of Parole Hearings urging that Martin remain in custody, he won his release and was in Sacramento on Saturday night recording himself on a Facebook Live video brandishing a handgun hours before the shooting."
Sam Stanton, The Sacramento Bee via Corrections1
Martin has been arrested by Sacramento Police as a suspect in the shooting. He is being charged with possessing an illegal firearm and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. As a felon, Martin is already barred from owning any firearm. Thus, no new law would have prevented Martin from committing the crime.
However, cracking down on violent felons and preventing their early release would have prevented Martin from participating in the shooting.
Martin has a long history of extremely violent crimes, including robberies and viciously beating his girlfriend nearly to death after pimping her out as a prostitute.
The Sacramento DA's office vehemently opposed his parole, stating that "If he is released early, he will continue to break the law."
Let us know what you think of this in the comments below.
Wait for it! Ah, we need MORE gun control. Why are we not holding these “authorities “ accountable? They allowed a dangerous criminal back on the streets to terrorize and kill us. Isn’t there a mechanism to punish them for their reckless? Got to be a George Soros hiding there somewhere.
I just pull for these district attorneys and judges to be mass murdered by these upstanding citizens that they allow back on the street.
But the DA opposed his release'
It is way oast time that the people responsible for authorizing the release of violent criminals who commit yet another violent crime are considered complicit in the second crime and are punished for aiding and abetting. We need to put accountability into their jobs at such a level that they will reconsider letting violent criminals back on the streets.
those that allowed for his release shold now do the full time for the crimes he committed after he was released
Get rid of early release. No more early release for "good time." No more automatic release after only serving 1/3 of sentenced time. Criminals belong in prison, not released early.
THANK YOU. THESE KILLERS NEVER CHANGE. WHY DO PEOPLE IN CONGRESS HAVE ALL THESE PRIVATE COMPANYS PROTECTING THEM???WE THE TAX PAYERS PAY FOR THIS.
Bring back the death penalty. Working, tax-paying citizens shouldn't have to pay for these killers' upscaled time/life in prison.
CRIMINALS WILL GET GUNS EVERYWHERE. BUT THEY WILL KILL WITH ANYTHING. GUNS DO NOT KILL ,IT IS THE CRIMINALS WHO DO THE DEED. THEY WILL BEAT THEIR VICTIMS WITHOUT MERCY, ONLY KNOWING WE ENFORCE THE LAW AND BRINGING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY WILL STOP ALL THESE KILLINGS. AS LONG AS WE HAVE NO LAW AND ORDER THANKS TO THE BIDEN REGIME, CITIZENS WILL NOT BE SAVE. PLUS ALL THESE DRUGS THAT ARE LEGAL, ARE JUST AS BAD FOR OUR SAFETY.
Name the members of the parole board, their addresses, and the name and address of the judge that approved the release! They are all accessories in my opinion, THEY SHOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBLE!,
ABSOLUTELY
Those who released this mass murderer MUST SERVE LIFE IN PRISON. THEYRE COCONSPIRATORS, SO IS RACIST, BIGOT, TERRORIST OBAMA JUDGE.
Put parole board in prison.
YES YES
I think the people who released this guy early should be charged with aiding and abetting and given the appropriate sentence. Maybe if the judicial system would do their job then just maybe crime would go down. Maybe!.
I do not understand why liberals can not see the fact that it doesn’t matter what kind of control you put on violent criminals if they decide to kill they are going to kill whether it’s with a 9mm or a baseball bat or a kitchen knife. Just like in this case the problem was the fact a violent offender was let out of prison early even though the DA was saying do not let him out. Liberals has the face facts some people can not live outside of prison. The only place for them is a 8 X 10 prison cell. I am a retired Law Enforcement Officer and I have had guns my entire life. I raised 3 kids around guns and from the time they could walk and talk I taught them we do not touch a gun unless we were hunting deer. My guns nor have I killed or shot anybody. It’s a proven fact it’s not the guns fault, it’s the thugs that pull the trigger that kills. President Ronald Reagan said it best “we must hold people accountable” for their actions. Violating innocent Americans Constitutional Rights is not the answer. Holding criminals accountable, locking them up and using the death penalty in cases where needed is the answer. If liberal Democrats takes guns away from innocent Americans then those innocent Americans become victims. Democrats has got to wake up and see where the problem is!!
They see it they don’t care.
AMEN SIR! I agree all the way!!!!!
Logical thinking is foreign to those on the left when it comes to guns. They cannot understand that disarming a potential victim doesn't make them safer?
Go back tothe republicans For God sake 1everything with the Dems is money money money!! They all have been stealing the tax payers money so long that thats all they care about..Their children are protected and go to the best schools and eat the most exspinsive foods and buy the most exspinsive clothes and shoes All of them!! Our country is stupid and sick if you ask me to just whine and have to beg for things and let what is happening to AMerica!! GOD deliver us from evil in Washington ! In Jesus name! Amen
DEMOCRATS DO NOT CARE, JUST LOOK AT ALL THE DEMOCRAT RUN CITIES, TOTAL S**T HOLES. JUST EMBARRASSING. THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT FILLING THEIR POCKETS, EASY LIFESTYLE PAYED FOR BY THE TAX PAYERS. WE THE PEOPLE ARE FOOLS. TERM LIMITS ASAP.
WE WILL NEVER BE SAVE UNDER BUDENS REGIME..
If a person cannot live outside of prison, maybe that person shouldn't be allowed to live. Maybe it's time to cut our loss and stop supporting them. Just like BLM when they shoot hundreds of wild horses to thin out the herd so they don't starve during the winter, these criminals should be put down. Saves room, saves money, safer for the guards.
instead of release he should have gotten a Bullet
Exactly, some people cannot be rehabilitated. They want to be just plain bad and enjoy killing. Yes, they need the bullet. It wasn't the gun that killed, it was the person that pulled the trigger. How can CA people not understand that. The criminal will always find a way to get a gun. Homeowners need a gun (in the world the democrats made) to protect their families. Terrible misdirection of "protecting the rights of killers is not the answer."
THE CHINESE USED TO MAKE THE FAMILIES PAY FOR THE BULLET, NO CUDDLING THE CRIMINALS.
Well I hate saying it but we the people are to blame if we allow these dictators to get away with realseing felons on to our streets.. we believe in justice for all .,.how about the victims....It really looks like we need to go back to wild wild west..
Eye for. Eye
The entire Parole Board must resign or thrown out today.💔
This is what is happening in this country, our judges are wimps & don't care about the citizens of this country. The are not immune some day one of their own family members could be hurt or killed.
All the people responsible for this subhuman barbaric scumbag early release must go to jail and finish scumbags term. Bet the parole board would rethink this killers release.
Who was the Dem D-bag that let this happen?
MOST LIKLEY MOST OF THEM. THEY ARE AGAINST ANYTHING DECENT AND GOOD. JUST LOOK AT OUR COUNTRY, VOTE REPUBLICAN IF YOU CARE ABOUT LAW AND ORDER.
It's liberal California. This is what happens with liberals on parole boards. The criminals will be given chance after chance. The "He only made a mistake" philosophy permeates the liberal bleeding heart mindset.
CRIMINALS MAKE NO MISTAKES. THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE, LAZY AND SICK INVIDUALS, THEY WILL NEVER CHANGE, DOES A LEOPARD CHANGE HIS SPOTS???
Maybe Parole Board needs to be held accountable. Hate to say it but we need more prisons and we need to start using death sentence and carry out that sentence right after sentencing.
A study was done about mass shootings (where 4 or more are shot) and they found that 94% of mass shootings are performed in gun free zones. CA is one of the liberal states where it is hard to get a carry permit. If someone with a permit to carry had been there maybe the results would have been different.
death by hanging bring it back swiftly
Here is my idea. The parole board releases a violent criminal and he commits another violent crime, then the police can shoot him on sight plus the parole board (whoever voted to let him loose on society) can go to jail to serve out the rest of his sentence. I'm sure it won't be too hard to get another parole board appointed.
People it’s not the gun but the thug or mental case behind it. I’ve had a old shotgun for 56 years and to date it’s not shot one person on its own. In the old west they were called Gunslingers today it’s not the slinger it’s the gun how damn stupid he we fallen over the years.