Gun control laws can stop killing and mayhem.
If only people would obey them.
Then we could all live in Kumbayah.
Liberal GFW's should just pass a law declaring it illegal to disobey other laws.
Posted on 04/22/2013 6:09:28 AM PDT by Gamecock
The two brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings, who police say engaged in a gun battle with officers early Friday after a frenzied manhunt, were not licensed to own guns in the towns where they lived, authorities said on Sunday.
But neither brother appears to have been legally entitled to own or carry firearms where they lived, a fact that may add to the national debate over current gun laws.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, who was killed in the shootout with police, would have been required to apply for a gun license with the local police department where he lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
But there is no record of him having done so, according to Cambridge Police Department spokesman Dan Riviello.
Even if he had earlier received a gun license from somewhere outside Cambridge, that license would have to be registered with Cambridge police upon becoming a resident of the city, Riviello said. In Massachusetts, gun licenses are issued by municipal police departments.
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Honestly, some people are educated way beyond their intelligence.
They had unlicensed guns?
How can that be?
oh for Heaven’s sake, who the folk cares
I have a license for pressure cookers . . . I went to classes and got my CCPC, but I still can't carry 4-Quart (military grade) cookers.
Criminals and terrorists illegally in possession of guns. Who would have thought?
No way! Evildoers who had no problem with setting up pressure cooker bombs in a crowded area of Boston were not deterred from owning guns becuase they were in violation of the local gun laws? Who would’ve thunk it???
Did they have a license for Jihad?
What provisions in Obama’s gun-grabber proposals would have kept these Muslim militants from getting illegal guns?
I wonder how many terrorists, criminals, illegal aliens out there have “registered” weapons or have gone to authorities to have their weapons registered???
I’m sure if Obama says they must all register their weapons that there will be a mad rush to do so...
How stupid can this get????
Cambridge Police Department spokesman Dan Riviello
does not have valid brain license
If Massachusetts only had a law requiring terrorists to have valid licenses, that would have stopped the terror cell from being able to carry out the bombing!
So we can add unlicensed carry to “manufacture and transport of an explosive device resulting in death”, eh? Another year MANDATORY!
Seems like we need tougher laws against mass murder, terrorism and bombing first.
But no... This is merely another excuse for trying to shift it back to 'we need more gun laws.'
But neither brother appears to have been legally entitled to own or carry firearms where they lived, a fact that may add to the national debate over current gun laws.
Only the liberal mind (and the bias of this journalist) could come up with this response.
Well, if the bombing doesn't get him the death penalty, having a unlicensed handgun in Boston surely will...
“How stupid can this get????”
If you consider that the point is to get any gun law passed, squeeze the good guys just a bit more, then it’s not so stupid. It’s including an emergent event into your propaganda.
The older brother had a domestic violence charge as well. He probably wasn’t going to legally get any sort of gun.
All the more reason why the gun grabbing bill should have been voted down last week. Because no criminal is going to submit to a background check in the first place. Why? Because they will get their guns illegally.
Gun control laws can stop killing and mayhem.
If only people would obey them.
Then we could all live in Kumbayah.
Liberal GFW's should just pass a law declaring it illegal to disobey other laws.
And a great job disarming the average citizen, leaving them helpless....
Criminal laws are like restraining orders; they are merely paper, and the police exist to pick up the bodies after the laws are ignored.
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