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Ban All Guns Now

November 8, 2018 By thegreenmiles 21 Comments

The progressive position on gun control should be that we should ban all guns now. Can we negotiate on guns for cops, hunters & people in extremely remote areas that cops can't quickly reach? Sure! Let the NRA ask for those & we can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: crime, Gun safety, guns

“You’re letting all of us down”

October 3, 2017 By fredrichlariccia 1 Comment

I was so proud of my local newspaper's - the Wakefield Daily Item - editorial today condemning Congressional inaction on gun safety control : "... While we watched the footage yesterday in numbed resignation to the fact that nothing is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: guns, katherine-clark, las-vegas, Paul Ryan, Seth Moulton

Gun Law State Scorecard

October 3, 2017 By Pablo 2 Comments

Las Vegas is a tourist destination, and we are finding that victims of the recent shooting traveled to this event from all over the continent. Nobody was thinking about it at the time, but we have thousands of tourists being targeted in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: guns, las-vegas, nra

No, Flood of Guns Didn’t Cause Violent Crime to Drop

September 2, 2015 By thegreenmiles 5 Comments

"Since ’91, Americans have acquired over 170 million new firearms and violent crimes have declined by 51%," the NRA recently tweeted, a comment that's been repeated endlessly by conservative media. The problem with this idea: Most of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: crime, guns, safety

Maura Healey Talks Prisons and Guns

June 5, 2014 By massmarrier 9 Comments

  Dem candidate for MA attorney general Maura Healey bears the mark of the progressive — she wants to go to the root of big problems and solve them. Click below to hear how she’d tackle two complex, interrelated areas of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: addiction, attorney-general, election 2014, guns, massachusetts, Maura Healey, mental-health, prisons, recidivism, reform, Tolman

Solution to Guns on Campus: MORE Guns on Campus!

November 18, 2013 By thegreenmiles 15 Comments

Armed police couldn't prevent the Navy Yard shootings. An armed security guard couldn't prevent the Columbine massacre. A swarm of armed police arrived at the Virginia Tech shooting site within 3 minutes of the first 911 call, only to find … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: crime, guns, public-safety

The G.O.P. and a Platform Built for the Past‏

September 12, 2012 By steven-j-gulitti Leave a Comment

To hear the pundits and political professionals talk about it, this election is all about turning out a party’s base. That’s because there are few if any undecided voters left and the only undecided voters that count are the ones residing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2012-elections, abortion, barack-obama, civil-rights, conservatives, education, gay-rights, guns, health-care, labor-unions, mitt-romney, presidential-politics, Republican 2012 Platform, same-sex-marriage, taxes, voting-rights

Senator Brown’s “leave it to the states” idea about gun control is, well, stupid

January 19, 2011 By David Leave a Comment

Legal Reasons This is pretty easy, so let's dispense with it quickly.  For years, the meaning of the 2nd Amendment was a matter of dispute, as was the question whether it applied at all to the states.  But those matters have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: brown, gun-control, guns

Mass. Gun Laws Save Lives – Here’s Some Numbers

January 14, 2011 By mannygoldstein 1 Comment

I just found some interesting figures that I'd like to share. As most people know, our Commonwealth has perhaps the toughest gun laws in the country.  Our good friends to the north, New Hampshire, take the opposite approach.  For … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: accidental-deaths, guns, nh

Bay State sanity (Brian McGrory column)

January 12, 2011 By mannygoldstein 6 Comments

Excellent column - reality-based. Bay State sanity By Brian McGrory Globe Columnist / January 12, 2011 Not often enough does anyone say this around these parts, but thank God for Massachusetts. Thank God for our elected leaders. Thank God … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: brian-mcgrory, guns, massachusetts, nra

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Is there any equivalent survey done of unsheltered ppl in Boston and regional hubs like Brockton and Lowell? @MassINC @MHSA_Revolution #mapoli

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The number of unsheltered people and related vehicles, tents, and makeshift structures we found averaged:

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