Debate Magazine
The Chicago Tribune reports
Guns
are sometimes recovered during traffic stops but officers got a
surprise this week when the “gunman” was a 3-year-old girl in the East
Garfield Park neighborhood.
When confronted by police the girl dropped the weapon safely and wasn't harmed, but an adult in the car was arrested.
Queshawn
King, 19, was charged with
felony unlawful use of a weapon for having a loaded weapon inside the
vehicle, misdemeanor endangering the life and health of a child, and
misdemeanor possession of a firearm without a valid FOID card, police
said.
Well they sure threw the book at this guy? What could account for the incredible disparity in charging between this case and some of the others we look at? How often do we see no charges when kids shoot each other with daddy's gun and end up dead? Yet, in this case with no one injured they seem to be taking it so seriously.
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