In Lowell, Massachusetts, conservatives, libertarians, and gun owners are lashing out at a new law that will require residents to write an essay if they want to procure a license to carry. The laws, which were voted on unanimously by the city council, are set to go into effect this week. They will put Lowell Police Superintendent William Taylor in charge of determining who will and will not be granted a license.
“It is absurd that people should have to write an essay to the town to explain why they should be able to exercise their constitutional rights,” said Jim Wallace, executive director of Gun Owners Action League of Massachusetts. “We already have a very strict set of gun laws in the state, but this is way over the top.”
Police chiefs in Massachusetts enjoy wide latitude when it comes to implementing state and federal gun laws. Lowell’s new restrictions, however, may cross the line into infringement. At least, that’s what many residents believe. One such resident told the city council last week that we wasn’t going to play along with their games. “I will never write an essay to get my rights as an American citizen,” said Dan Gannon.
Police spokesman Timothy Crowley said it was much ado about nothing. “If you want a license to carry a firearm unrestricted wherever you want and whenever you want, the superintendent is just looking for some documentation as to why,” Crowley said. “That is not unreasonable to most people.”
You know, these people make statements like that and they never seem to be asked to prove it. Most people…most Americans…commonsense...they use these terms, but it’s just hot air. The truth is that most people believe that the Second Amendment says that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. And what is this requirement if not an infringement on that very right? What would the ACLU say if we started requiring voters to write an essay before getting registered? Hell, they don’t even believe we should ask for ID!
The situation in Lowell is similar to the one in the nation’s capital, where city council Democrats have tried for years to make up their own legal view of the Constitution. The courts have continually struck down their attempts to thwart liberty, and hopefully the courts will do the same in Massachusetts. Our rights only remain as long as we’re willing to fight those who would take them away.
The FBI just thwarted the maniacal plans of a mu-slime wannabe terrorist hell bent on entering a Masonic temple,
locking the doors and spraying everyone with machine gun fire until dead. Hum. “Gee, should we shoot back?”
With what? Oh we forgot to write our essay!!!
They will be marching to a different tune piped by a new piper when the shit hits the fan in their backyard.
Hopefully it wont be a funeral march.
It is not PC to say it, But “I do hope some of the Left wing Loons trying to ban guns, get swept up by the Muzzee Mobs. Maybe a taste of what we are trying to stop will wake them up. Not much hope, mainly brain dead’
They won’t because their private security force,(that they did not have to write an essay for) at the first indication will remove them or prevent them from going into the “Danger Zone”
Most liberals aren’t wealthy elites. Many are ‘on the dole’ and depend upon the funds given by the government. They will either be decimated by hunger (possibly by elite design), killed by terrorists, or sent to re-education camps.
Have you been reading the writings of Obamao’s good friend Bill Ayres again? That sounds like a combination of what he and Obamao’s other mentors Cloward and Piven have been proposing since the 60s.
I’ll be frank. I never read Ayres’ writing, but now I will add his work to my reading list. Know the mind of your enemy!
Absolutely! If I can just keep a handle on the anger I feel because of the lies, betrayal and sheer arrogance of these leftist jerks. Bury ’em.
I say incinerate ’em! 🙂
And, there are now TWO threats to our freedom.
1. Hillary “Killary” Clinton; ’nuff said.
2. Bernie Sanders — Socialist, Atheist, tax raiser, just can’t think of enough negative words.
We do NOT need another O-“vomit”- bama, OR WORSE!!
I agree with your first two sentences. The last however, I don’t agree with. Liberals and Democrats will do what they have ALWAYS done: STEAL from others!!!! This is why we need guns, to kill the worthless fcks when they bust down our door to steal our food and money.
I hear you. And I’m well armed. 🙂
You left out the huge number of lives forfeit during the commission of crimes they will be driven to in an effort to merely to secure food. Those that have prepped will NOT want to give up those preparations. Those that would attempt to relieve others of their food, guns, etc. will be summarily shot.
Why did we let it get to this? This is not the America in which I was reared.
I agree. A lot of lives will be lost because of the creation of a dependent class and the stoking of the flames of racial animosity. This is not the America I remember either.
An age old problem, how to really smarten up the population. I haven’t a clue. (sarcasm off)
Nor mine either. BUT, unfortunately it is what we have become due to lackidasical citizens who just can’t comprehend anything bad happening in this country such as muslims and other immigrants transforming this country into something akin to the middle east. After all, this is America. Maybe I should say this WAS America..Those who are prepared had best be more than just prepared. That stinky brown stuff is about to hit the rapidly revolving object and you want to be on the upwind side when it does.
They vote liberal but philosophically, they are far from liberal. Greed and entitlement come in all sizes and colors.
The Liberal Marxist Communists…and all those in the MARXIST D****RAT Party….need to be FORCED to GIVE UP their Guns and their Body Guards…Starting with the DC DICTATOR..The ILLEGAL SQUATTER in the White House….and on down the line to Congress…Starting with such GUN GRABBERS as CA Senator Dianne FOOLSTEIN…er Feinstien….and all the rest of them….Plus all the rest of the Assorted COMMIES….Starting in COMMIEWOOD….and go from there….
While we are at it, take away their Cadillac healthcare, pensions and all of the other perks they DON’T deserve.
The best way to do all this is to TERM LIMIT them….and by that i mean VOTE THESE LYING SCUMBAGS POLITICAL HACKS out of Office in the Primary Elections….
Actually the best way is to indict, prosecute, and convict every one of them for their blatant violations to the Constitution.
That Too…But we need to replace them…With people who will Indict…Prosecute and Convict…
Starting with the Hill
Then the danger zone will come to them. In the end, no one is exempt. This will not be fun or like TV or anything else America has ever seen. Keep your family and real friends. The rest will have to do their own heavy lifting.
The truly brain dead ones it won’t matter to. They’ll still blame the gun laws. The moderately intelligent ones it might change their minds. The rest it won’t matter because the last thing that will cross their minds will be a bullet.
Funny thing, while what you wish might seem noble, history has already shown us the opposite. Chicago is a prime example and they just continue to follow the leaders who they blindly elect. And then it even start to affect others and we now have one in the WH.
They’re coming up with more and more really DUMB SHIT every day!
How do you turn a liberal into a conservative?………………….Mug them.
The answer to the age old question still holds true.
Hopefully it WILL be a funeral march. These scumbags need to be taken out a shot for their flagrant violation of the Constitution and attempts at tyranny. When SHTF there are plenty of patriots who will remove them at the first opportunity.
Vote Trump
But ID to vote is not OK?
Nope, that would be racially insensitive – I mean, that will keep illegal aliens from voting! The horrors of a fair election!
Well if they want an essay then it will eliminate the Dem’s from getting a gun. Along with the illegals, Refugees and the Congress.
I wish the 911 terrorists had flown into a session of Congress. Oops, here comes an I.R.S. audit.
LOL. So true!
Okay, who the hell is this sheriff who wants an essay for something guarnateed in the Constitution? Did he write an essay to get elected? Guess not. So just vote the yankee out of office and let him work for the sanitation dept. We need less rules, not more. Grandma’ has pig urinr for sale: cheap, cheap.
True Yankees died out before the Civil War. If the spirit of the Minutemen and the Green Mountain Boys still exists, it is in the hearts of a small minority of New Englanders. I hope I’m wrong.
It was Lowell, MA city council. Idiots
Yes they are! How these vermin get elected is a reflection on the electorate! Idiots.
Not Constitutional!
“”the superintendent is just looking for some documentation as to why”
It is not necessary to explain WHY.
Just list on the application :”ANY LAWFUL PURPOSE”.
Just put ” Because the Constitution guarantees my right to carry. “
Hmmm, so by the same token, all ILLEGALS should write an essay in english, as to why they need to be allowed entry and all the benies of being here illegally. The stupid just increased. What part of the 2nd ammendment calls for this?
It increased exponentially.
Not a doubt.
It has – I laughed at “Idiocracy” when I saw it at the movies. Who knew it would be prophetic?
I now, ignore gun laws.
When the feds murdered the guy in Oregon, the gun laws died on the spot.
There is currently another country that wants to bring more of the rapist Muslim killers into the USA and take all weapons.
Germany.
No, I will keep my weapons regardless of the law.
Dec 2014, Of the People who were polled, 11.4 % of them thought that their state should secede from the union
Dec 2015, Of the people polled who were polled, 23.9 % of them though that their state should secede from the union
It would be interesting to see what that poll would show after the murder of the guy in Oregon.
Because of the way that the media portrayed what went on there, it won’t have changed much. Now when the feds try to take the 90,000+ acres of privately owned land along the Texas side of the Red River saying it was illegally sold by the state of Texas back in the 1890s, the secession pendulum in Texas will swing wildly in favor of secession. Of course the number of Federal agents who will die attempting to seize that land will not be small.
The feds are walking the precipice, now.
If it would happen in a flash, then Texas will ignite it. Unfortunately, I believe it will be a long , slow and painful collapse. I just worry about who may step in to “Help”.
Ask any OATH KEEPER! They’re on our side!
The U.N. thinks that private ownership of property should be illegal.
http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/
If democrats oppose it, it must be extremely bad!
So does Bernie Sanders, except for property HE owns.
Eliminate the BLM! Return the land to the American citizens.
There is nothing in the Constitution that grants the “gubmint” the right to all the lands they claim. What the Constitution allows is the land where the District of Corruption and Criminality sits (1 SQ mile) and other lands necessary for forts, ports and armories. It says NOTHING about the millions of acres the feds own or control. These lands should be returned to the respective states.
So to exercise our 2nd Amendment rights, these clowns are not requiring us to be literate? And literate enough to write a coherent essay?
Oh, the ironies! What kind of writing programs & tests to get a HS Diploma? Literacy tests for DL?
HEY!Are there literacy tests to exercise their right to VOTE?
Wonder how many in their gov’t can actually write a coherent essay?
Out of the bureaucrats’ population, very, very few. And these stupid, affirmative action employees make policy! It is enough to make one scream.
Essay hell. How about just a coherent sentence!!
Furthermore, be sure to PRINT since CURSIVE is being banned from schools and we want the bureaucrats to be able to read our essay.
I think that we got some who have lost what BRAINS THEY HAD.
Think about this. Politicians kill more people than any other thing and yet there entire TEST is just a big popularity contest and minimal performance measurements.
WE NEED MORON CONTROL.
Whatta expect from liberal massholes?
Careful – most residents of the Commonwealth consider ‘Masshole’ a compliment!
Whoa, I didn’t know that!!! Most? surrounding states deplore people? of Massachushits- Narcissistic liberal xenophobes
NH’ers and VT’ers do hate Massholes. And VT is bordering New York State. Vermonters hate the NY invasion, who are trying to legislate firearms out of existence there.
My son resides in Maine, and the massholes have inundated the NH and Maine coast with their money and liberal indoctrination- I can personally say that any interaction with massholes has been negative, it’s kinda like a click of self righteous idiots
I remember when southern NH was still very conservative in ’98. Liberals destroy everything they touch.
John,
That is the understatement of the decade~
Ya’ll are wayyy too close together…
I’m a former resident of Mass..got tired of the high cost of living, and enormous taxes imposed on the people, couldn’t afford to pay my mortgage or feed my family, and above all..the assign laws they keep passing! This one is the best yet..Praise God..I’m Living in the deep south now..Tired of all the demonrat laws!!
I’m being transferred to NC in two months. It should be a tad easier to breathe. 🙂
It should be, and I wish you & yours well..john
Thank you, Jack. May God bless you and yours as well!
I’ll post my usual jingle, but first I want to say this is extraordinarily unconstitutional. If illegal aliens can vote unchallenged at the polls, then this initiative is proof positive that the state government has no interest in the true welfare of its productive citizens.
My baloney has a first name, it’s B-A-R-A-K,
My baloney has a second name, it’s O-B-A-M-A!
Oh, I’d like to chuck him in the trash and if you ask me, “Why?”, I’ll saaaaaaaaaaayyyy….
‘Cause Barak Obama has a way of messing up the USA!!
LMAO, now that is funny!
Thank you, Retired Marine!
You are very welcome.
And I thought that I had a sense of humor
GENIUS PURE GENIUS.
Thank you, Wiz!
There is a reason why my buddy who used to live in New Hampshire refers to them as Massholes.
Dear Police Chief:
I want to carry a gun to protect myself from filthy muslims trying to rape American girls and women, any bastard who thinks his or her color allows them to steal, loot, mug, rob, or burn my property, anyone who threatens physical harm to me, my family, my friends, my car and belongings, my church, or restaurant.
I promise to use the proper restraint and not to wave it about like a toy, or use it to enlarge my sexual members, or to make me a much feared bad hombre. Also, I promise that in order to simplify the turning of the wheels of justice, I will make sure, to the best of my ability, that any of the above named threats that require the use of lethal force, that the force used is positively lethal.
Thank you.
There you go, for any of you who must write an essay, just cut and paste what Bob wrote.
I smell a court case coming up…where do these places keep getting these mental idiots from?
The libtard school of the dumb.
Affirmative Action… Making America dumber by the minute.
Equal Opportunity! But not Equal Ability!
You have that right.
The very reason this AMERICA is the BEST DEMOCRACY this PLANET has ever experience is the first ten Constitutional Rights that guarantee this Nation from TYRANNICAL Governments that OUR very CONSTITUTION freed US from! If you are afraid of the GUN then you need to be FRIGHTENED from those who would steal your CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS beginning with the 2nd RIGHT which will be followed by the 1ST and then the 5th US RIGHTS…
Without the SECOND RIGHT of the USA Constitution there is NO WAY through which the people could/can protect themselves from a outrageous TYRANNICAL Government…
Can any of you spell the TITLE of the movement of the 3rd REICH or it’s political leader? Yea, right! I didn’t think so!!!
These fools among US JUST TO STUPID TO LIVE!!!
Because the “Movement” is so irrelevant as to be invisible does not mean we, the people, should give 2 hoots about the 3rd Reich. Americans have ample experience dealing with Nazis but not so much when dealing with arrogant, judgmental, elitist assholes such as yourself. I present Congress as Exhibit “A”.
REALLY!!! YOU ARE AN ANTI AMERICAN AND THERE IS NO PLACE IN THIS COUNTRY FOR THOSE WHO WOULD UNDERMINE IT’S CONSTITUTION!! btw, OFF BITCH!!!
It is time for the Citizens of this country to take action to stop this ILLEGAL INFRINGEMENT OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT….Then we need to go ONE STEP Further…and Round Up and Charge these GOVERNMENT GOONS…er Officials….with Crimes for VIOLATING THE SECOND AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION….and put their SORRY ASSES IN PRISON….After a Real Court of the People convicts them…
Don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t cuss, don’t chew. I do lie a little. How is that for a very short essay opening?
That’s what happens when democrats control the state. Complete idiocy.
Requiring an “essay” before getting a permit to carry a weapon, plays right into the hands of the criminals and those who want your guns. That would make public to those who want to confiscate your guns, and alert the criminals to those who have valid properties to protect—–and anyway one looks at such a stupid proposal, that is “infringement”
A written essay for a Concealed Carry Permit? Are you that stupid? GROW UP
The only essay necessary is the part of “shall not infringe…” for these Constitution challenged idiots.
That would work. Memorize and just use the Second Amendment as your essay. Providing one would submit to such an affront to Constitutional liberty.
The article says it all where it says that words like commonsense or most Americans are supposed to take the place of the Constitution where it says all Americans have the same rights. It seems to me that laws like these were used against Blacks in the south so they could not vote. Maybe George Orwell was right in 1984, all animals have rights but some have more rights than others. That’s the way of Liberals and Democrats.
People without arms are Subjects Period and that is what the want that is why the criminals don,t go to gun shows and police stations to kill people because they know they want last long there but gun free Zones a peice of cake you know who would rush a man with a gun with a small knife or blackjack? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
These folks in Massachusetts need to go back and reread the SECOND AMENDMENT of the Constitution.
I believe it states “SHALL NOT INFRINGE UPON”. Since it seems this Chief of Police has set himself up as
a DICTATOR my response to him in his little essay would be as follows, I need this permit to protect myself against
Little Tin Horn DICTATORS much like you.
This is stupid ! Total BS ! If every American would have to write a essay , nobody in West Virginia would be allowed to own a gun . Seventy percent of them never finished the 4th Grade , and they are all married to their sisters and cousins .
None of their damned business why I want a weapon.
These bureaucrats and these politicians are civil servants who are working for the people. The people pay taxes so to hire these helpers to serve them and if these helpers get out of line then they should fire them and don’t just complain these idiots suppose to serve you and let them know that the people are paying their salary.
This is ludicrous, these civil servants swear the oath to protect the people and the county then they turn around biting the hand that feed them. The people should not allow that and let them know that ‘YOU ARE THE BOSS’.
ACLU? Where is a muslime terrorist when you need one?
Mass. and other lib Blue states and or urban cities that are run by brain dead lib Dems, hate guns , hate the Const., hate liberty. By the way, can you imagine any illegal, Islamist, minority gang member wanting to write an essay when they get their weapons from stealing or buying them illegally? And home defense people have to go through all the lib hoops just to defend themselves????
JUST MORE PROGRESSIVE COMMUNIST SOCIALIST DEMOCRAT VIOLATING THE
CONSTITUTION AGAIN !!!! IT IS NOT PUBLIC SAFETY ….It is hard to take
over a country when it is armed that is why the ISLAMIC communist
progressive socialist democrat party wants you guns. OH but they are
planing on keeping their guns so only the terrorist and the Thugs will
have guns.
Carry Permits are in the State of Residence, not the “local” residence address or domicile in my State. They are a “Shall Issue” Document, issued by the “State Police” (Highway Patrol).
So there you have it folks. One person determining the fate of many. Must be a Communistic principle.
It is your enemy, it is the bureaucrat.
Can the Lowell PD and the City Council write essays? More liberal BS.
It’s the GOV’T. that should be writing an “essay” with concrete proof that someone SHOULDN’T possess a gun. As usual, “Progressives” twisted it around. They keep stealing power from The People. This being Massachusetts, we all know who’ll be “approved” : (allies of the Kennedys), and who’ll be “disapproved”: (opponents of the Kennedys and any other “Progressive”.)
Ummm…I admit to being clueless on this, but how does city council get to force others to do something beyond what is required by state law??
Gun control plain and simple.
Vote the tyrants out of office; and/or act to remove him for violating his oath of office, via filing a Second Amendment Violation of Civil Rights against him. Shalom!
It appears that your opposition comes from a belief that gun owners are too ignorant to write. Is that because you are looking in a mirror? I am more accepting of my brethren.
This is a very good example of how badly our schools are failing us. The entire city council of Lowell , Mass. can not read and understand what the term– “shall not be infringed”– in our U.S. constitution actually says and means. I am, however, giving them the benefit of the doubt —- It is also possible that they are all extreme liberals who have been drinking too much of obummer’s cool aid.
I want to know when we are going to start putting the stupid people who come up with these stupid laws in jail for trying to make us pay for our god given right. These morons really should go to jail for trying to take our Constitutional Rights away from the people.
“The U.S. Supreme Court broadly and unequivocally held that licensing or registration of any Constitutional Right is itself UNCONSTITUTIONAL”. Follett vs. McCormick, S.C. 321 U.S. 573 (1944)
Ex lax needs to send a cartoon to the city council members who are obviously in sore need of the product. It’s truly coming out their ears. The company does guarantee their product. It may evidently be too late though…they already have taken a like to the taste by now. And to think they rationalize infringing on a citizens constitutional rights.
The idiots who try to ban guns are the one who have a security detail around then 24 -7 365
Lol-that’s all they need to say, that it’s their God given right for self/family protection every bit as much as it is for those protected by heavily armed security, and that those granting or denying those rights are no more important or entitled to protection than anyone else. Oh so logical and simple. And if you’re not comfortable carrying, that’s okay too. I get that not everyone is, but you can rest assured that a proficient carrier is nearby, that they’ll probably have your back, especially if you’re a female with kids, minor, or didn’t initiate the problem in any way.
I guess that this asshole is a moron.That means that each and everyone of the cops have to write a Essay,too.Just because they are cops,don’t make them special.
When they come to get my guns I won’t be groveling and asking may I?
These assholes want an essay!?! What a fucking joke.
No. Please leave my property.
A King may defend his castle. I’ll defend mine.
I think the people of this town need to require their “representatives” to write a 1000 word essay on why they should be voted into office or retained in that office. That should be hilariously funny to read some of them !!!
when the citizens of those states decide to stop being slaves and start recall campaigns to remove them from office they will get the message. Until then keep quiet and pay your taxes. Keep voting in the same kind of scum for another term.
Who will grade these essays? Are they even teaching students to ‘write’ anymore?
Here’s to YOU!!! K.M.A!!! F.Y!!! I beg NO MAN for my Constitutional RIGHTS… I WILL protect Myself and MY Family with DEADLY Force!!!
You don’t like it then MOVE to some other COUNTRY!!! Get the FK OUT!!!
Can the characters whose wet dreams brought forth this requirement read?
Does the Constitution say to make the 2nd Amendment legal you must write an essay?? IT DOES NOT and doing so you may be committing TREASON.
You do NOT have to write an essay to make you feel sorry about owning a weapon to defend yourself!!
Lowell is a war zone. We wouldn’t want the good law abiding citizens who live in the God Given Liberal Hell Hole their second amendment right to self defense now would we? I bet there are more illegal guns than legal ones there.
If I were forced to do that, I would write an essay on the value of the Second Amendment.
Screw you to them they have zero authority over my 2nd amendment rights I would carry regardless. This government overstep is out of control we need to arm up and stockpile ammo because they ARE coming for it.
So, Lowell, Massachusetts city council, HOW did trusting the government to take care of them WORK OUT for the Native American Indians?
More insanity from Democrats.
Only the law abiding would be capable of writing an essay. The thugs who get their guns illegally aren’t intelligent enough to write an essay and so they are exempt.