-Locals have no control over whether the media runs with a story or not and neither do attorneys. They can try to make noise and the media can choose to ignore them or if they cant, paint them as unhinged, racist or whatever else they choose.
The only reason for the lack of media follow-through that makes sense to me is their political affiliation was left of center and too easy to verify. Every other aspect of this was the Left's perfect scenario. I cant recall where but there was another shooting where people later posted a pic of the shooters fridge with Obama stickers/magnets on it and that died out as well.
I didn't
scour the record, but were the handguns legally possessed?
If so, it doesn't exactly cast Winthrop PD's "suitability" "discretion" in a good light.
Which would contribute to the slow-walking of any final reports...
NES seldom considers the smattering of dumpster-fire applicants denied by
green towns
because we are fixated on legit applicants denied by
red towns.
Many of the applicants denied by green towns may be PP's anyhow.
(God knows when the wind's blowing from the right quarter,
we get about one of them per fortnight in the Mass Laws subforum).
Denying
them is not a
Chief's fault.
But I haven't seen anyone here deny the truism that
every LEO working a town or precinct knows the "frequent fliers"
who keep causing all the domestic calls.
That doesn't justify police getting the right to investigate applicants
to see if they're "self-radicalized(*) anti-Semites"
who are careening towards becoming active shooters.
But it's the facade that suitability hangs upon.
(*) I wonder if they autopsied the shooter's brain...
You don't have to have a rapidly-growing tumor
to become an emergent anti-Semite,
but sometimes it helps.
I just now have to wonder: If long ago Mass had
modern-day strict domestic abuse policing policies
like the classic "if we come to your door on a domestic,
at
least one of you is going for a ride - the only question is
who";
and MADD-style criminalized DUI misdafelonies,
would we even
have suitability as a technique?
The Ruling Class doesn't like Commoners having access to guns,
but was May Issue a pure hoplophobe move to rub everyone's rhubarb,
or was this
implementation of gun control
actually an expedient substitute for exhaustive Nanny State Prohibited Person laws?
Some NESers can probably repeat the legislative history from memory,
so this isn't unknowable. I just now find myself wondering.
The narrowly-defeated handgun ban is before my time,
so I really don't know.