Boston is famous for BS, now they have operation LIPSTICK, they say their goal is educate women who buy guns “legally” for criminals. Of course, it’s not really legal to lie in a federal form, specially that question about whether the gun your buying is for you or someone else, but liberals don’t let reality stop them when they have a 2nd Amendment to fight.
This year, as the city experienced an uptick in gun-related homicides, law enforcement officials saw evidence that women have been playing a larger role in illegal gun exchanges. In part, this rise may be an unexpected side effect of Massachusetts’ mandatory-minimum sentencing laws, which have many felons wary about picking up new charges, officials in the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office report. Rather than risk gun purchases themselves, criminals often ask the women in their lives—mothers, sisters, girlfriends, and, in the case of sex traffickers, prostitutes—to buy guns for them, a practice that law enforcement officials refer to as a “straw purchase.”
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“A lot of these women are not career criminals, but are being taken advantage of through threats or intimidation,” says David Chipman, a former special agent at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. While working with the ATF, Chipman routinely interviewed women caught up in the illegal gun trade. “They hadn’t connected the dots and realized how serious their actions were.I don’t think they understood the legal liability,” he says.
Source:http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2013/10/29/women-gun-violence/
Really? They know who they’re buying and keeping guns for. I guess to a liberal, women can never be guilty. One moment they’re strong enough to serve in the military in combat (I agree with that view btw), but two seconds later, they’re being intimidated by the men in their lives.
But nationwide, most of these obvious solutions to the gun crisis have failed. Local groups such as Stop Handgun Violence have argued, persuasively, that the country needs to implement a better system for background checks to reduce the number of guns on the streets, but the National Rifle Association has successfully blocked all attempts to federally regulate background checks. It has even lobbied Congress to pass a law prohibiting the funding of studies that treat the urban gun epidemic as a public health crisis. Despite widespread public support for tighter gun restrictions—a September Gallup poll found 49 percent of the country wanted stricter laws governing the sale of firearms—Congress has refused to take action.
We already have background checks and federal laws. Furthermore, there’s no such thing as an “urban gun epidemic,” AIDS and Herpes are epidemics, criminals shooting people are a fact of life, and you don’t respond to it by treating everyone as a potential criminal. By the way, what happened to the “90% support gun control lie”? I guess even the liberal media has to tell the truth occasionally, assuming 49% is an accurate number.
The idea behind Operation LIPSTICK is simple, perhaps unrealistically so: a public health campaign, along the lines of the old “Just Say No” drug ads or Mothers Against Drunk Driving, aimed at making the trafficking of firearms a social taboo. Robinson believes that educating women about gun trafficking will change how they act when faced with the prospect of holding, hiding, or purchasing a gun. These kinds of campaigns are often mounted to prevent women from falling victim to social ills like sex trafficking or domestic violence, Robinson notes, but women’s involvement with the gun trade has never been given the attention it needs. “We’ve got to do something about the way these women are being used and exploited to play this role,” she says.
Poor liberals, they never learn. It’s PUNISHMENT that changes behavior. With all due respect to Nancy Reagan, plenty of people didn’t just say no. If there’s money to be made by trafficking guns, drugs, etc, someone will do it. Criminals and their associates don’t really care about social taboos. The real agenda of these people is getting money to demonize firearms, they want to do to guns what they did to tobacco.
Yet there’s common sense from at least one reader. As Mr. Apple said on Disqus.
“So how about instead of dumping more laws on the law abiding citizens of this country we enforce the laws already on the books. Let’s arrest the women in this article for “straw purchasing”, gun trafficking, and hiding unlicensed firearms. OR we could just come up with more laws for them to ignore while restricting those that obey the laws. Your choice.”
Of course, my ultimate dream is that ownership of guns is just as legal and common as ownership of baseball bats and kitchen knives, but his idea is far more productive than yet another “public health” campaign for an issue that has nothing to do with health, public or otherwise.
