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    Boston Police Commissioner: I Say Who Needs a Gun!

    More or less. And as expected.



    Writing for a majority of the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v. Heller, which recognized an individual right under the Second Amendment to possess firearms for self-defense, Justice Scalia observed: “The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government … the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon.”

    Nevertheless, Boston Police Commissioner Bill Evans expressed his support this week for a provision in the House version of a Massachusetts gun control bill that would give local law enforcement officials discretionary power to decide who may acquire licenses to own shotguns and rifles. This provision was stripped from the State Senate version of the bill. Under current law, local law enforcement officials already have discretion over who is issued a license to own a handgun.

    In an interview Boston Public Radio, Evans stated:

    For the most part, nobody in the city needs a shotgun, nobody needs a rifle, and I don’t know a lot of people who are into hunting who, being lifelong residents, would actually want that who lives in the city, but, especially here in the city I want to have discretion over who’s getting any type of gun because public safety is my main concern and as you know it’s an uphill battle taking as many guns off the street right now without pumping more into the system.http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/28/bo...#ixzz38rxFQjMW
    "And how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like, if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain, whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"

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    Why when someone says they are doing something in the name of "Public Safety" I always get a bad feeling.
    When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail." ----- Jack Burton 1986

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    Because you've come to the realisation that what they really mean is disarming law abiding citizens so those law abiding citizens can be more securely assaulted by criminals in and out of uniform/office. Criminals by definition do not obey law so are only aided in their operations by laws that prohibit law abiding citizens use of arms.
    "And how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like, if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain, whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phil125 View Post
    Why when someone says they are doing something in the name of "Public Safety" I always get a bad feeling.
    Kinda goes with "common sense".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phil125 View Post
    Why when someone says they are doing something in the name of "Public Safety" I always get a bad feeling.
    "Public safety" is commie-speak for "the greater good".
    "I'm fucking furious, I'm violently angry, and I like it. If you don't know what that feels like then I feel bad for you"

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    I was visiting an Army buddy in Boston, many years ago. We had gone to visit a friend of his. The friends wife let us into the house, but the guy was chasing a burglar he had interrupted in the act.
    The no-gun law was in effect at the time, and all this guy had was a huge pair, and a hockey stick to try and chase the crook down and subdue him!
    At that time I was told that even BB guns had to be registered if one wanted to keep a gun in Boston.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FunkyPertwee View Post
    "Public safety" is commie-speak for "the greater good".
    I would say it is commie speak for "bend over and take it up the ass."

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    In the mid 70s I lived in Boston. It is a total shit hole. The auto insurance rates (when I lived there) totally precluded owning a car. I only have one positive memory of Boston and that was seeing a Mike Tyson look-alike attack a hippie with a hatchet and then in turn get beat up by four cops. My experience was that Back Bay Boston could be a violent place. I certainly wouldn't walk the streets there today without a gun.

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    Not surprising coming out of Assachussets.

    It's actually good to have them publicly state their positions as it helps to identify friend from foe.
    Usually sufferers of paraphilic infantilism are proud of their condition. Kinda like being a liberal. Your mental flaws are there for the entire world to see, and you're damned proud of it. - tank_monkey

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    With thinking like that we'd all still be subjects of the Crown. The founders of this country must spin in their graves.

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    Who needs police commissioners telling us what we need? Glad I don't live in Massachusetts.

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    Good call Peacemaker WTF is this thing about need when it comes to RIGHTS....

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    Anyone ever think the PD and feds WANT more criminals? Want stronger, better armed criminals? Want to disarm us so the criminals have it easier? See, all the lawlessness that happens when civilians are disarmed would tend to create a call for MORE police, BIGGER government. Blaming guns is just part of the cycle for them.
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    It's one thing to use terrorism to make a political statement, but the wanton mutilation and suffering of innocents? How does that forward your political goals? When done in the name of religion, how does that earn you brownie points with God?

    Fuck religious extremism. And especially fuck the "religion of peace." "

    So, lagcsocialist supports terrorism AS LONG AS ITS FOR POLITICAL ENDS....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruskiegunlover View Post
    Anyone ever think the PD and feds WANT more criminals? Want stronger, better armed criminals? Want to disarm us so the criminals have it easier? See, all the lawlessness that happens when civilians are disarmed would tend to create a call for MORE police, BIGGER government. Blaming guns is just part of the cycle for them.
    Considering only law abiding people obey antigun laws, the answer is yes.
    "And how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like, if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain, whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by 308 View Post
    Curious if Boston Police Commissioner Bill Evans will be giving up his gun
    I doubt it, he IS the law after all.
    "And how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like, if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain, whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"

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    Sounds like he needs to get knocked down a few pegs. Some of theses chiefs and commissioners act like dictators.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 308 View Post
    Curious if Boston Police Commissioner Bill Evans will be giving up his gun
    Nah...he thinks he is special.

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