Another Weekend in Meningrad

From the Boston Herald this morning come these lovely bits of news.

Gunfire from a nightclub squabble on Boylston Street barely missed a 2-year-old girl passing by in a car early yesterday, according to witnesses and police.

A jilted lover with two bullets in a handgun threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend and infant son, police said yesterday.

Police surrounded the home of Anthony J. Davis early yesterday morning, and after a brief standoff he surrendered.

Davis, 22, was to be arraigned today in Dorchester District Court on a laundry list of charges including: discharge of a firearm within 500 feet of a building, unlawful possession of a firearm, breaking and entering, possession of ammunition and possession of a high capacity feeding device.

Police were called to his ex-lover's home around 8 p.m. Saturday for reported gunshots. When they arrived, Davis' ex-girlfriend told them Davis was gone. She said he was angry about the new man in her life and had called her earlier saying he was coming from his Mattapan Street home to "lay the whole family down in the house."

There are a whole lot of folks in Boston, one a 2-year-old girl, who are alive today because of sheer, blind luck, NOT because of Massachusetts' "common-sense" gun control laws. And certainly not because of Mayor Menino's "Urban Residents Disarmament Policy".