Life In An Enlightened State...

Massachusetts has, according to John Rosenthal, tough guns. So much so that "you're more likely to live" in MA - the thinking being that our gun laws are so stringent that criminals cannot get firearms and therefore turn to a life of productive work or something.
 Yeah, I know. Stop laughing already...

So why, praytell, does something like this happen?

Dad beaten over parking space: ‘It’s not worth it’

A Brockton man brutally beaten over a parking space recalled the harrowing attack yesterday from his Hub hospital bed, telling the Herald he’s lucky to be alive and the argument wasn’t worth it.



“They kicked me. They hit me with a stick when I was on the ground,” recalled Felipe Sosa, who said he begged his attackers to stop. “They never stopped.”

The anti-freedom brigade likes to trot out the "people will be shot over parking spaces" trope whenever concealed carry is mentioned. They use statements like "Wild West" (conveniently ignoring that places like DC, Chicago, Boston, etc. are FAR more violent than any of the towns of the Old West), blood in the streets, etc. without a trace of irony - as the cities in states that have the draconian gun control laws they gleefully support actually do see daily and recurring violence.

They had a metal pipe and a piece of metal shelving; common items found in the vast majority of homes and 100% of all home improvement stores. Neither item requires any kind of permit to own nor carry. And yet these three men were able to beat someone very nearly to death over a parking space with these common items. The man beaten grabbed a baseball bat - again, available at any sporting goods store or big box store - but was unable to defend himself against a comparably armed group of men.

But *we* are the paranoid ones that cling to our guns, right?

That is all.