{"id":39089,"date":"2013-12-30T10:51:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T15:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39089"},"modified":"2013-12-30T14:43:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T19:43:47","slug":"scary-black-guns-for-boston-pd-no-says-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39089","title":{"rendered":"Scary black guns for Boston PD? No, says Mayor."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m conflicted over this story sent to us by Jerry920 from Fox News<\/a> in which the Boston Mayor-elect Martin Walsh, opposes arming some local police with AR-type rifles. While I’m concerned that police are beginning to look more and more like an occupying force, what with their black, military style clothes and military-style weapons, I don’t think that politicians are the people who should make the decision how they should be armed;<\/p>\n

The Boston Police Department had been pushing for a limited number of officers to carry the high-powered rifles, in light of recent mass shootings as well as the Boston Marathon bombing earlier this year. <\/p>\n

But after the incoming mayor initially stayed mum on the idea, a spokeswoman for Walsh told the Boston Herald he’s not on board — not yet, anyway. <\/p>\n

“Mayor-elect Walsh is opposed to the AR-15 rifles,” she was quoted as saying. “Unless otherwise convinced by the Boston Police Department, he does not think they are necessary.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The plan is to arm 22 officers on the Boston PD force with AR-15 style weapons (the scariest looking weapons). Now if they had planned to arm every single patrol officer with an M4 slung across his chest, I might have a bigger problem with it, but it’s to arm a very small percentage of officers, who one day might need the large ammunition capacity weapons. And if having those officers available as one tool in their box to fight crime on one occasion in the coming years saves a life or two, I think it’s probably worth it.<\/p>\n

But for a politician to arbitrarily make the statement “I don’t believe arming them with assault weapons is going to make them any safer,” like City Councilor Charles Yancey said, is just myopic. Of course, all of those police organizations who lined up behind the “assault weapon ban” brought all of this irrational fear of the guns in the first place and they’re partly at fault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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