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.
Just another megalomaniac with a badge.
I bet the fascist Evans and his so-called “officers” aren’t giving up any of THEIR personal shotguns and rifles.
Evans is a disgrace to the spirit of the Minutemen, the guys responsible for the “shot heard ‘round the world” on April 19, 1775. The Minutemen must be turning over in their graves everytime some petti-tyrant like Evans shoots off his mouth.
So, if there is no need to possess a rifle or a shotgun, is the inference that handguns are okay and acceptable?
“For the most part, nobody in the city needs a shotgun, nobody needs a rifle,
Good , Then Neither do the POLICE
When I watched the Boston police department’s operations after the marathon bombings I knew Boston was not a constitutional city. Forcing homeowners from their homes at gunpoint was a travesty. I don’t care what the motivation. If these guys would have robbed a bank and killed and wounded people would this type of manhunt be justified? If I were one of the residents forced from my home, I think I would have brought a lawsuit. Why am I not hearing of any?
...said the armed-to-the-teeth police commissioner.
Apparently, they're good subjects over in Mass. They'll make wonderful slaves, too.
The fascist Northeast elites are terrified of patriots owning rifles. They simply don’t have the martial skills to go up against a determined patriot force who can shoot the nose off a fascist pig at 500 meters. Their 2.1 billion rounds of “cop-killer” bullets with an effective range of 50 meters will be useless.
I'd bet a lot of Freepers could live with that...
There are so few people who play professional baseball, we should close Fenway park.
The cowards wouldn’t have the guts to use them as shown by their cowardly “cower in place”.
I really do feel for this Commissioner.
It is after all, difficult to be King...
How about for the next time the SWAT wants to do an undeclared martial law to find one 19 year old?
The "Need" is pretty clearly spelled out in the Second Amendment.
It's not the Bill of Needs.
They can't hit anything anyway.
They fired thousands of rounds during the bombing episode and I believe the only injury we know of, was one of the bombers, and I am pretty sure he was killed when his brother ran over him, while escaping.
If one gun is justified, they all are.
A damned up armored hum-vee for civilian police.
They don’t think the Second Amendment really ever applies. But the right to armed security applies wherever elites happen to go.
Hope yer good.
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