{"id":87085,"date":"2022-10-28T15:06:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T20:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87085"},"modified":"2022-10-28T15:06:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T20:06:54","slug":"87085","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=87085","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Massachusetts Gun Control Scheme an Abject Failure<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gun Related Homicides Increased 111% Since 1998 Gun Control Act<\/p>\n

2020 Massachusetts Department of Public Health Report on Deaths Still Reflects the Commonwealth\u2019s Gun Laws are an Unmitigated Disaster!<\/em><\/p>\n

On Thursday, October 27, 2022,\u00a0Gun Owners\u2019 Action League (GOAL) released a report<\/a>\u00a0reflecting a nearly two-fold increase in gun related homicides in Massachusetts. The report included data taken directly from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health\u2019s Injury Surveillance Program (ISP). The report breaks down gun deaths in the Commonwealth into three categories: Homicides, Suicides, and Accidental deaths.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat just jumps off the page is the more than doubling of gun related homicides since the passage of the 1998 Gun Control Act,\u201d said Jim Wallace, Executive Director of GOAL. \u201cFor more than two decades we have constantly heard that Massachusetts is leading the nation in \u2018common sense\u2019 gun control laws. Using the State\u2019s own data, we are proving that is simply a false and dangerous narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n

Using the State\u2019s own data, the report reflects an 111% increase in gun related homicides since 1998. Gun related suicides are down a few points, but that marginal success is outweighed by a huge increase in suicide by hanging\/suffocation. Virtually no gains have been made in accidental gun deaths as those numbers were so minuscule already.<\/p>\n

It is GOAL\u2019s hope that the legislature will finally see what this so-called, gun control effort for what it really is. An affront to our Second Amendment civil rights. There is absolutely no way to justify what has been done to the Second Amendment Community in the name of \u201csafety\u201d. One of the first things the legislature needs to address in the next legislative session is a complete revamp of the State\u2019s gun laws in a manner that respects our community\u2019s civil rights. Further, the political leadership needs to start addressing the human criminal element head on and the growing mental health crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Massachusetts Gun Control Scheme an Abject Failure Gun Related Homicides Increased 111% Since 1998 Gun Control Act 2020 Massachusetts Department of Public Health Report on Deaths Still Reflects the Commonwealth\u2019s Gun Laws are an Unmitigated Disaster! On Thursday, October 27, 2022,\u00a0Gun Owners\u2019 Action League (GOAL) released a report\u00a0reflecting a nearly two-fold increase in gun related … 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":[50,8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint","category-rkba","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87085","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=87085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87086,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87085\/revisions\/87086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}