The Mass. Ave. Shooting
Yep. Another [yaaaawn] shooting in the disarmed Progressive People's Republic of Bostonia. I was going to pass on blogging this one. There are only so many hours in the day, and who has time to cover every incident in Boston of some nutjob discharging a firearm?
Apparent suicide ends lethal S. End quarrel
On steps of brownstone, a grim scene of violence
This story is particularly blogworthy, to me, in that it happened Monday morning at the same time and place where I was walking three days earlier on my way to work. Had I taken the T to work on Monday, it's quite possible I would have been right there as it went down. And, thanks to the most effective gun laws in the nation, only one of the people on the sidewalk that morning would have been armed.
Sorry, but "pepper spray vs. handgun" isn't my idea of "fair and balanced".
Unfortunately, the person with the upper hand would have been the deranged murderous scumbag. He seemed to possess no moral qualms over carrying a loaded firearm in public. And, yes, I'm going way out on the proverbial limb here and assuming he was not properly licensed to do so.
Can you believe our "common sense" gun "safety" laws did nothing to prevent this tragedy? It's simply shocking, I tell you. Why, it's as if gun control doesn't work! Someone should write a blog about this.
From what I could tell by watching the news accounts of the shooting, the gun was a medium to large-caliber single action (maybe) revolver. Stay tuned for legislation seeking to ban the civilian possession of these weapons of mass destruction, now that they've become the "weapon of choice" for today's nostalgic street thug.
Apparent suicide ends lethal S. End quarrel
An unidentified man is dead after apparently shooting a female acquaintance then turning the gun on himself early yesterday outside a South End rooming house.
On steps of brownstone, a grim scene of violence
Gunfire rattled residents of a South End street early yesterday when a man shot his estranged girlfriend in the head as she left her building and then turned the gun on himself, police and witnesses said.
This story is particularly blogworthy, to me, in that it happened Monday morning at the same time and place where I was walking three days earlier on my way to work. Had I taken the T to work on Monday, it's quite possible I would have been right there as it went down. And, thanks to the most effective gun laws in the nation, only one of the people on the sidewalk that morning would have been armed.
Sorry, but "pepper spray vs. handgun" isn't my idea of "fair and balanced".
Unfortunately, the person with the upper hand would have been the deranged murderous scumbag. He seemed to possess no moral qualms over carrying a loaded firearm in public. And, yes, I'm going way out on the proverbial limb here and assuming he was not properly licensed to do so.
Can you believe our "common sense" gun "safety" laws did nothing to prevent this tragedy? It's simply shocking, I tell you. Why, it's as if gun control doesn't work! Someone should write a blog about this.
From what I could tell by watching the news accounts of the shooting, the gun was a medium to large-caliber single action (maybe) revolver. Stay tuned for legislation seeking to ban the civilian possession of these weapons of mass destruction, now that they've become the "weapon of choice" for today's nostalgic street thug.
