Courts should be slow to order any degree of concurrency between sentences for drug trafficking and aggravated firearms offences, even where the offences arise from a single course of criminal conduct, because the choice to combine drug trafficking with firearms possession is deliberate and must be strongly deterred. The starting range for street-level methamphetamine trafficking remains four to seven years imprisonment.
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