This story is a “Gun Death?” tale, but I think the nature of the ineptness of the Massachusetts “Justice” System trumps all. Remember this is a state where I can only buy certain approved pistols, cannot buy a semi-auto rifle with a folding stock or a threaded barrel if it has a removable magazine, cannot buy or own magazines that hold more than 10 rounds, and need an expensive permit to simply BUY or OWN ammo, let alone a working gun.
Meet Jared Remy
As with most men who allegedly commit domestic homicide, Jared Remy—son of broadcaster and former Boston Red Sox player Jerry Remy, and himself a Red Sox security guard until he was fired for steroid use in 2008—gave everyone lots of warning. When he was arrested Thursday night on charges of stabbing his girlfriend, Jennifer Martel, to death in front of their 4-year-old daughter and neighbors, it was only one day after he had been brought in front of Waltham District Court in Massachusetts on charges of slamming Martel’s face into a mirror—and was then released. Despite 14 previous arrests, including domestic violence against two other women, Remy was allowed to walk free without bail—just a paper-thin order to not abuse Martel. The next night he, in the words of Martel’s mother, “went back and finished the job.”
This all happened despite the option, recently highlighted in a New Yorker piece, that exists in Massachusetts to hold high-risk offenders in jail for a period of time, after a “dangerousness hearing,” to prevent them from doing things like murdering their victims.
So we have a violent, drug-abusing repeat offender with a protection order against him….and he is simply allowed to walk free without so much as posting bail so he can murder the victim of his latest domestic violence charge.
Hey, but at least he used a knife, right? Those Massachusetts gun laws are keeping us SO safe!
The Joyce Foundation says: “Massachusetts, You’re More Likely To Live Here! Most Effective Gun Laws in the Country, Lowest Gun Fatality Rate.”….rings rather hollow as innocent people bleed out from stab wounds from KNOWN violent offenders.
We don’t need gun control, we need CRIMINAL Control!
