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Old 04-14-2018, 09:04 AM
 
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Old 04-15-2018, 10:08 AM
 
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Plus, the killer is only 29. All these crimes must have been committed within a relatively short time period. May not include any juvenile charges, either.
He is the poster child of what Somerville was back in the 1970s and 1980s yet he is only 29 years old.
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Old 04-15-2018, 09:42 PM
 
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111 priors, including murdering a police officer. It's hard to even get that much playing Grand Theft Auto...
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Old 04-16-2018, 11:27 AM
 
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I wonder where he got the gun. I know that criminals can always get guns, but (unless someone makes guns surreptitiously) it would have come from a legitimate factory and somewhere made the crossover from legal to illegal. I always wonder about where crooks get their weapons.
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Old 04-16-2018, 11:40 AM
 
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I wonder where he got the gun.

I as well, but I find they never follow up with this information.


Most likely stolen, or filed serial numbers which makes it unknown.
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Old 04-16-2018, 12:07 PM
 
Location: New England
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Or it was bought legally in a state where it's easy to get handguns, then brought to Massachusetts. Apparently there are people who make money doing that.
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Old 04-18-2018, 09:45 AM
 
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I don't want to start another thread and I know I may get bashed also, I ask this genuinely as a question. I get that this coward scumbag that took the life of what it looks to be a decent man should see the end of a shotgun. People like this should not be in public. But I really have a hard time understanding why when we lose a police officer we have 6 days of news coverage and 5,000 people at a news covered funeral? Flags half mass? Does this in fact make the narrative that police are above us as humans? Does this make us feel inferior to police? these are general questions and may not be the best place to post or the right time, but I always question this when tragedies like this happen. I hope this is not seen as me taking the side of criminals or even denouncing police. I genuinely wanted to know how other members of the general population felt is all.
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Old 04-18-2018, 03:35 PM
 
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I don't want to start another thread and I know I may get bashed also, I ask this genuinely as a question. I get that this coward scumbag that took the life of what it looks to be a decent man should see the end of a shotgun. People like this should not be in public. But I really have a hard time understanding why when we lose a police officer we have 6 days of news coverage and 5,000 people at a news covered funeral? Flags half mass? Does this in fact make the narrative that police are above us as humans? Does this make us feel inferior to police? these are general questions and may not be the best place to post or the right time, but I always question this when tragedies like this happen. I hope this is not seen as me taking the side of criminals or even denouncing police. I genuinely wanted to know how other members of the general population felt is all.
Just as firefighters and military service members do, they signed up for a very dangerous profession fully knowing that every day they head out for work could be their last (and increasingly have to fear for their lives off the job too); all for the purpose of protecting the public from harm. Their lives are of course worth no more than anybody else's, in God's eyes anyway. There are also a lot of many other dreary/extremely thankless jobs out there that provide invaluable service to society. And of course every innocent death is equally tragic, but there is something else about robbing the life of one who's duty in life is to protect us ALL. The 5,000 strong funeral procession is about more than just Sean Gannon, it's about an attack on the Uniform (one puts it on for something much greater than oneself). An attack on the United States. An attack on our way of life. An attack on peace, safety and freedom, and everyone who stands for it.

Make any sense?
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Old 04-18-2018, 03:56 PM
 
Location: Massachusetts & Hilton Head, SC
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Lots of places where the murder of a police officer is an automatic death penalty. Not that their individual lives are any more valuable, but they are charged with keeping the public safe, therefore we are all at risk when one is murdered.
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Old 04-18-2018, 05:44 PM
 
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They do a job I sure as hell don't want to do. They have to deal with scumbags and criminals I wouldn't want to deal with. I have family that are firefighters and rush into burning buildings every day. The brotherhood is real as they all depend on each other.

I personally don't have an issue with the 5000 strong procession although I see how some can take issue with the amount of attention as a claim to status. I do also feel the media tends to oversensationalize a story at times which leads to competition between stations trying to outdo the other chasing that advertising revenue. Case in point major snowstorms.

I always tell the wife that if I die doing something heroic, tell the media to F off for me.

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