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(USGovernment-News.Com, May 07, 2013 ) San Francisco, CA -- Ohio Senators Jim Hughes and Attorney General Mike DeWine announced the latest legislation he is backing, aimed at the reduction of gun crimes in their state. The two were joined by Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney Ron O'Brien, who presides over an office that has aggressively targeted those involved in gun crimes.
"During my first year in office as Ohio's Attorney General, it became shockingly clear that too many people were losing their lives to gun violence," said Attorney General DeWine. "We don't want to take guns away from law abiding citizens; instead we want to take the violent offenders away from the guns."
The Violent Career Criminal Act, if utilized, will change the reigning gun specification sentencing within laws, as well as increase certain penalties for those violent offenders of two or more violent crimes.
"This legislation is designed to go after the worst of the worst and take offenders off the streets who prey on women, children, and societies most vulnerable," said Senator Hughes. "Most of the violent crime that we see in Franklin County involves guns," said Franklin County Prosecutor O'Brien. "If we target those committing gun crimes, especially the violent career criminals, I believe we can both prevent and reduce crime."
Attorney General DeWine had formerly formed the Violent Crimes with Guns Advisory Group in 2011 in order to study the challenges that arise from gun crime logistics within Ohio. The group was also set to provide guidance to law enforcement and the legislature on precisely how to prevent gun crimes in the state.
The group looked to Ohio State University researcher Deanna Wilkinson, PhD, asking her to conduct an in-depth study of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and correction and BCL data, spanning from the mid-70s to 2010. In the study was found that those with more than one violent offenses makeup 0.91% of Ohio's overall adult population. That same percentage are also responsible for 57% of Ohio's violent felony convictions.
"It is really only a small percentage of people who are committing the majority of these very violent crimes, and the Violent Career Criminals Act targets those people," said DeWine.
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