This is getting old
Once again Mayor Menino demonstrates his feeble grasp on the situation of increased gun violence in Boston:
So, by your own words, Mr. Mayor, the police can't prevent violence, but politicians can?
While I am pleased that recently most of the focus has been on getting these criminals off the streets, it would be nice to hear one, just one local leader step up to the plate and admit that the gun control laws in the Commonwealth are misguided at best, and that some major reform is called for.
Yeah, I'll be holding my breath for that to happen.
A Jamaica Plain man accused of killing his mechanic was arraigned yesterday on murder charges.
Police said Felix Jimenez, 29, shot Benjamin Ayala, 27, in the chest at close range in a dispute in the garage bay of the Larquenta auto repair shop on Ceylon Street on Wednesday evening. Ayala was rushed to Boston Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Jimenez pleaded not guilty in Dorchester District Court.
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Earlier yesterday, Mayor Thomas M. Menino said police could not have prevented the mechanic's shooting.
"How could the police prevent that?" Menino said. "The guy doesn't like his grease job, so he pulls out a gun and shoots him?"
So, by your own words, Mr. Mayor, the police can't prevent violence, but politicians can?
Menino said he and other mayors need help from other levels of government in preventing gun violence. He deplored "the availability of guns we have in our community today" and said, "We need to remove the guns from the streets...We need stronger laws, we really do."
While I am pleased that recently most of the focus has been on getting these criminals off the streets, it would be nice to hear one, just one local leader step up to the plate and admit that the gun control laws in the Commonwealth are misguided at best, and that some major reform is called for.
Yeah, I'll be holding my breath for that to happen.
