New York Metropolis’s upside-down justice system is sending a 67-year-old man to jail for 4 years for proudly owning unlicensed weapons — whereas rapists, stabbers and serial gropers go free.
Charles Foehner was on his method again from shopping for cigarettes within the wee hours of a Might 2023 morning when Cody Gonzalez, 32, a profession prison with 15 prior arrests and a historical past of psychological sickness, confronted him.
Foehner says Gonzalez demanded cash and cigarettes; surveillance video exhibits a swaying Gonzalez then cost at Foehner with what he mistook for a knife, however turned out to be a pen.
Foehner shot Gonzalez within the chest a number of instances, then known as 911.
The aged man will spend 4 years in jail after taking a plea deal to keep away from getting as much as 25 — not for the self-defense killing, which the district legal professional didn’t cost him on, however for the roughly 30 unlawful weapons Foehner was maintaining in his dwelling, which he claims he accrued in response to crime fears.
There’s little excuse for having an arsenal of unlawful weapons, and Foehner ought to undoubtedly face some punishment.
However why any jail for a senior citizen with no priors? Positive, confiscate his weapons, high quality him, put him on probation and warn that reoffending will imply exhausting time.
Foehner’s nearly actually not an ongoing hazard to himself or others — not like all too many violent repeat offenders who get lower unfastened with zero jail and even jail time, time and again.
Take a look at the monster who was let go on the situation that he bear mental-health remedy after he lured a 14-year-old to his condominium and raped her in 2023, solely to tug the identical sick stunt with a 15-year-old this yr.
Or the sicko who bought simply 10 years probation and an order to attend a sex-offender remedy program for raping a lady he met on Tinder.
Or the menace with a historical past of random assaults who was lower unfastened on supervised launch after he stabbed a stranger on a Bronx prepare in September, solely to slash one other man within the face the very subsequent month.
Or the cabbie who Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg declined to prosecute after he was accused of groping two ladies behind his automobile.
How did all of those true threats to society get lighter punishments than a man who had unlawful weapons in his home for many years, and seemingly solely used one as soon as for his personal self-protection?
Gonzalez himself was a repeat offender who’d seemingly be alive at present if the system had executed its job and both jailed him or pressured him into remedy for his psychological sickness.
Different blue cities undergo the identical pro-crime lunacy; in Chicago, a madman with 71 prior arrests set a younger girl using the prepare on hearth, prompting even lefty Mayor Brandon Johnson to name it “an absolute failure of our prison justice” and “psychological well being establishments.”
A realization that comes too late for the sufferer who’s combating for her life.
Severe criminals unleashed repeatedly on the unsuspecting public, whereas those that attempt to defend themselves get locked up: Such is the progressive perversion of “justice.”
