I was searching through the MA General Court website and happened upon this piece of proposed legislation...
Makes perfect sense to me. If a person can't be trusted to own a firearm, why should they be trusted to serve on a jury?
Only complaint I have is that LTC denials should be included also.
Of course it will never pass (it's highly unlikely it would even be allowed to be debated).
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/ht00/ht00966.htm
HOUSE .......No. 966
By Mr. LeDuc of Marlborough (by request), petition of Tony
Licardi for legislation to exempt persons denied a firearms identifica-tion
card from jury duty. The Judiciary.
In the Year Two Thousand and Five.
AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE DENIAL OF A FIREARMS IDENTIFICATION CARD.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary.
Any individual denied a firearm identification card shall be
exempt from performing jury duty until such time as said firearm
identification card is granted.
Makes perfect sense to me. If a person can't be trusted to own a firearm, why should they be trusted to serve on a jury?
Only complaint I have is that LTC denials should be included also.
Of course it will never pass (it's highly unlikely it would even be allowed to be debated).
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/house/ht00/ht00966.htm