No serious discussion about violent crime can morally be had without discussing the need for harsher sentences for violent felons. Consider this story from 19th Ward
Parolee charged in ‘heartless’ mass shooting outside Portage Park bar, top cop announces. Supt. David Brown on Tuesday said Samuel Parsons-Salas carried out the cold-blooded attack after being asked to leave a party for the bar owner’s niece.
By Tom SchubaA recently-paroled felon was charged Tuesday with killing three people and critically wounding another outside a Portage Park bar, where the city’s top cop said he carried out the “heartless” attack after being asked to leave a party for the owner’s niece.
That description really does not tell the truth about what a piece of filth Samuel Parsons-Salas is though, here is more
After a “disturbance” at the party, Parsons-Salas was asked to leave, Brown said. He was then caught on surveillance video getting a gun from a vehicle and opening fire during a subsequent confrontation.
Graphic video of the shooting that was shared with the Sun-Times shows a crowd gathering in the street before a gunman begins picking people off, apparently targeting some victims twice and at point-blank range. The video appears to show the shooter get into the passenger side of a dark SUV that drives away.
Mariah Vera, the bar owner’s niece who was hosting the party, had rushed to her father’s side, weeping over him and trying to tend to his wounds when the shooter walked up and shot her in the head, a law enforcement source said.
Vera, 25, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition. Brown said she was “fighting for her life.” Her father, Ricky Vera, 50, was pronounced dead at the scene outside his brother’s bar.
Two of Mariah Vera’s friends were also killed: Mercedes Imari, a 24-year-old mother of a young boy and infant twins; and Mario Pozuelos, 26, a “beloved son, brother, nephew [and] cousin,” according to a GoFundMe page launched to cover his funeral costs.
So, a “recently-paroled felon”, who apparently had no trouble getting a weapon, murdered three people, in cold blood. Why was an obviously dangerous out, walking around? What crimes had he committed to become a felon?
Parsons-Salas has a lengthy criminal background and has served multiple prison stints.
In January 2014, he was charged in a deadly home invasion in Albany Park in which two people were shot to death, according to the defunct neighborhood news outlet DNAinfo Chicago. Parsons-Salas initially faced two counts of first-degree murder, but he pleaded guilty to two counts of armed home invasion, carrying eight-year prison sentences.
Parsons-Salas has also been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to charges of robbery and aggravated battery on a police officer, records show.
YET, he was out and slaughtered three people. This is happening all over the country, YET, dangerous people keep getting light sentences, or are allowed to plead down. And more people get hurt, or worse. That is not justice, that is evil frankly.