This is why the NRA ...

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... needs to stop pedaling this particular tricycle:

Since Florida has tied firearms to minimum sentencing laws, the real reason Marissa Alexander will sit in a jail cell for the next 20 years is because of gun control legislation, whether the media wants to admit it or not.

In the effort to show how 'tough' they are about those who misuse firearms in crime they've made it easy for folks to be subject to unreasonable sentences just because they used a gun.

Trust me, the victim of an aggravated assault cares not whether a gun of a big stick was used.

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