{"id":73997,"date":"2021-11-06T15:57:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T20:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=73997"},"modified":"2021-11-06T16:01:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T21:01:13","slug":"73997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=73997","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Comment O’ The Day
\nRemember..<\/em>
\nThe Marxists have two main goals:<\/em>
\n1. Destroying America<\/em>
\n2. Replace her with a China style techno-fascist state.<\/em>
\nGotta see the big picture folks.<\/em>
\nThe Marxist Dems intend<\/strong> these results of their policies.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Businesses Leave and Crime Increases While Massachusetts Legislators Pass More Gun Control Laws.<\/a><\/p>\n

A new\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0confirms Massachusetts gun\u00a0control laws achieved \u201cno effect\u201d on reducing violent crime even though legislators promised they would.<\/p>\n

Politicians earn support by promising constituents they\u2019ll focus on a few key issues and delivering results. Antigun lawmakers in the Bay State achieved a rare trifecta-failure by curtailing voters\u2019 Constitutional rights, eliminating hundreds of jobs and failing to make a dent on violent crime and enhancing public safety.<\/p>\n

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Predictable Results<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Nearly 600 members of the public attended a July 2014 Massachusetts Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security on a massive gun\u00a0control expansion considered by the legislature. Oddly, the proposal sought to ban modern sporting rifles (MSRs) that the state already banned in 1998. It also included a provision to implement rules allowing law enforcement to decide \u201cmay issue<\/a>,\u201d \u201csuitability standards\u201d regarding who can purchase not only handguns, but also shotguns and rifles, regardless of whether the buyer passes a NICS background check.<\/p>\n

A month later, then-Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick\u00a0signed<\/a>\u00a0the bill and Massachusetts House Speaker Democrat Robert DeLeo praised it,\u00a0saying<\/a>\u00a0the package will \u201cmake Massachusetts one of the safest places in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time, Bay State Republican and Second Amendment advocate Rep. George Peterson\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0of the gun\u00a0control package, he \u201cdidn\u2019t find anything that will have an appreciable effect on gun\u00a0violence. These are more restrictions on lawful gun\u00a0owners.\u201d<\/p>\n

A new 2021 deep-dive study by researchers at American University proved Rep. Peterson clairvoyant, concluding that the gun\u00a0control package has\u00a0\u201cnot reduced<\/a>\u00a0gun\u00a0violence and gun\u00a0crime at all in Massachusetts.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Researchers looked at Massachusetts crime data and determined that the annual number of firearm-related crimes, homicides, suicides and criminal prosecutions appears unaffected so far, even after six years since the strong gun\u00a0control package was implemented. Janice Iwama, assistant professor of justice, law and criminology at AU, said she \u201cfound no consistent effect of the new legislation on reducing four types of violent crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

That didn\u2019t stop researchers from couching the law\u2019s failures and pushing legislators to consider even more restrictive laws and that Massachusetts residents should just\u00a0give it more time<\/a>. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t necessarily mean the law isn\u2019t working, or was misguided. But it does raise questions about what a state that\u2019s already got tough laws can do\u2014and whether the state is really even trying.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cliff\u2019s Notes summary would say Massachusetts had strict gun\u00a0control laws in place, legislators passed even stronger Second Amendment limitations on law-abiding gun\u00a0owners and that residents have experienced no reduction in criminal gun\u00a0violence. They didn\u2019t count on losing jobs.<\/p>\n

Economic Costs<\/h3>\n

Even with the 2015 restrictive laws having little noticeable effect on reducing crime, antigun Massachusetts legislators hadn\u2019t quenched their thirst. They introduced bills to implement even more gun\u00a0control in the state during the recent legislative session.<\/p>\n

Ownership of America\u2019s\u00a0most popular-selling centerfire semiautomatic rifles<\/a>\u00a0were already banned in the Commonwealth, but firearm manufacturer Smith & Wesson watched as lawmakers introduced restrictions banning the popular gun\u00a0from even being manufactured. That\u2019s a significant portion of Smith & Wesson\u2019s business and they made a\u00a0difficult decision<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are under attack by the state of Massachusetts,\u201d Mark Smith, Smith & Wesson\u2019s President and CEO, said in a\u00a0press release<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cThis has been an extremely difficult and emotional decision for us, but after an exhaustive and thorough analysis, for the continued health and strength of our iconic company, we feel that we have been left with no other alternative.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith & Wesson\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0750 jobs would leave Massachusetts for greener pastures in firearm-friendly Tennessee. Troy Industries, which also manufactures MSRs, magazines and other firearm accessories,\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year the hostility in Massachusetts led them to pull up roots and move 75 jobs out of state. As of 2020, Massachusetts was home to nearly 5,000 firearm-industry related jobs with an\u00a0economic impact<\/a>\u00a0of roughly $1.8 billion.<\/p>\n

Gun\u00a0control hostility has cost the state nearly one-fifth of those jobs. That\u2019s directly attributable to laws that have had no measurable impact on reducing criminal gun\u00a0violence.<\/p>\n

Smith & Wesson has been a landmark business in Springfield since 1852. While overall violent crime in America is on a\u00a0steady downward trajectory<\/a>, and MSRs account for\u00a0fewer total deaths<\/a>\u00a0each year in United States than knives, clubs and fists do combined. Gun\u00a0control politicians in Massachusetts have buried their heads in the sand and ignored reality.<\/p>\n

The result is there are far less jobs, more restrictions on the Constitutional rights of law-abiding Bay Staters and no noticeable reduction in violent gun\u00a0crimes. Well done, Massachusetts politicians. This is something voters should remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comment O’ The Day Remember.. The Marxists have two main goals: 1. Destroying America 2. Replace her with a China style techno-fascist state. Gotta see the big picture folks. The Marxist Dems intend these results of their policies. Businesses Leave and Crime Increases While Massachusetts Legislators Pass More Gun Control Laws. A new\u00a0study\u00a0confirms Massachusetts gun\u00a0control … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment-o-the-day","category-rkba","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73997"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74005,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73997\/revisions\/74005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}