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This guy had a criminal record a mile long and was a felon ILLEGALLY possessing a firearm. To refer to him as an "armed citizen" is disingenuous, if not an outright inflammatory statement. You can't compare legally armed citizens to convicted felons/cop killers.
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Originally Posted by BostonMike7
Given that he's already served time for drug and assault charges, I'm going to go out on the limb and say it was not a legal firearm.
Correct. A convicted felon cannot legally touch, much less own a firearm.
This really no longer belongs in the Massachusetts section, and it's my fault.
But what I meant was that the legal firearms industry inevitably leads to firearms getting into hands like Jorge Zambrano's. If we allow honest and sane people to own guns, we allow criminals and lunatics to have them too; everyone who has a gun is an "armed citizen". If you want to use the word "disingenuous", then it's acting as if there's some magic barrier that protects one group of people from the other! Write the word ILLEGALLY in capitals if you want, but it doesn't represent some line that can never be crossed. It certainly didn't mean much to Jorge Zambrano, and plenty of his friends are out there ready to kill any of us tomorrow.
I'd be very interested to hear how the gun that Jorge Zambrano used to kill Ronald Tarentino made that transition from the legal world into the illegal (or maybe the ILLEGAL) one. Maybe it'll be reported.
This really no longer belongs in the Massachusetts section, and it's my fault.
But what I meant was that the legal firearms industry inevitably leads to firearms getting into hands like Jorge Zambrano's. If we allow honest and sane people to own guns, we allow criminals and lunatics to have them too; everyone who has a gun is an "armed citizen". If you want to use the word "disingenuous", then it's acting as if there's some magic barrier that protects one group of people from the other! Write the word ILLEGALLY in capitals if you want, but it doesn't represent some line that can never be crossed. It certainly didn't mean much to Jorge Zambrano, and plenty of his friends are out there ready to kill any of us tomorrow.
I'd be very interested to hear how the gun that Jorge Zambrano used to kill Ronald Tarentino made that transition from the legal world into the illegal (or maybe the ILLEGAL) one. Maybe it'll be reported.
OP here, didn't intend for this to turn into another anit-gun/pro-gun debate. I'm going to ask the moderator to lock this rather than move it. Unless we can on topic of course.
Beware my fellow C-Ders especially those of you in Worcester and Metro West.
There are pictures of the car, mugshot on Twitter. Very Poor coverage by all local news stations and papers, this a.m.
Boston Globe has not yet reported the police officer died.
I thought I heard the police were trying to keep info quiet. I think something along the lines that they had a good idea where to find him and they didn't want him or anyone who might help him to know.
I thought I heard the police were trying to keep info quiet. I think something along the lines that they had a good idea where to find him and they didn't want him or anyone who might help him to know.
So is the suspect wanted dead or alive? Can I shoot him on the spot? People like this deserve to be hanged especially when you kill one of the most important individuals that keep our community safe. With friends and family involved in law enforcement, this hit homes hard. My condolences go to the officers family.
So is the suspect wanted dead or alive? Can I shoot him on the spot?
He died in a shootout with the State Police a few days later.
Last edited by massnative71; 05-29-2016 at 03:28 PM..
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