Anti-Gun Billboard on I-90 Boston to Go!
It is the kind of stark message that has made the 252-foot-long billboard a graphic, look-at-me advertisement for stricter gun control. But after 19 years, its owner is searching for a new home.
”This has been the proudest accomplishment of my life,” said John Rosenthal, a real estate developer who attached the billboard in 1995 to the side of a Lansdowne Street parking garage he owned.
The sign –the work of Stop Handgun Violence, a Newton nonprofit cofounded by Rosenthal — must be moved by March, a deadline set by the parent company of the Boston Red Sox when it bought the garage from Rosenthal in 2013.
Rosenthal made his fortune selling real estate during the real estate bubble. That bubble has burst and money is thin for people in this line of work, which is probably why he sold the garage. I never knew he owned it, so the billboard was essentially being shown rent-free. Now that the spot no longer belongs to him he’s looking for a new spot.
”I’m hopeful that we’ll find a property owner who shares our concern about gun violence,” Rosenthal said. “We cannot afford to pay a high rent, and the billboard will just cease to exist if that’s the only option.”
Rosenthal said he is searching for sites along the Turnpike, Interstate 93, Route 128, “or anywhere in Boston.” Mayor Martin J. Walsh said he will support a new home in the city for the billboard, which he called “an eye-opening reminder of the tragedy of the crimes being perpetrated with guns across our nation.”
He’s building a new property nearby so he might put it up there, but it will be a few years before it’s ready for a sign. I suspect he won’t be able to find a spot, and if he does he won’t be able to pay for it.
This sign really isn’t that big a threat to gun rights in Massachusetts or anyplace else, which further shows how dire things are for anti-rights activists in America.
Good riddance!
I couldn’t agree more, and even better if he can find no safe harbor for his stupidity.
So the Mayor of Boston is willing to support finding a new place to post a sign against the Constitutional RKBA? So isn’t that State-Sponsered Propaganda?
Well Walsh was endorsed by MAIG Co-Founder Tom “Mulbles” Menino. Still at the same time he has shown he is not nearly as leftist as Menino was (damning with faint praise), so he could just be paying lip service for the sake of an anti-gun city.
Good riddance is right…