President Obama Continues Early Release of Armed Drug Traffickers

By Ammoland

Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)- As his adopted hometown of Chicago achieved another grim milestone for murders occurring in 2016, President Obama was busy adding to a record of his own:

felony offenders granted early release from prison under executive clemency.

According to the Washington Post, Obama commuted the sentences of 98 inmates last Thursday, bringing his overall tally during his time in office to 872.

This, the Post reported, is more than the combined number of his 11 predecessors in the White House!

While the administration insists the underlying offenses were all non-violent, the crimes themselves had been treated very seriously by the criminal justice system. Forty-two of the latest group of prisoners had been serving life sentences, most for drug trafficking crimes.

And as with previous such commutations – see our reports here and here – the prisoners were not only contributing to the general misery and social malaise caused by the illegal drug trade, many of them illegally used firearms to perpetrate or facilitate their drug-related felonies. …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand