Police chief, critics at odds over licensing 'essay'

FoxNews.com ^ | 1/25/2016 | Fox News

[SargeK]

Critics are blasting a Massachusetts city’s new law that they claim requires residents applying for a license to carry handguns to write “an essay” and pay upwards of $1,100 for training.

[SargeK]

Libs like to talk about 'disparate impact'. Writing an essay and paying more than $1,100.00 to exercise your Second Amendment rights are as blatantly racist as Jim Crow poll taxes and literacy tests.

Come to think of it, those were Democratic party policies too, so there's that.

[556x45]

Well, I dont see the problem. Since they voted for it they need to shutup and embrace the suck. You have your utopia now enjoy it. For those pondering an escape N please dont. We dont want you.

[Read Write Repeat]

[Celtic Conservative]

Shall. Not. Be. Infringed.

Liberals, what part of the above phrase don’t you understand?

CC

[Scrambler Bob]

Write with your finger, using your own blood.

This is after you ask the bad guy to wait while you open your safe.

[Little Pig]

A large percentage of the people who want to apply for a license most likely did not vote for such restrictions. Unfortunately, such people are vastly outnumbered in MA by idiots who go into a panic at the mere mention of the word “gun”.

[duffee]

Will the applicant be denied for poor grammar, punctuation or penmanship? What if the essay contains content that is critical of those who would require citizens to jump through hoops or pay to exercise a right? What if said applicant in his essay compared taxes on firearms, ammunition and this ridiculous and exorbitant license fee to a poll tax?

[Cyman]

As bad are the rules put out by the Sheriff of Imperial County California where a letter from a local LEO MUST be submitted in support of your CCW request. AND even though the area is rich with DEA, ICE, BP, and CDC officers they are specifically NOT defined as acceptable LEOs.

[Scrambler Bob]

Then he is mentally ill.

Catch .45

[556x45]

Ya know, I bet youre mostly wrong. MA is easily the E coast bastion of liberal slobbering stupidity. They just cant hep themselves when it comes time to vote, its D all the way. However, that doesnt mean they dont like guns. Nope, liberals buy plenty of guns. Their problem with guns is that you can have them too. Does it make sense? Nope, but thats the liberal insanity...

[Mechanicos]

Close but use the 2nd instead. Or quote the cases other cities have lost with the amounts they had to pay the lawyers of the armed citizens.

[cyclotic]

I own a fully automatic high capacity assault caulk gun.

It’s battery powered, runs continuously on a simple pull of a trigger and accepts 20 oz caulk tubes, twice the average caulk tube.

I’ve also got an arsenal of fully automatic foam guns, both handgun and rifle size. I routinely drive around with 6-8 of them in the car, along with almost limitless reloads.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
Stop Infringing on My Second Amendment Rights
Or I’ll Sue

[Oshkalaboomboom]

This is nothing new in Massachusetts. Over 20 years ago I tried to buy a gun in Tewksbury, MA and was told I would have to apply to the police chief and wait for permission before I could pick it up, which would be done at the chief’s discretion and by his own timetable. The dangerous weapon I was trying to buy was a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun.

[LeonardFMason]

Stone cold loser in court. How quickly can a lawsuit be filed?

[Read Write Repeat]

2A should more than suffice.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

I didn't vote for any of this crap, and I think I will escape to greener pastures when the opportunity presents itself (luckily for me, I live in a pretty rural, conservative down, so the full suck of MA hasn't affected me as much as most).

Don't worry though, I'm going somewhere better than New Hampshire :p

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

:Stone cold loser in court."

It should be, but there is a town (Beverly or Wellesley I think) that has for years required to you present a note from your doctor proving that he/she approves of you applying for a permit.

[archy]

Stop Infringing on My Second Amendment Rights
Or I'll Sue

We might do a little better than that:

18 United States Code, U.S. Criminal Code, Section 241 -

Conspiracy against rights

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or

If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—

They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Long prison sentences would definitely be preferable.