Massachusetts Dems Demand More Laws After Gun Ban Fails to Stop Felon's Shooting Spree
By Cam EdwardsDemocrats in Massachusetts are scrambling for political
cover after a repeat, violent felon managed to evade the state's restrictive
gun control laws and get his hands on a rifle this week, using it to fire
dozens of rounds at motorists in Cambridge before he was stopped by an armed
citizen and a Massachusetts state trooper.
As the Gun Owners Action League reports, some Democrats are
demanding new
laws in response; not to make it easier for lawful citizens to
exercise their Second Amendment rights, but to make violent crime even more
illegal.
“The only law that saved lives on Memorial Drive was the Second Amendment,” said Jim Wallace, Executive Director of GOAL. “An armed citizen stopped what could have been a blood bath, but the Commonwealth’s politicians can only call for more laws. They can’t help themselves because that would mean they would have to admit their policies have been a complete failure.”
The previous crimes of the Memorial Drive terrorist should have kept him in prison for many decades. Instead, he was back on the streets in three years. This isn’t a failure of the system, it is the system.
This is the new law being called for:
SECTION 1. Chapter 265 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following new section:
Section 15G. Whoever without regard for the risk of serious bodily injury to another intentionally or recklessly discharges a firearm, large capacity weapon, rifle, shotgun, sawed-off shotgun, or machine gun and thereby causes a substantial risk of serious bodily injury to another shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 5 years or by imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 2 ½ years.
Oh, well, that oughta take care of the problem. Never mind
that the suspect in Monday's shooting had been sentenced to five to six years
in prison for essentially the same crime back in 2020, or that it's already a
criminal offense in Massachusetts to try to murder someone regardless of what
implement is used.
And forget about the fact that prosecutors sought a
10-to-12-year sentence for the suspect in this week's attack back in 2021, when
he was charged with firing more than a dozen shots at police officers, but a
judge slashed the sentence in half. Even if Democrats do pass this
nothingburger law, what's to stop a judge from sentencing future offenders to
the bare minimum?
Healey tells the Herald she has spoken with the state trooper and retired Marine who took action Monday to subdue the gunman.
“I just want to say I spoke to the trooper and the former federal agent (Marine) who were on scene. Their acts of heroism were just unbelievable. Just like what we saw last week from Trooper Trainer on Route 1 in looking to save lives, which he did,” Healey said.
He's not a former "federal agent." He's a Marine
veteran and a private citizen who had his pistol in his vehicle when he saw a
guy with a gun taking shots at cars driving by. His bravery and heroism should
be recognized, but there's no reason for the governor to portray him as
anything other than a good guy with a gun who was in the right place at the
right time and was willing to risk his life in order to protect and save
others.
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