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MA: State should keep silencer ban
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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At a recent hearing before the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on the Judiciary I listened to testimony from panels comprised of clergy, physicians and law enforcement officers who oppose H. 763 and H.789, two bills that would remove the 90-year ban on silencers for use by the general public. As a former school principal, the prospect of a shooter with a gun equipped with a silencer fills me with horror. Citizens of Massachusetts are fortunate to live in a state whose commonsense restrictions on the availability of lethal weapons to civilians have rendered our commonwealth, as determined by gun deaths per capita, the safest in the nation. |
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| So, a firearm with a suppressor scares him more than one without. Idiot. |
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