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Gun Rights Rally on Boston Common Draws Hundreds
Protesters urged lawmakers not to pass Gov. Patrick's proposed gun control bill.
Taking aim at Democrats, the media and others they say are attacking the Second Amendment, hundreds of gun rights activists gathered on the Boston Common Wednesday afternoon to rally to fight a bill that would tighten gun control. "Every time the government passes new gun control laws it creates a problem," Ying Li, an engineer who participated in the 1989 pro-democracy protests centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, told the crowd. The rally was organized by the Gun Owners' Action League and was partly in response to new gun control measures being considered at the State House, including Gov. Deval Patrick's bill to limit firearm purchases to one a month, reduce access to high-powered rounds of ammunition and require background checks…
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Matt
9:00 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012
A few items to note; -illegally owned guns are by far the vast majority of gun-related crime. -second hand smoke kills a multiple of people more per year than homicide. The answer (in my opinion); -much harsher penalty for illegally owned guns -Licenses being "shall issue" (barring those with criminal or mental limitations) with the State having an appropriate amount of time to run background … more ›