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Former Cape & Islands state senator urges overhaul of gun laws (confiscation)
Barnstable Patriot ^ | 4/14/17 | Flanary

Posted on 04/14/2017 12:35:07 PM PDT by pabianice

A former Cape and Islands state senator on Tuesday called for a movement to purge “as many guns out of society as possible,” and pushed for a sweeping overhaul of gun laws.

“The first thing to do is stop manufacturing and selling them, and the second thing to do is have a very lucrative buyback-and-confiscation program,” Dan Wolf, a Harwich-based Democrat who served three terms with the Massachusetts Legislature, said at a Grandmothers Against Gun Violence meeting.

Wolf, the CEO of the independent regional airline Cape Air and a past gubernatorial candidate, was invited by the nonprofit organization to speak at Cape Cod Synagogue in Hyannis. He urged attendees to pursue civil disobedience beyond organized marches, noting his own prior arrests for what he called “passive, nonviolent resistance.”

“My plea to you is you have to make it an existential issue for the politicians, you have to block the halls to their office,” Wolf said. “There’s nothing more attractive than an old woman getting arrested,” he added, a remark that drew laughs from the grandmother-dominated crowd.

This year alone, there have been almost 15,000 incidents of gun violence in America, according to the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive. Since 2014, 346 people have been killed by guns in Massachusetts. Yet while fewer people are fatally shot here than anywhere else in the country, enough cases exist to reflect “a desperate state of cyclical poverty” which must be confronted before widespread gun violence can be addressed, Wolf said. Part of that should involve busing students into Cape Cod during the summer, he added, which would both satisfy youth unemployment and provide businesses with adequate seasonal help in lieu of using H-2B visa workers from overseas.

“I know what a scourge this is,” Judith Page of Sandwich, who attended the meeting, told the Barnstable Patriot. “I think he certainly is admirable in what he’s trying to do, but that’s going to take a whole lot more people to start feeling like that and willing to run for office, which is hard to do.”

Grandmothers Against Gun Violence formed in 2013 after the shooting deaths of children and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Connecticut. “We are not political; we are for safety,” said Kathleen Glueck, the group’s former president and grandmother of a student who attended Sandy Hook.

The group’s next featured speaker, on May 2, will be Attorney General Maura Healey, who last year announced her office’s crackdown on the ban on assault weapons and sales of copycat guns.

For more information, visit the organization’s website at capecodgag.org.


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Poverty causes gun violence? Wolf is an idiot.
1 posted on 04/14/2017 12:35:07 PM PDT by pabianice
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Does his audience seriously believe that they, or anyone else, will get away with blocking government offices......once the last of the firearms have been wrested from the hands of the people?


2 posted on 04/14/2017 12:39:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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It’s a small world. I was born and raised in Barnstable county and my dad was the owner of Cape and Islands Real Estate, a one-man show he ran for 30 years.

I also had a distant relative who was also a past owner of Cape Air airlines and did some jail time for some sort of fraud he committed there. So being CEO of Cape Air doesn’t impress me.

Maybe this guy forgets the history of the Plimouth colony where every family had a musket.


3 posted on 04/14/2017 12:44:11 PM PDT by poconopundit
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if the ‘HiAnus’ Libs ever try and confiscate our guns they had better bring the Army . They’ll need it


4 posted on 04/14/2017 12:46:34 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: pabianice

The world’s biggest lies:
The check is in the mail.
I love you, no sh#t.
Nobody wants to take away your guns.


5 posted on 04/14/2017 12:46:49 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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Why doesn’t Dan Wolf block the entrances to NRA headquarters in northern Virginia?


6 posted on 04/14/2017 12:48:58 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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Everybody who owns a gun should march right over to his office and give it to him.


7 posted on 04/14/2017 12:53:37 PM PDT by TigersEye (Make up my mind, NBC,CBS,CNN,ABC. What are the "facts" today?)
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To: pabianice; SeekAndFind; LucyT; Rennes Templar; Whenifhow; GregNH; null and void; KC_Lion; ...
This is a hotter issue today than anyone realizes. As we begin to wake up to the fact that Trump is going to disappoint us in re-establishing Constitutional control over government, we need to understand clearly that none of our rights are fixed or well defended.

Each state should be moved to establish a State Second Amendment Militia, admitting every citizen driver's license holder as an active duty militia member with full privileges to own, carry, and conceal any weapon normally available to a US Army field platoon. Each member shall have the right, power and authority to maintain and own as extensive a full range of ammunition and supplies for such weapons as appropriate in the sole discretion of such member.

To the extent legislation can be promoted to this end, it will serve as a significant obstacle to the confiscation and control objectives of the national government and its controllers.

8 posted on 04/14/2017 12:57:41 PM PDT by David
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and the second thing to do is have a very lucrative buyback-and-confiscation program

Lucrative for whom? The cops who will have their pick of pieces that have been confiscated?

"Yeah...here's your $25 gift card to Whole Foods. Now gimme that Colt Python."

9 posted on 04/14/2017 1:03:11 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Those are just the “G” rated ones.


10 posted on 04/14/2017 1:05:04 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
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Grandmothers Against Gun Violence, I wonder what they have to say about the criminals? Are they against them as well (I hope)?


11 posted on 04/14/2017 1:05:19 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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we need to understand clearly that none of our rights are fixed or well defended.

Our rights are fixed. We are endowed by our Creator with essential human rights. Governments may try to limit or infringe on them but they are firmly fixed within the hearts and minds of men.

Though, I will agree with the second part of your premise.

12 posted on 04/14/2017 1:08:40 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
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The first thing to do is stop manufacturing and selling them
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Well, MA has done a pretty good job of that, most gun manufacturers have left. Many are not allowed to sell their guns in MA.


13 posted on 04/14/2017 1:15:30 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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Yes we all know that guns cause poverty. I spend all my money on guns and ammo and am always broke.


14 posted on 04/14/2017 1:28:54 PM PDT by atomic_dog
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To: David; null and void; KC_Lion; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; TWhiteBear; WildHighlander57; Velveeta; ..

Check out article and esp. # 8 .

Thanks, David.

15 posted on 04/14/2017 1:29:02 PM PDT by LucyT (>>>>Those who seek to DISARM US, seek to HARM US.<<<<)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Doubtful, they’re most likely the same grandmothers seen on the news, “why did he have to die? He was a good boy, getting it together, going back to school, turning his life around.” I wish these grandmothers had as much compassion for the victims of their “good boy” grandsons.


16 posted on 04/14/2017 1:37:29 PM PDT by kalee
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It is so shameful that the state that was once the cradle of liberty is now the petri dish of subordination.


17 posted on 04/14/2017 2:19:58 PM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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Interesting. Cape Air is the only airline servicing Cape Girardeau, MO. I have thought about the advantages of using the service rather than the 2-hour drive and long-term parking in St Louis. I guess I’ll keep driving.


18 posted on 04/14/2017 2:25:06 PM PDT by hanamizu
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Poverty causes gun violence?

Confiscation causes gun violence.

19 posted on 04/14/2017 2:36:41 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Governments may try to limit or infringe [essential human rights] but they are firmly fixed within the hearts and minds of men.

Unfortunately, it seems prudent to understand that concept is subject to generational trends. See, for instance, the increasingly progressive university complex and the recent majority popular vote for what was a quite obviously unqualified presidential candidate, H. Clinton.

Davids concept of establishing Second Amendment Militia's has merit just on the face of it and could be an important element of any Article V convention.

The states could accomplish the action of their own volition, of course, while the Article V aspect would tie it unmistakenly to the 2Ad and place it beyond the federal judiciary.

20 posted on 04/14/2017 3:41:26 PM PDT by frog in a pot (Political Correctness: defining what speech, thoughts and attitudes are acceptable.)
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