Dear Horrible's co-worker,
Thank you for contacting me about H.4102, An Act Relative to Reducing Firearms Violence. [STRIKE]I understand your concerns about this bill, and I appreciate your advocacy on this issue.[/STRIKE]Your opinion has been heard, and ignored.
I support the bill because allowing individuals to purchase more guns increases homicides, suicides, and other gun-related injuries. This legislation is something that law officials requested because of the number of kids getting killed in cities, and it will help protect our children by reducing the number of illegal guns on our streets. Actually, it won't. In order to reduce the number of illegal guns, actual LEOs will have to make actual arrests. Which they could do now, without any new law, since straw purchases are illegal. I believe that this bill does not unduly burden legal gun owners.I have not read the bill, and have no idea why lawful gun owners would object to being limited to one gun or magazine a month, and being refused permission to sell their own property. I also believe that legal gun owners can demonstrate responsible gun ownership by standing up against gun violence in cities and supporting measures to prevent people from acquiring guns illegally.I have heard of H2259, but have not read it. Deval Patrick told me it would allow people to openly carry anti-tank rifles around Boston, shoot machine guns in their back yards, and turn the state house into a gun store, and I believe anything he says without question.
Higher household gun ownership directly correlates to higher rates of homicides, suicides, and accidental injuries.Except in Canada, Switzerland, Israel, Norway, Finland, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and a bunch of red states that I know very little about. According to a 2003 study in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, 41 percent of gun related homicides would not occur under the same circumstances if guns had not been present.In related news, 100% of all drownings would not have been drownings had water not been present. According to this study, 59% of all gun deaths would still have been gun deaths with a gun not present. I see no problem with this theory. Additionally, guns in homes are used 72 percent of the time in accidental killings and injuries. I just made this number up. Among gun-owning parents who stated that their children had never handled their guns, 22 percent of the children stated they had.Those parents probably also thought their kids didn't swear, would never cut class, and had never been offered a joint.
I believe if we reduce the number of firearms that a person can purchase within one year to twelve, we can help reduce the number of injuries, homicides, and suicides that occur in the commonwealth.I have no actual basis or research for this at all. This legislation is designed to reduce gun trafficking by “straw purchasers” who purchase firearms for convicted felons or other prohibited buyers.Because the fact that making a "Straw Purchase" is already a federal felony does nothing to discourage the average law abiding citizen. Sadly, 40 percent of gun acquisitions occur on the secondary market through straw purchasersI have just admitted that I, or someone I know, is an accessory to several counts of a federal felony. or other individuals who resell their weapons.Gun owners sell each other guns all the time. Just like car owners sell each other cars, except with more paperwork. I consider this a bad thing, because I do not respect property rights. In these situations background check are not requiredbecause the buyer and seller must both have a photo ID, issued by the state, with indicates that they have already passed a much more thorough background check, allowing people who should not be in possession of firearms to acquire them lawfully.It never occurred to me that it's not, in fact, a lawful acquisition if one of the parties is prohibited from owning firearms, because I am wholly ignorant of existing gun control laws.
In addition, this bill would require private sales of firearms to be recorded at a dealer locationIf were supporting a law requiring that all car sales be processed through a car dealership, to ensure that buyer and seller both had a valid drivers license, you would laugh me out of office, but I can get away with it as long as I use the word 'gun'. so that the record of the sale will be included in the Massachusetts Instant Record Checking System.Once again, I demonstrate that I am ignorant of the fact that all legal private gun sales are already recorded in this fashion. This system will track guns sales across the state to ensure that criminals cannot buy them.Since what I regard as the most important portion of the bill is wholly redundant, I clearly have not been honest about my reasons for supporting it, or I am clearly mentally deficient and should not be allowed to serve as your representative.
Thank you again for expressing your concerns about this bill. If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to contact my office again.Go piss up a rope.
Sincerely,
CORY ATKINS
State Representative
14th Middlesex District
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