"Anthony Circosta, a decorated Iraq War veteran from Agawam, needed a gun permit in Massachusetts to get a promotion at his security guard job and to pursue a possible career as a police officer. But first he needed to have his record cleared of a childhood felony - shooting a classmate in the shoulder with a BB gun when he was 13.
more stories like thisThe Massachusetts clemency board investigated Circosta's case and twice recommended pardoning him. But then-Governor Mitt Romney refused, preserving a record of rejecting every clemency request that crossed his desk."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/01/02/mass_pardon_case_at_center_of_gop_storm/
6 comments:
Proving that Mitt the Shit is not only stupid, but lazy. What a tool.
I know, but guns...My attitude is coloured by the fact that NO-ONE can get a carrying permit in the UK, you can just use a gun in a gun club. Unless you are a member of a Yardie gang or a police armed response unit.
'Tis a different world here in the U.S. The criminals here get guns easier than the law-abiding citizens.
Oh...I forgot to mention that there was one man that Romney thought should receive a pardon when facing jail--Scooter Libby! Yes, Romney's an a-hole in every sense of the word!
Val, Snark's correct about the strange set of circumstances which guides this nation. Many Americans feel that every 'law-abiding' American should have the right to own a gun and are always dismayed when someone goes on a shooting spree. They scratch their collective heads in disbelief and ask how such a person was able to get a gun, failing to see the logic that until they committed these atrocities and in so doing became criminals, they were once the same 'law-abiding' citizens whose rights to own a gun the gun-nuts and NRA demanded in the first place!
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