Results tagged “guncontrol”

City Councilor President Maureen Feeney ("MoFee") has suggested hosting a gigantic town meeting at the South Boston Convention Center in the spring, the Globe reports. more ›

--Early this morning, a 22-year-old man was found shot in the head on Bowdoin Street. He was pronounced dead at the scene. --Last night, the Codman Square Safe Street Team heard shots fired at Dunlap and Washington. They soon found the alleged shooter, Oscar Mohamed, 19, of Jamaica Plain. Mohamed had shot two men. Both sustained non-life-threatening injuries. One of them didn't waste any time and took a cab to the hospital before emergency reinforcements... more ›

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti... more ›

--Universal Hub spotted a few brief lines in the Transcript's police and fire log: "A West Roxbury woman reported to police that her neighbor, who accused her dog of soiling his lawn, threw dog feces on her lawn. A harassment report was filed." One can only imagine the years of simmering resentment as poop appeared on the neighbor's yard. Whether or not this woman's dog was the source of the poop, it's easy to see... more ›

Back in 1999, Bostonist grabbed the VHS from the local video store and popped in Chris Rock’s “Bigger and Blacker.” While entertaining, there was one joke in particular that caught our attention, and it resurfaced on our DVD player years later when Michael Moore made use of it in Bowling for Columbine:

You don't need no gun control. You know what you need? We need some bullet control. Man, we need to control the bullets, that's right. I think all bullets should cost $5,000. $5,000 for a bullet. You know why? 'Cause if a bullet costs $5000 there'd be no more innocent bystanders. That'd be it. Every time someone gets shot, people will be like... 'Shit, they put $50,000 worth of bullets in his ass.' People would think before they killed somebody, if a bullet cost $5,000. ''Man, l would blow your fucking head off, if l could afford it.’ …'You better hope l can't get no bullets on layaway.''

Think about it: Massachusetts is the one state in fifty (and certainly the only commonwealth of the four in the nation) with legal gay marriage. New York doesn't have it. California, that bastion of out-there, Hollywood living, doesn't have it. Even Hawaii, which is about as different from all the other states as anyplace can be, couldn't hold onto it. And although there are those who would say that this unique legal occurrence is further proof of why "Massachusetts liberal" should be an insult requiring no further explanation, Bostonist disagrees. Sure, we're a true-blue state, a bastion of labor unions, social programs, gun control, and all those other quasi-communist bogeymen of Republican nightmares. But we have another reputation, too: we're the prude city the made "banned in Boston" famous, New York's laughable, funny-accented hinterland, the place where you couldn't buy beer on a Sunday until a year ago. We're the big northern city with the longest-lingering race relations problem (not that we should be proud of that), the inclination to drunken brawling, and the inability to behave ourselves after big games. In short, we're not the wine-sipping, French-speaking, quasi-foreign nation we've lately been made out to be. Really, we're pretty damn American, and we're a good example of how a state that is mostly Catholic and basically conservative can be quietly tolerant. more ›