Latest Glob push for gun control.

[rogersmithiii]

In Jonathan Metzlâs provocative âWhat Weâve Become,â public healthâs approach to gun violence receives much-needed scrutiny - The Boston Globe

A gun violence researcher’s new book seeks a new path forward.

www.bostonglobe.com

 

[WanMan99]

Paywall.....

 

[rep308]

Never forget that the Boston Globe led the effort to BAN handguns in Massachusetts in 1976

From the NYT archives, no paywall, notice the Ford/Carter 1976 Presidential campaign reference

Massachusetts to Vote on Gun Curb (Published 1976)

Graduated income tax is among controversial referendums on Mass ballot Nov 2 (S)

www.nytimes.com

BOSTON, Oct. 17 —Massachusetts will become the first state in the nation to ban private ownership of handguns if the voters approve a referendum on the ballot Nov.2.

The emotional gun control issue, the subject of a hard‐fought political battle, is one of a number of controversial questions facing voters here as referendums.

Indeed, the campaigns for and against the nine referendum questions are consuming more political work, emotion and money than either the Ford‐Carter Presidential race or any local contest.

Besides the banning of handguns, attention is on a state version of the equal rights amendment, a proposal to ban noreturn bottles, two proposals dealing with electric power rates and a graduated income tax.

 

[GL2020]

The Globe never met a gun control bill that wasn’t “common sense”

The writing alone shows they don’t they don’t know crap about firearms and have no desire to know their subject matter.

 

[Dennis in MA]

Paywall.....

Globe: "So anyway, here's Paywall. I said Maybaaayyyyyyyyy. You're gonna buy a subscription somedaaayyyyyyyyyy. And after allllllll. You hit our paywaaaaaaallllll."

 

[Kevin_NH]

Makes me glad the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled in 1999 that our state constitution bars statewide referendums that would allow citizens to directly vote on issues.

Massachusetts will become the first state in the nation to ban private ownership of handguns if the voters approve a referendum on the ballot Nov.2.

Can't find this Massachusetts referendum published anywhere? I see like 3 dozen 2024 ballot initiatives, but nothing on firearms?

 

[Dennis in MA]

1976, Kev. LOL

You know. Independence and all that. Whites of their eyes.

 

[PaulR]

State run media.
They want full control, nothing less.
Because, they know better than you.

 

[HorizontalHunter]

BOSTON, Oct. 17 —Massachusetts will become the first state in the nation to ban private ownership of handguns if the voters approve a referendum on the ballot Nov.2.

Seriously, let’s have a referendum to ban the constitution. This state has lost its friggin mind.

How about a referendum on bringing back tarring and feathering?

 

[Parker Schreiber]

The article is a book review done by Anjali Enjeti, who openly states she writes with "a social justice lens." Some quotes:

• "What We’ve Become” tackles the role of race in Reinking’s killing spree, and the mainstream narrative about white gun owners, which portrays them as benevolent protectors of their individual safety, never as potential assailants.'
• Institutional racism is a significant factor in how gun violence plays out in the United States. “What We’ve Become” tackles the role of race in Reinking’s killing spree, and the mainstream narrative about white gun owners, which portrays them as benevolent protectors of their individual safety, never as potential assailants.
• Metzl’s primary argument — that reducing gun violence requires public health to engage in a more comprehensive and inclusive model than the charged binary between “gun-grabbing liberals” and “pro-gun authoritarianism” — is a forceful one. But at what point do we deem red state gun owners’ views so unshakable and uncompromising that they are beyond anyone’s reach?

I can't speak to the book, but the review, at least, conveniently ignores statistics that both the perpetrators of gun violence and the victims of gun violence are disproportionately people of color. As usual, mass shootings get all the "ink." Nothing new here.

 

[SKumar]

Notice how none of these gun laws apply to law enforcement or any government agents. Why? Because they know damn well that guns are the solution, not the problem.