Well, the Patrick Administration is back at it again. Calling for tougher laws in Beantown, wanting to send people to PRISON if they buy more than one firearm in a thirty day period.
Here’s a cut from Boston.com:
Backed by Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, the Patrick administration asked lawmakers yesterday to allow prosecutors to hold suspects in gun cases without bail and to bar gun owners from buying more than one firearm within 30 days or face 2 1/2 years in prison.
Those proposals were offered as part of a broader attack on gun-related violence in the state and were made after the Supreme Judicial Court on Monday banned prosecutors from seeking dangerousness hearings in illegal gun possession cases.
The court, in a 4-1 ruling, said that illegal gun possession is a “passive and victimless crime.”
The proposal filed by the governor would rewrite state law to make it clear that prosecutors have legal authority to try to keep someone in custody for up to 90 days while awaiting trial, an idea that Bristol County District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter has aggressively used in his jurisdiction.
It is not a victimless and passive crime, because owning a gun is NOT a crime! It irritates me gun control advocates like to brand honest, law abiding people as criminals in order to further their beliefs. It’s not right.
