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Armed teen shot to death

A teenager was shot to death in Dorchester last night after exchanging gunfire with police who were investigating gang activity.

Members of the Youth Violence Strike Force were near 11 Navillus Terrace investigating a recent spate of gun violence in the area, said Boston Police Superintendent Daniel Linskey. Several people have been shot and injured or killed on Dorchester streets in the past week.

Officers approached a man at about 9:30 p.m., and he drew a firearm and began shooting at officers, Linskey said. “The officers returned fire,” Linskey said at a press briefing last night.

You know what the ironic thing is? This will go on the Brady list as a "child killed by gunfire". There is no distinction made between an 18 year old gangbanger trying (and failing - haw haw!) to kill police officers and some elementary schooler finding daddy's gun in the sock drawer with tragic results with these people. As long as they can add another checkmark in the "child" (remember, they count up to age 24 as a "child") killed by gunfire, the remainder of the story is inconsequential.

How weak does the case for gun control need to be to make these kinds of stretches? If frighteningly large numbers of children were being killed by firearms, wouldn't the simple facts speak for themselves? It begs the question of why it is needed to stretch the definition of "child" up to age 24 - that's 6 years beyond adulthood and 11 years beyond teenager. If large numbers of actual children were dying in accidental shootings, there would be no need for distortions, half-truths, and obfuscations.

Then again, if the Brady's didn't have distortions, half-truths, and obfuscations, they'd have no argument whatsoever.

That is all.