I am a bit saddened that OJ’s freedom was now taken away for good from being in trouble with the law again, and learning from what happened in his downfall made me get inspired to bring you tips so that way you do not end up like what happened to O.J. Simpson – end up in prison.
Especially if you use a conceal-carry firearm (which a lot of jurisdictions allow these days).
I was a former fan of O.J., but when he ended up in the slammer, my days of me being a fan is over. His freedom is over.
I don’t want your freedoms to be over like him.
Basically, the lesson is this---
1. Even if you carry an official and current conceal carry firearms permit and a FOIC (Firearms
Owners’ Identification Card), using your gun with the intent to commit a crime except for
self-defense can cause your criminal charges to be escalated from what would be
misdemeanors to felonies. Very serious enough!
2. The Laurie Dann shooting spree, and more particularly, The Columbine High School massacre,
caused a widespread response by a lot of U.S. jurisdictions by making tougher penalties related to gun crimes.
3. Certain crimes committed while using a firearm (except in self-defense) are now
punished like those defendants who are convicted of hate crimes. That is, the original
offenses that are enhanced to hate-crime status can mean a much stiffer sentence as
the sentence will likely be enhanced. For example, in the state of Nevada, certain crimes
with a deadly weapon can, upon conviction, cause the original prison sentence to be
enhanced by 1-6 years (called “12 to 72 months enhancement” under the penal
codes of the state of Nevada, and some of the crimes that O.J Simpson were convicted
of got these enhanced sentences)
4. If OJ and his accomplice were to not have guns, the sentence for both O.J. Simpson and his
accomplice would have been much more palpable in 2008…..about 50 percent less
severe a prison sentence. I am guessing that O.J. could only face up to 6-8 years in
prison (instead of up to 16 years or more).
5. Remember that undercover police work is a way to help deter would-be criminals
from committing felonies and other major crimes, and if you do it, most likely
expect to meet up with unsuspecting people with a wire—even if you are not
informed that there will be one. And usually, if the person is an FBI informant,
they will not tell the criminals that he or she is one before the people who commit
the crimes eventually get arrested for. Sadly, Simpson’s robbery trial had very
damning evidence—the tapes and the informants with the wire—that caused him
to be convicted.
