In light of recent events, including the Boston bombing’s, and increased number of school shootings, Boston’s finest has decided that it is time for them to increase their arsenal with the addition of 33 AR15 rifles.
The only problem with this idea is that one man stands in their way. Mayor-elect Martin J. Walsh does not like AR15’s and feels that his police department doesn’t need them to keep the people of Boston safe. “Mayor-elect Walsh is opposed to the AR-15 rifles,” his spokeswoman Kathryn Norton said in a short statement yesterday. “Unless otherwise convinced by the Boston Police Department, he does not think they are necessary.”
The proposal is for 33 AR15’s coming in at the amount of $2,500 each. They would go to two specially trained officers in each of their 11 precincts. It has not been stated where the other 11 would end up. It would be safe to assume that each precinct would have one backup rifle.
According to Boston police spokesman Sgt. Mike McCarthy the rifles would be strictly regulated and would not be used during routine patrol. Use of the weapons could include an active-shooter incident, firing on a suspect from a distance and confronting a suspect wearing body armor.
Evidently Martin Walsh has not seen the footage from the North Hollywood shootout in 1997 where officers were outgunned and had to resort to a local gun store to acquire AR15’s to fight the gunmen who had much more superior firepower available. Then again maybe he knows he can rely on the heavy police presence that was evident during the manhunt for alleged Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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