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Originally Posted by Wizzo
That's not what RICO is about, unless the dealer primarily sold his guns to solely commit crimes and the buyers were aware of that and chose to use him because of it.
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Wizzo, was great chatting with you, as always. We agree this guy was a dirtbag and could have been put away for the same 20 years without extending RICO... Extending RICO from my POV is much too big a danger when other more narrow rules would have worked better.
As you saw from our discussion... prosecutors could use this precedent to dragnet in a lot of people for very small infractions and hammer them with massive penalties. That is not a good way to run a legal system. We ought to have very narrow laws with massive penalties and very little gray area for selective enforcement or overzealous prosecutors.
This gets the right job done in ONE case but puts a very dangerous new tool in the toolbox of prosecutors who did not need it.
