Posted on 07/25/2014 1:57:31 PM PDT by pabianice
Massachusetts:
This Wednesday, Boston Police Commissioner Bill Evans went on Boston Public Radio to discuss how he wanted the anti-gun discretionary provision restored in Senate Bill 2265 so that he could strip law-abiding gun owners of their rights to possess rifles and shotguns in Boston. Completely out of touch with reality, Evans stated:
“For the most part, nobody in the city needs a shotgun, nobody needs a rifle, and I don’t know a lot of people who are into hunting who, being lifelong residents, would actually want that who lives in the city, but, especially here in the city I want to have discretion over who’s getting any type of gun because public safety is my main concern and as you know it’s an uphill battle taking as many guns off the street right now without pumping more into the system.”
Click here to hear more during hour two of the show.
Statements like this are exactly the reason the state legislature should not grant an issuing authority discretion in the issuance of FID cards. Personal bias is not enough to strip a law-abiding gun owner of their constitutional right to keep and bear arms, and it is critical that the discretionary provision remain out of the conference committee report.
Please continue making phone calls and sending e-mails, urging your state Senator and Representative to put pressure on leadership to retain the Senate changes made to S.2265 and to report a clean bill from the conference committee that does not infringe on your Second Amendment rights. Your action today could make all the difference.
Then neither do the police, government body guard, or any fed agency.
The “Need” is up to every American to decide for herself or himself.
Not the Mayor or city council.
Exactly - if there is no “need”, then there is no need for any gov’t agent to have one either.
So the Boston PD is getting rid of all their rifles and shotguns?
“NO NEED FOR A RIFLE OR SHOTGUN IN BOSTON”
Error in title - please allow me to correct:
NO NEED FOR BOSTON
There, that’s better.
Patiently waiting till the NRA haters arrive.......
It’s a Bill of Rights, not a bill of needs.
Really? If there were no rifles there would be no Boston.
Epic stupidity ...
He has completely dishonoured himself ...
Seppuku.
It’s the only way.
Typical of liberals, deciding what individuals need and don’t need, and then enforcing it.
The Second Amendment only applies where politicians decide there is a need?
Bump that!
So the Boston PD is getting rid of all their rifles and shotguns?
And their MRAPS and Military gear? Would they be willing to give those up too?
The Second Amendment is a trip wire. The moment a government says that the right to bear arms needs to go is the very moment that that government needs to go.
In my grand plan as part of mASSachusettes, Boston goes back to the King along with a host of other North Eastern states.
Boston has come a long way since 1765....in the wrong direction.
great, if that’s true, disarm the cops of theirs. nobody will have them so the cops sure as hell won’t need them.
he has no honor. he won’t.
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