Just thought I’d take a quick look at this local crime:
A Revere man pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges he shot and killed a Reading man inside the victim’s home last week in what Middlesex prosecutors called a drug-related dispute.
John Burke, 25, appeared in Woburn District Court to face charges of murder and unlawful possession of a firearm, the gun allegedly used to shoot 22-year-old Joseph Ronan three times on Aug. 15 inside his family’s home on Lawrence Road in Reading.
So first up the men’s town’s of Residence are Revere and Reading Mass. I will note that both towns are towns difficult to get a Mass Carry Permit.
You can GET a permit, and buy and own guns in these towns, but to carry the gun around it needs to be unloaded and locked up.
But this guy simply was carrying the gun loaded, which is illegal, also he didn’t have a Mass gun permit. No word on how he got the gun. I’m guessing he stole it.
Illegal, Illegal, Illegal.
Note there was also an exchange of drugs going on. Illegal.
And there was murder. Illegal.
Even worse, this guy was shot over two Percocets!
Do I need to get into the fact that you can’t discharge a firearm in a residential area in Reading?
Now the anti-gun people use the metric “Gun Crime” and “Gun Death”, and use them in ways to promote tighter restrictions of gun control.
So we have Illegally carrying a firearm. Possession of a firearm without a permit. Illegally discharging a firearm. Possession of a prescription medicine without a prescription. And Murder.
Furthermore the murder was over TWO (2!!!!) painkiller pills!
Care to share with me what good gun control laws do, and care to share with me the law that would have prevented this?
Of course those laws do make my day-to-day life a pain in the ass, but at least I have the satisfaction that they save no lives, and prevent no crimes!
You also for got that they aid in the criminalization of the law abiding. A great example of this is pseudo-ephedrin. If you have too much in your house, cold, allergies, and multiple children, if you don’t have a prescription, you’re a criminal.
The bottom line is they are more than happy to make anyone a criminal. For instance getting someone on a bogus felony strips so many rights they can then nail them on numerous others. The courts have to sustain themselves some how.
Much like “Drunk and Disorderly”, or “Failure to Signal” these chickenshit felonies are just tools to make law enforcement/government’s REAL goals.
They don’t care about any of this bullshit (including weapons infractions in Mass) but if they WANT to arrest or imprison you, that’s when these laws are suddenly enforced. Classy, huh?
Say Uncle has been talking a lot about selective enforcement and tyranny. Its all true!
No, no Weer’d. You’re wrong. That last gun-control law, THAT would have been the reason he wouldn’t have done all of those other bad things. I lose count, but I think criminals start getting scared when they break more than 7 laws at a time. That’s the reason we need more laws.