Who wait a sec. I thought Massachusetts had some of the strictest anti-USA laws in the nation regarding guns. How could a shooting POSSIBLY have happened?
Does the article say thet the 14 year old was killed by a machine gun? I missed that part.
Maybe I’m missing something but I didn’t read in the article where the boy was gunned down by a licensed owner with an automatic weapon.
Amazing how low the anti-gunners will go. They’ll walk over the dead bodies of children to further their leftist agenda.
If they are talking about a full auto machine gun ban, well how many of those are in Mass to begin with? When you factor in the $200 FFL-3 license and the cost of the gun (since none have been made for the civilian market since 1986) you’re going to be paying 15 - 16 grand.
Me-thinks they are talking about banning semi-autos....
(Gov. Deval Patrick said the senseless shooting death of a teenage Boston honors student this weekend should prompt lawmakers to act on a stalled measure detailed in the Herald that would target machine gun ownership. )
This is why so many citizens hate politicians. I have read several news articles on this shooting and not a single one states that the weapon used was a machine gun. If it was not then what does this young mans death have to do with passing a machine gun law? The politician is just using the young mans death for political expediency. Besdies aren’t there more then enough FEDERAL LAWS covering the sale ownership and use of machine guns?
They never miss an opportunity to exploit a tragedy, to pass more ineffective, worthless laws, do they?
The little boy who killed himself with the UZI should never have been handed such a weapon. I’ve read that this was against the law there, so what difference would another law make?
Besides which, it was an epic fail on the part of his Father, the rangemaster, and so forth.
As far as the shooting cited in the lead goes, I hadn’t heard of that, but I also suspect yet another law would have made no difference, either.
Vote ‘em all out, and let’s start with a fresh batch of idiots...
Gun ownership isn't the problem. The culture that glorifies violence and protects the violent thugs is the problem.
Idiot libs don’t know the difference between a semi-automatic rifle and a fully automatic weapon.
I don’t call it “gun crime”-in fact many of these stories from the ‘hood involve beatings, stabbings, etc
I call it “nonwhite crime” 90-95% plus of the perps are nonwhite. There’s always a big hoo-ha about how high a percentage of the VICTIMS are-well, how about the perps?
That’s the “culture” they loudly brag about-when not trying to give some lame-ass excuses-Reagan’s fault, Bush’s fault, white flight, gentrification, blah blah blah
The Fed's have already prohibited machine gun ownership for all, but the most dedicated. I'll bet that Hillary Chabot doesn't know, which end of the weapon the round comes out.