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Massachusetts laws do little to help with illegal weapons, Sandwich Police Chief Michael Miller said.
"The only people who obey laws are the ones who aren't going to cause you a problem," Miller said.
Criminals and terrorists know, Rosenthal said, that Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont are among 32 states that require no background checks to purchase a gun.
Would it be legal to publish the name address and phone numbers of the staff at the news paper?
Maybe add in pictures of their kids, where they go to school..
What times their houses are un occupied, previous convictions..
You know, public records, important relevant information? The people have the RIGHT to know...
Strange......Every gun I've purchased at my local gun shop in NH required a background check. I guess I should tell him that it's not required.
If you listen to what he said it was "gun DEATHS". An important distinction. Most of the violence happens in Boston, which also has one of the highest concentrations of cutting-edge hospitals on the planet.
You've hit the nail on the hammer! High concentrations of cutting-edge hospitals are the leading cause of gun DEATHS! Ban these hospitals! Move them out of Boston and to Manchester. Boston doesn't deserve them!
If we had 1000 shootings in MA, and only 5 of those people died (the high survival rate being due to the quality of medical care here)
If we had 1000 shootings in MA, and only 5 of those people died (the high survival rate being due to the quality of medical care here), and someplace like Iowa had 10 shootings and 8 of them died because of a lack of such high-quality care, it would look like MA is a less violent place (when looking solely at the numbers of gun casualties, which is what the reporter was forcing his readership to do), which we KNOW is not the case.
Or maybe you got his point and I missed your sarcasm.
Or maybe the bad guys can't hit center mass for chit.
Or maybe the bad guys can't hit center mass for chit.
You mean you can't get accuracy holding the gun on it's side?
Or maybe the bad guys can't hit center mass for chit.
You mean like this...
or
or my personal fav...
Man, what I would give to see that turd in the middle fire that gun and watch his pinky finger break off...group buy?
I thought that was some kind of urban bump-fire technique.
Still BS.
From those links:
Homicide rate per 100,000 population
Gun homicides per 100,000 population
Nothing about actual gun violence, only deaths. I would love to see gun violence stats without consideration of outcome but can't find them.
you have a much higher than average likely hood of surviving a shooting in Boston.
The Bopo publish fatal vs. non-fatal shoot stats. But granted, that doesn't help at all comparing Boston or the Commonwealth to the rest of the country.
http://www.cityofboston.gov/police/divisions/pdfs/Crime_stats2_7-21-08.pdf
But to Pipmaster's point, there are probably a LOT of non-fatal shooting that would likely have been fatal almost anywhere else. There are at least three level I trauma centers within Boston and there's almost always at least one within a 4 minute ambulance ride. Couple that with one of the best EMS systems in the country and you have a much higher than average likely hood of surviving a shooting in Boston.
Good trigger discipline, at least. Which only makes sense since he can't see a friggin' thing with his hat over his stupid face.