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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Senator Warren and Mayor Menino Discuss Gun Violence Prevention

Warren is sponsoring three bills that would support gun control reform, a gun buyer background check, and making gun trafficking a federal crime.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and Senator Elizabeth Warren discussed gun violence prevention on Friday, championing reforms including a criminal background check on anyone buying a gun in the country. "Now is the time to turn words into actions, to line up supporters and to mobilize all Americans behind common sense gun reform," Menino said after walking to the podium with a cane at the Parkman House. Menino joked with Warren, calling her the "senior" senator of Massachusetts, then turned serious about three major points key to gun violence prevention: Warren said she's sponsored three bills being unveiled next week that support those three points. Senator Charles Schumer, D-NY, is filing the Fix Gun Checks Act to close the gap in current …

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See Stoneham's Active Firearms Licenses, Agree With Patrick's Proposed Gun Restrictions and Boost to Mental Health Services?, Markey Proposes Recommendations for Biden's Gun Task Force, and 1 more ›

electtomdooley

3:10 pm on Tuesday, January 22, 2013

The problem is illegal guns, stolen legal and "shared" guns. All the massacres were perpetrated by young men using prescribed, mind-altering drugs. We need to identify those that have mental problems and sociopathic tendencies, and deny them access to weapons. Menino should focus on ending forced busing, not propaganda.   more ›

See Stoneham's Active Firearms Licenses

What are your thoughts on President Obama's proposals to curb gun violence? Let us know by posting a comment below.

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden unveiled a number of efforts last week aimed at curbing gun violence in the United States. Massachusetts is home to some of the toughest gun control laws in the country, with local members of Congress urging the federal government do more to prevent tragedies like that in Newtown, CT.  That got us thinking. How many Stoneham residents have a gun license? The answer: 861, if you're talking about the most common type of gun license, according to figures provided to Stoneham Patch by the state Executive Office of Public Safety and Security of active firearms licenses in Stoneham from 2008 through 2012. In bureaucratic-speak, those 861 licenses are "Resident Class A Large Capacity License to …

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Should Massachusetts Gun Control Laws be Loosened? and Markey Proposes Recommendations for Biden's Gun Task Force (in Arlington Patch)

Karl Ian Sagal

7:48 am on Wednesday, April 10, 2013

I got my first fire arms training in the Army. Anyone who is paying attention to this gun control debate should do some research on the net results of extreme gun control laws. All they do is make it harder for regular law abiding citizens to get guns to protect themselves. All they do is make it more likely that the criminal, who doesn't care about the laws, is the only one in the room with a …   more ›

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