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Gun Control & RKBA

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benEzra

(12,148 posts)
Mon Aug 29, 2016, 08:40 PM Aug 2016

Boston Herald: Maura Healey shoots Dems in foot with gun grab [View all]

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/hillary_chabot/2016/08/chabot_maura_healey_shoots_dems_in_foot_with_gun_grab

Attorney General Maura Healey’s controversial assault weapons crackdown has become yet another political land mine threatening the Bay State’s already shaken Democratic Party as it seeks to mount a serious 2018 challenger against Republican Gov. Charlie Baker.

In deeply blue Massachusetts, the Democratic Party is turning into its own worst enemy.

“There are a lot of Democrats who aren’t happy with her decision, but they don’t want to come out against one of the party leaders,” said state Rep. Colleen Garry (D-Dracut), one of 58 lawmakers who signed onto a letter opposing Healey’s ban.


What I've been saying for a long time.

This move was based on fundamentalist idealogy, not public safety. Massachusetts had 1,301 total murders 2007-2014; only 7 of those (0.5 percent) involved *any* style of rifle. That's fewer than one per year, on average, in the entire state.
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What's new??? elleng Aug 2016 #1
Ms Chabot is a GOP columnist. No surprise she would take this view. Mass Aug 2016 #2
"This measure is favored by many Democrats in MA." And opposed by others: friendly_iconoclast Aug 2016 #6
"Do these Democrats really think what we need in America is less gun safety? More assault weapons?" pablo_marmol Aug 2016 #8
Healey just turned a hell of a lot of Dems in Massachusetts into criminals. benEzra Aug 2016 #7
"What it *does* do is give downticket Dems a black eye nationwide." pablo_marmol Aug 2016 #9
"This measure is favored by many Democrats in MA." pablo_marmol Aug 2016 #10
"This measure" is a solution to a problem *that doesn't actually exist*: friendly_iconoclast Aug 2016 #11
"Solution" in search of a problem. pablo_marmol Aug 2016 #12
Healey and the Demo Speaker of the House allied with GOPers to oppose legalizing pot. Eleanors38 Aug 2016 #14
These are guns that are civilian-legal in *Canada*, and are used in less than 1 murder/year in MA benEzra Aug 2016 #15
Without that law (or reinterpretation)... discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2016 #16
Not just damaging in MA, but nationally. pablo_marmol Aug 2016 #3
This is on the news, nationwide.. virginia mountainman Aug 2016 #4
It's they who are "too loose" with Constitutional rights. appal_jack Aug 2016 #5
We're supposed to be the party of expanding rights...why do we get it wrong on the 2A. ileus Aug 2016 #13
Why? Hmmm -- let me take a crack at this.......... pablo_marmol Sep 2016 #17
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