"The criminals have stolen our vehicles, our costumes, our sound equipment, our makeup, and with these same tools we use to work, they use them to commit robberies".
"Jose Pimentel engaged in a plot to build improvised explosive devices and use them to commit acts of violent jihad," Mr. Vance said in a statement on Wednesday.
And he called for tougher penalties for buying guns illegally or for using them to commit crimes, as well as for uniform licensing standards across the state.
Taylor's crime, and the basis of his conviction, was providing arms to a group he knew were using them to commit atrocities.
Minister Maroni instead claims he is protecting minors from adults who use them to commit crimes, thus insinuating, not for the first time, that all Roma are criminals.
Even after a young man in Colorado buys 6,000 rounds by mail order and uses them to commit mass murder, it is the rare politician who proposes to make the tools of terror slightly harder to obtain.
Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, an influential conservative leader, said in a statement that "it is clear that criminals will always find ways to acquire weapons and use them to commit acts of violence".
They said politicians needed to focus on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill; making sure that people who have illegal guns and use them to commit crimes are properly punished; and improving security in schools.
Reducing violence in the short term, said Holder, required getting guns out of the hands of those most likely to use them to commit crimes – primarily young black men.
Similarly, the White House urged Congress to pass pending legislation that would enforce criminal penalties for "identity theft" -- stealing someone's Social Security number, credit card numbers or other identifiers and using them to commit a crime, like credit card fraud.
