****Breakjng**** Multiple People Shot in Winthrop MA

[MagGus1820]

Openly racist white guy guns down 2 blacks in an almost exclusively White community. Thats the Lefts dream headline. It FINALLY happened. He and his wife were also Leftists. This is the only reason this was buried.
-The average American has no idea what a Bagram is
-No one cares about a 4th world hellhole president getting offed.
-Locals have no control over whether the media runs with a story or not and neither do attorneys. They can try to make noise and the media can choose to ignore them or if they cant, paint them as unhinged, racist or whatever else they choose.

The only reason for the lack of media follow-through that makes sense to me is their political affiliation was left of center and too easy to verify. Every other aspect of this was the Left's perfect scenario. I cant recall where but there was another shooting where people later posted a pic of the shooters fridge with Obama stickers/magnets on it and that died out as well.

Almost all of these unhinged people are lefties. The left is the more emotional side, which makes sense, they make irrational and crazy decisions.

 

[AHM]

-Locals have no control over whether the media runs with a story or not and neither do attorneys. They can try to make noise and the media can choose to ignore them or if they cant, paint them as unhinged, racist or whatever else they choose.

The only reason for the lack of media follow-through that makes sense to me is their political affiliation was left of center and too easy to verify. Every other aspect of this was the Left's perfect scenario. I cant recall where but there was another shooting where people later posted a pic of the shooters fridge with Obama stickers/magnets on it and that died out as well.

I didn't scour the record, but were the handguns legally possessed?
If so, it doesn't exactly cast Winthrop PD's "suitability" "discretion" in a good light.
Which would contribute to the slow-walking of any final reports...


NES seldom considers the smattering of dumpster-fire applicants denied by green towns
because we are fixated on legit applicants denied by red towns.
Many of the applicants denied by green towns may be PP's anyhow.
(God knows when the wind's blowing from the right quarter,
we get about one of them per fortnight in the Mass Laws subforum).
Denying them is not a Chief's fault.

But I haven't seen anyone here deny the truism that
every LEO working a town or precinct knows the "frequent fliers"
who keep causing all the domestic calls.
That doesn't justify police getting the right to investigate applicants
to see if they're "self-radicalized(*) anti-Semites"
who are careening towards becoming active shooters.
But it's the facade that suitability hangs upon.

(*) I wonder if they autopsied the shooter's brain...
You don't have to have a rapidly-growing tumor
to become an emergent anti-Semite,
but sometimes it helps.


I just now have to wonder: If long ago Mass had
modern-day strict domestic abuse policing policies
like the classic "if we come to your door on a domestic,
at least one of you is going for a ride - the only question is who";
and MADD-style criminalized DUI misdafelonies,
would we even have suitability as a technique?

The Ruling Class doesn't like Commoners having access to guns,
but was May Issue a pure hoplophobe move to rub everyone's rhubarb,
or was this implementation of gun control
actually an expedient substitute for exhaustive Nanny State Prohibited Person laws?


Some NESers can probably repeat the legislative history from memory,
so this isn't unknowable. I just now find myself wondering.

The narrowly-defeated handgun ban is before my time,
so I really don't know.

 

[Picton]

I didn't scour the record, but were the handguns legally possessed?
If so, it doesn't exactly cast Winthrop PD's "suitability" "discretion" in a good light.
Which would contribute to the slow-walking of any final reports...


NES seldom considers the smattering of dumpster-fire applicants denied by green towns
because we are fixated on legit applicants denied by red towns.
Many of the applicants denied by green towns may be PP's anyhow.
(God knows when the wind's blowing from the right quarter,
we get about one of them per fortnight in the Mass Laws subforum).
Denying them is not a Chief's fault.

But I haven't seen anyone here deny the truism that
every LEO working a town or precinct knows the "frequent fliers"
who keep causing all the domestic calls.
That doesn't justify police getting the right to investigate applicants
to see if they're "self-radicalized(*) anti-Semites"
who are careening towards becoming active shooters.
But it's the facade that suitability hangs upon.

(*) I wonder if they autopsied the shooter's brain...
You don't have to have a rapidly-growing tumor
to become an emergent anti-Semite,
but sometimes it helps.


I just now have to wonder: If long ago Mass had
modern-day strict domestic abuse policing policies
like the classic "if we come to your door on a domestic,
at least one of you is going for a ride - the only question is who";
and MADD-style criminalized DUI misdafelonies,
would we even have suitability as a technique?

The Ruling Class doesn't like Commoners having access to guns,
but was May Issue a pure hoplophobe move to rub everyone's rhubarb,
or was this implementation of gun control
actually an expedient substitute for exhaustive Nanny State Prohibited Person laws?


Some NESers can probably repeat the legislative history from memory,
so this isn't unknowable. I just now find myself wondering.

The narrowly-defeated handgun ban is before my time,
so I really don't know.

We talked about this at the time: Winthrop did not own this perp’s LTC. He did have one.

Another reason it fell off the map?

 

[AHM]

We talked about this at the time: Winthrop did not own this perp’s LTC. He did have one.

Inneresting; thanks for the recap.

 

[Picton]

The DA just came out TODAY and said they wouldn't be filing charges against the WPD cop who put down the shooter.

Gee.

Nice that the DA worked so quickly...

 

[rogersmithiii]

I love the use now of “Mass shootings” in the news. Mass shootings every weekend. Mass shooting now defined as three or more shooting victims.

Maybe they mean “ass shootings”.