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发信人: Commissar (柯密同志), 信区: GunsAndGears
标 题: Boston Police Commissioner: I Say Who Needs a Gun!
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jul 29 00:16:23 2014, 美东)
Writing for a majority of the Supreme Court in District of Columbia v.
Heller, which recognized an individual right under the Second Amendment to
possess firearms for self-defense, Justice Scalia observed: “The very
enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government … the power
to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth
insisting upon.”
Nevertheless, Boston Police Commissioner Bill Evans expressed his support
this week for a provision in the House version of a Massachusetts gun
control bill that would give local law enforcement officials discretionary
power to decide who may acquire licenses to own shotguns and rifles. This
provision was stripped from the State Senate version of the bill. Under
current law, local law enforcement officials already have discretion over
who is issued a license to own a handgun.
In an interview Boston Public Radio, Evans stated:
For the most part, nobody in the city needs a shotgun, nobody needs a rifle,
and I don’t know a lot of people who are into hunting who, being lifelong
residents, would actually want that who lives in the city, but, especially
here in the city I want to have discretion over who’s getting any type of
gun because public safety is my main concern and as you know it’s an uphill
battle taking as many guns off the street right now without pumping more
into the system.
Unfortunately, Evans is not alone in his failure to comprehend that
constitutional rights limit, rather than depend upon, the discretion of
government functionaries. On Tuesday, several Massachusetts police chiefs
gathered at the statehouse to protest the discretion provision having been
stripped from the senate’s bill. Among those participating were Evans,
Chief Terrence Cunningham of Wellesley, Chief Erik Blake of Oaks Bluff, and
former Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis. The Boston Globe
additionally reported that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick supports the
House bill.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/28/boston-police-commissioner-i-say-who-needs-a-gun/#ixzz38pLz51UO
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护自己
Boston lags behind U.S. in solving murders
336 cases in past 10 years not closed
http://bostonherald.com/news_opi ... _in_solving_murders
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