Abington Murder

[vicpinto]

Oh, and your comment on MA gun owners eating their young. Why would I treat anyone different just because they OWN a gun legally? Scum comes in all shapes and sizes. I'd be a fool to stand behind him just because he owned a gun.

Well said. I'll "eat my young" anytime they act like this a**h***. I will not feel one bit of remorse or some kind of weird, twisted loyalty because he is a legal gun owner.

 

[MassMark]

It's comforting to have so many of you on the right side of an argument. I am constantly impressed and thank you for some of the most enlightening and simultaneously hilarious reading all week...

 

[jcr]

At the risk of moving this thread back towards its "title":

Victim's kin say spouse was controlling
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/04/25/victims_kin_say_spouse_was_controlling/

 

[PaulD]

I'm glad to read this part:

In a telephone interview, Police Chief David Majenski said he will not pursue charges against the victim's brother, who he said was licensed to own and carry firearms.

"I can't say that under the same circumstances, I wouldn't have done the same thing," the chief said. "I think that he did the right thing."

 

[Admin]

I'm glad to read this part:

+1 Very refreshing to read.

 

[Negotiator]

According to the press reports ( always "interesting" reading) the accused was a somewhat controlling individual, and sounds like a bit O/C to me. The 911 call report makes him out to have been calm and in control. Something in him broke, possibly, but we'll have to wait for the details to come out. Sounds like his wife was going to leave him because of his controlling ways. Maybe he'd been at the Vodka, something he admitted to loving...

Legal gun owner or not, if he was deranged enough to kill his spouse, he'd have found a way to do it with or without hand guns. Press loves to play up this type of domestic violence when it involves firearms. Poor woman.

Did anyone pick up on the Globe's hand gun reporting...i.e. "high powered .45" and the brother in laws "Palm sized .32"??? Size matters here, I guess, in the Globe's view.

 

[theGringo]

Did anyone pick up on the Globe's hand gun reporting...i.e. "high powered .45" and the brother in laws "Palm sized .32"??? Size matters here, I guess, in the Globe's view.

Mmmm Hmm. One story referred to the brother-in-law's "silver gun".

 

[Negotiator]

From "Drama of guns, rage, and death in Abington - Man held in wife's slaying; police thwart retaliation"
By John R. Ellement
Globe Staff / April 24, 2008


"Scolaro aimed his palm-sized .32 caliber at the back of Tassinari's head...

Plymouth County prosecutors say Tassinari killed his wife, a 29-year-old stay-at-home mother, using two high-powered .45-caliber handguns."

 

[the_doctor]

Very sad. But if he didn't even own a gun, the outcome in this case would probably have been murder. I would hope that even a rabid anti could see that logic (or perhaps not).

No one seem to tell the girl to knock it off, either.

Has anyone read between the lines on some of these news reports? The extended family was living in the neighborhood.

Some of them were taking care of the children while she was supposedly engaging in some flings.

There was also a big deal about her spending more money than they earned.

It sounded like a real pressure-cooker. I don't think that the family was helping at all, but ENCOURAGING THIS.

Bill

 

[the_doctor]

Scrivener, I too would like to draw your attention to the text of the Second Amendment as I see you doing a fair amount of cherry picking yourself. Of particular importance I would like to draw your attention to the part that states "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state" It seems to me that everybody who adopts the position in favor of a complete lack of firearms regulation seems to overlook this part. It is an important piece because it speaks to the founder's intent in granting the right to keep and bear. Therefore it could be reasoned, rather successfully that the founders only intended to grant the right for the purpose of keeping the militia. With this in mind it can therefore be reasoned

Do you understand that the militia is EVERY MALE IN TOWN?

In the old days people would actually think that they would muster in my town at the MUSTERFIELD in an event of an emergency. They were not a member of the National Guard or anything. The NG is only an invention of the 20th Century, too.

Bill

 

[the_doctor]

Don't hold your breath.

He announced his departure. Apparently this alleged law student could not handle well-framed arguments with citations to history and law........

Perhaps he attends a certain NON-accredited law school which had a 35% bar pass rate in 1993. I think the admission test was on the back of a matchbook:

Can you find the tort in this picture?

Sign up for Famous Lawyers School!

I think that they should incorporate the school within the UMASS system. All residents of the Commonwealth should be entitled to free legal education in order for themselves to have a chance in obtaining legal permission to endure the benefits of liberal socialism.

Bill

 

[vicpinto]

His MySpace account is now set to private. Too bad.

 

[theGringo]

His MySpace account is now set to private. Too bad.

Huh. Time for a "friend" request ...

 

[FeeBear]

Don't hold your breath.

He announced his departure. Apparently this alleged law student could not handle well-framed arguments with citations to history and law........

Perhaps he attends a certain NON-accredited law school which had a 35% bar pass rate in 1993. I think the admission test was on the back of a matchbook:

Can you find the tort in this picture?

Sign up for Famous Lawyers School!

You are my Hero.

 

[GSG]

Has this guy gone to trial yet?

 

[GSG]

Update:

http://www.wickedlocal.com/braintre...former-BHS-science-prodigy-shot-wife-18-times

Braintree — John Tassinari, an award-winning science prodigy and National Merit Scholar while he was a Braintree High School student, trembled and burst into tears in Brockton Superior Court on Oct. 20 as a prosecutor handed jurors an old color photograph of Tassinari’s wife – the woman he is accused of shooting 18 times in a jealous rampage.

It seems like a few more details are coming to light now. [sad2]

 

[Palladin]

that ain't good

 

[Trupo]

BROCKTON — John Tassinari stood in the Brockton courtroom where he had just been convicted of his wife’s murder, and where he was about to be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

LINK

I hope this piece of scum gets a nice train ride in the big house.