Got it : http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...on-governor/RAdC20pc3I62Rqe3x4aghK/story.html
"Mike C. Follo, 38, a gun owner for most of his life, started hunting at the age of 12. He is the lead firearms instructor at Down Zero Training, a firearms school based in Shrewsbury.
‘Now is our time to stand, for our future and for future generations.’
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“Now is our time to stand, for our future and for future generations,” he said, drawing applause from the crowd.
Follo said the tragic school shooting at Newtown, Conn., has caused a backlash against gun ownership that is unwarranted.
“It’s time when the infringement . . . [is] getting to a level where we have to stand up now, there is no more sitting on the sidelines and hoping for someone else to stand up for you. There was a tragic event that happened, two events, and it triggers a big backlash against law-abiding people. They try to take my gun every time somebody does something stupid with a gun.”
Follo said the school’s enrollment has dramatically increased recently.
“People want to get things before they are banned,” he said."
The Linsky spin at the end was pretty crappy...
“I honestly believe there’s not one or even a small number of solutions to reducing gun violence,” Linsky said in a phone interview Saturday. “I accept the fact that we’re going to have guns in society.”
His proposal would give law enforcement more discretion to approve or deny gun licenses and he is pushing for a requirement that military-style weapons be stored at gun clubs or shooting ranges.
“The strong majority of people in the Commonwealth are in favor of more gun control. Only about 8 percent of the [state’s] population are licensed gun owners,” he said. “The people at the rally and those sending me angry e-mails from all over the state aren’t representative of the people across the state or country or most of the licensed gun owners. They aren’t offering solutions, they are knee-jerk opposition.”
Ross Schacher, director at-large of the Northborough-based Gun Owners’ Action League, which counts its members at about 14,000, said Patrick’s and Linsky’s proposals “very simply will not work.”