BOSTON (AP) — Gov. Deval Patrick says he’s waiting for a report from his public safety undersecretary before passing judgment on the decision to parole a career criminal police say shot and killed Woburn officer John Maguire.Are you kidding me? Patrick is "waiting... before passing judgment"? His parole board, which while not embroiled in controversy over hack appointments like the probation department, is still manned by 5 of 7 folks appointed by Deval Patrick - so he has a vested interest in keeping the discussion away from the department's failings. He certainly doesn't want any scrutiny brought on a board overwhelmingly staffed by his appointments; certainly not in light of their baffling decision to unanimously allow a violent career criminal to walk free from three life sentences.Patrick said Monday he hasn’t watched a tape of 57-year-old Dominic Cinelli’s 2008 parole board hearing and warned against a rush to recrimination. He said the focus should be on Maguire’s grieving family.
This same man wants to limit me to buying one gun a month because he claims it will reduce crime. He has no facts on his side, no evidence whatsoever that law-abiding gun owners in Massachusetts are responsible for criminals getting their hands on firearms, but that does not stop him from calling for legislation that further erodes my Second Amendment rights. Every time there's a high profile shooting he's quick to get on TV and decry the "easy availability of guns" as he pushes for yet another hairbrained gun control idea that will do nothing to reduce crime but everything to make life harder for the law abiding gun owner in MA.
Governor Patrick, that's not a beam in your eye, that's half the hypocritical forest.
That is all.
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No surprise. His original nick' was Free-em-all Deval.
"House Speaker Robert DeLeo said his reaction would be to ban parole for anyone serving multiple life sentences."
I've got a better idea. How about making it so that receiving multiple life sentences automatically prompts consideration for the death penalty - and if they stem from more than one incident, it's an automatic death sentence.
When someone is violent enough to justify multiple life sentences, they should probably just be executed, instead.
It's a theme we see over and over again. Real crime prevention, and punishment after the fact, takes effort and money. It's HARD WORK to build cases and convict gang members and dangerous criminals.
It's much easier for politicians to blame a bogeyman like the law-abiding gun owner. It makes it look like they're doing something.
Anyone that pays taxes to support such a system must feel terrible.
About as terrible as those who support regimes that can nullify the Bill of Rights because of a snowstorm, yes.
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