For safer streets, give women guns...

Boston Globe ^ | 8/22/2002 | By Jeff Jacoby

[vannrox]

A PICTURE on the front of The Boston Globe's City & Region section last week showed a group of women waiting to apply for firearm identification cards at the District 14 police station in Brighton. They were in a line, the accompanying news story noted, that stretched the length of two corridors. By the time a reporter arrived to interview the applicants, some of them had been standing in that line for more than two hours.

[vannrox]

In Boston... our reality.

[NoCurrentFreeperByThatName]

Hey, Lady! Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

[45Auto]

[dpa5923]

The hundreds of women applying for firearm ID cards aren't planning on getting guns. They merely want to arm themselves with mace or pepper spray, and under Massachusetts law even that requires a gun permit.

Under Massachusetts law, ordinary citizens have no right to carry a firearm for self-protection.

Pure Insanity.

[Euro-American Scum]

Pure Insanity.

Welcome to America 2002. And just wait until the Klintonistas get back in the White House.

[fight_truth_decay]

lets just say last time an illegal immigrant was detained in Boston (just visiting from Canada of course) and driving an unregistered motor vehicle..the liberal academian nuts rose to his cause..why arent they on the streets protecting the good women of Boston!!!

[Rollee]

It's a reality in the People's Republic of Chicago, too. King Richard doesn't want anybody armed, except of course, his bodyguards. The aldermen get to carry as well. But us poor schmucks? Oh, noooooooooo!

I particularly like this remark from Ms. Burns: ''Living in a high-crime area is just not enough of a reason to get an unrestricted license to carry.''

What will she say or do if she is ever unlucky enough to be assualted? Stupid b****. Who is she to speak for others?? (Note to self: turn blood boiling mechanism off now.)