Stockstradamus AKA Stocky’s Blog

Todays Globe and all of Boston.com for that matter contains not a word about this person. Jeanne Assam.

Who is she? Some might find her newsworthy. She saved scores of lives yesterday. How did she do it?

With her legally owned Gun.

That’s strike 1 if you’re keeping score for the Globe.

And she praised God for giving her the strength to gun down the scumbag who was shooting up her church.

God?? Strike 2 for the Globies.

She’s a single woman, apparently not gay nor a feminist.

Steeeerike 3!!! She’s out of the paper!!!

Fortunately you can read all about Jeanne by doing a quick Google News search which as of  11:00 AM Tuesday pulls up 726 hits.

The Boston Herald does better. At least they took time out from inserting annoying ads on their web site to include a pretty long AP story which identifies Jeanne as the “security guard” who ended the carnage by shooting the gunman.

Of course any story where a Gun is used in self defense is a “non-story” as far as the Boston Globe is concerned. The Globe has a long history of ignoring those stories.

One that comes immediately to mind was a mid-day shooting in Davis Square  Sommerville. The shooting victim ran from the scene and jumped on the Subway. The Police tracked him from his blood trail and stopped the train in Cambridge, pulled him off the train and placed him under arrest.  

That sounds like a wild scene. A bleeding man running through yuppified Davis Square at 1:00 in the afternoon jumping on the T to avoid arrest. That would make a good episode of some police show.

The story was that a homeowner, home for lunch shot the perp after he broke into his house. The Perp had a history of burglaries but in the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts that still meant the homeowner was held for hours of questioning before he was released.

Surprisingly, this only made Page 2 of the Boston Herald. But at least it made it into the paper. Unsurprisingly, not a word was ever written about the incident in the Boston Globe.

Law abiding citizens defending themselves with legally owned Guns does not fit the Globe’s narrative.

Our do-nothing Governor is beginning to hear some faint criticism from his allies. Todays Boston Globe has a story about a group of Black Harvard Students holding a candlelight vigil to protest the do-nothing Governor doing nothing about violence in Boston.

Oh, wait. My Mistake. The Governors not a Republican???? Scratch the candle light vigil/protest. Let’s call it a “visit”.

Holding lit candles while wearing black suits and dresses, members of the Harvard Black Students Association visited Boston last night to add their voices to the chorus of those challenging Governor Deval Patrick to combat black-on-black youth violence

This follows yesterdays story which also laid a velvet glove on Gov Do-Nothing:

Among the 1,500 mourners was Governor Deval Patrick, who had been admonished a few days earlier by Odom’s mother for doing too little to quell gun violence in the city, the kind of complaint regularly directed toward mayors, not governors. Dickerson told the congregation that some had criticized Kim Odom for “calling the governor out” and asked whether Odom should expect more from Patrick because he is black.

Gun Violence in Boston has been on the rise for several years despite what that series of lying though their teeth billboards on the Mass pike behind Fenway have said. What’s interesting is occasionally the Globe gets it right. Just a few days before these stories were printed the Globe had a story about 3 major cities in Massachusetts where shootings have recently decreased by 45%. Drastically improving the lives of everyone who lives there.

But progress has been made in reducing gun violence, according to police statistics. Reports of shots fired have declined 45 percent through August, and the number of people struck by gunfire has dropped to seven, from 25, through August 2006, according to police. The city had five gun slayings last year but went nearly 10 months until recording the first gun killing of the year, on Sept. 30. New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang, a former prosecutor, is a supporter.

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Hockert-Lotz, who has publicly praised Sutter in opinion pieces published by the Standard-Times newspaper, said Sutter’s approach, and the drop in gun crimes, has given him hope. “New Bedford is the safest it’s been in the 20 years I’ve been doing business,” he said.

The Cities are New Bedford, Fall River and Taunton. 3 of the roughest cities in the State.

Well Holy Shit!!! You might think. Why couldn’t Boston do the same??? Bristol county must have some extra special gun laws to accomplish such a drop in Gun crime. Let’s get busy doing the same thing in Boston. Imagine how many lives could be saved!!!

Sorry, but you would be wrong to think that. It appears that no one in Boston or the State House is interested in reducing gun crimes by 45%. If they were they would be using the Bristol County model. There is nary a peep about what’s going on in Bristol County.

The reason??? 

O’Berg and police in New Bedford and Fall River are pointing to the aggressive move by Sutter as a key reason gun violence and reports of gun violence have seen double-digit drops in the three Bristol County cities since January, when Sutter took office.

While other prosecutors in Eastern Massachusetts seek to hold someone as a danger to society on a case-by-case basis, Sutter requests a hearing whenever anyone is arrested on gun charges.

“We’ve pushed the envelope,” Sutter said. “We haven’t had a 100-percent success rate, but we certainly are pushing it.”

Dangerousness hearings have been held in 58 cases, according to Sutter’s office, and defendants have been ordered held in 45 of them. Fall River has had two gun-related homicides so far this year, and there were two during 2006. But Police Chief John Souza said his city is more peaceful, as the reports of shots fired have dropped by 40 percent through September.

 Go figure. Locking up the scumbags who commit these gun crimes reduces the amount of gun crimes? How shocking is that?

One thing we know for certain is that Gov Do-Nothing will be doing and saying nothing about the success in Bristol County. To advocate locking up inner city thugs would risk a “visit” from the likes of Al Sharpton.

That’s an outrage Gov Do-Nothing will not stand for. And of course, speaking of outrage, there is none from Steve Bailey.

Yesterdays Boston Globe had a very good article by Brian Ballou on Crime in the notorious Franklin Hill Housing Project in Dorchester.

Lots of Bad stuff going on there. Ballou does some nice reporting detailing some of the problems:

After a 48-year-old man was fatally shot Monday night inside a hallway, some residents expressed frustration yesterday over the violence.

“They should just tear this whole place down,” said McKinley Sykes, 60, a longtime tenant in the complex in Dorchester. “I told the management before that, anything short of that won’t solve the problem.”

The body of the victim, identified by sources close to the investigation as Kelvin Alexander of Providence, was found not far from the spot where two other men, Jeffrey Jones, 41, and Jarrid Campbell, 27, were slain July 13 as they sat in a parked car.

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Many tenants clamored for more police foot patrols, especially in areas of the development neighbors know as trouble spots.

“I’m very cautious, because this place just draws the worst kind of people,” said Frederick Bridgewater, 65, who lives in the building. He said he recently refused to open his door after someone professing to be a neighbor knocked and told him his car lights were on. “I didn’t come out, because there was another resident who was busted on the head and robbed some days before,” Bridgewater said.

Jerome Gary, 61, said that he has lived in the development for 14 years and that “it’s never been this bad.” Gary said that he and his grandson “go inside when it gets dark, and we don’t come out.”

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The Rev. William Dickerson, pastor of the nearby Greater Love Tabernacle, said he grew up in the Franklin Hill area. He also said he presided over the funerals of the two men killed in July.

“An increased police presence will calm things down there,” Dickerson said. “We saw a decrease in violence when police began patrolling several hot spots in the city, and that’s commendable, but we also have to change a whole culture that has become violent.”

That place sounds like a disaster. Maybe an article like this will spur the Boston Police and/or the Mayor to do something to help.

In a case like this Stocky parises the Globe for shedding light on a horrible situation without falling into the intellectualy lazy trap of blaming Guns for the problems.

Speaking of intellectualy lazy, that brings me to Steve Bailey. Not a word of outrage from Mr. Bailey on this. You’d think a good liberal like him would be all over this story. Crying out for justice for the poor residents of Franklin Hill.

You would be wrong.

While Mr. Bailey did have a column in yesterdays paper he chose to address the issue of Casinos in Massachusetts. Interestingly enough, the Column was titled “Collateral Damage”. Gambling is bad, economic impact is overstated, blah, blah, blah. You’ve heard it all before.

One wonders if one of these proposed casinos might be near one of Bailey’s vacation homes.

Maybe he should conduct a “sting” operation similar to the one he executed at the NH Gun Show. He could head to one of the Connecticut Casinos and have the Globe buy a bucket of quarters for a chain smoking Senior Citizen living off Social Security.

Said Senior Citizen blows the liberal wad with nothing to show for it and Stevie gets to pontificate about how evil Casinos are.

Stevie could do that if he has time out from defending himself from felony charges, that is.

Just an average story today in the Boston Globe. Cops get in gunfight with gang banger, shots are fired and a cop is wounded. Except that we now learn that the wounded cop was shot by another cop, not the gangbanger.

If the account of the cops is true, the Mass State Trooper shot the perp but the round ricochet’d off the perp’s body and lodged in the chest of the other Cop.

Bad luck for sure but not totally unexpected. Stocky does not know this for sure since it’s not mentioned anywhere in the story but I can almost guarantee that the State Trooper was NOT using hollow point ammo.

You know what Hollow Point ammo is right? The Media has told you over and over again that they are “lethal” and “Viscious” ammo. Used only by people who are intent on causing maximum damage to humans. Apparently there are times when you need to shoot someone but don’t want to Really hurt them. How moronic is that?

The real story of Hollow Point ammo is that it is SAFER than the jacketed ammo likely used in this case by the State Trooper. Hollow Point ammo expands when it hits something. Spreading out and yes, causing maximum damage to what was hit. What it almost never does is ricochet from one place to another.

If that State Trooper had Hollow Point Ammo in his gun, that perp would have stayed hit and Officer Romano would have gone home to his family unhurt.

Jacketed ammo will ricochet off the intended target as well as penetrate doors + walls. In this case you have a highly trained State Trooper who showed good judgement and perfect aim when firing his service weapon yet still an innocent person was hit by the Troppers bullet. Why Law enforcement does not exclusively use Hollow Point ammo is beyong Stocky’s comprehension.

Of course in this pathetic State (Massachusetts) thousand of Law Enforcement personel are carrying state issued weapons that the Attorney General has deemed Unsafe. Pretty much all Glocks manufactured after 1998 are considered “unsafe” by the AG and gun shops that sell them to private citizens are prosecuted. None do.

Law Enforcement personel are excluded and are allowed to purchase the Glocks.

This makes sense??????

Another day, another gang banging thug gets a free pass from a Judge in Massachusetts.

Michelle McPhee does some more excellent work here.

   Last week Boston Municipal Court Associate Justice Annette Forde gave a stay of execution to a convicted gun-toting thug who secreted a loaded weapon - with its serial number filed off - in a “hide” built into a car stereo. The judge’s move is essentially a free pass to stay home while he appeals his jury conviction for gun possession.

    These are the facts of the case:

    Locksley Bailey, 20, was arrested less than two hours after a shooting when the car he was traveling in was approached by Boston cops, who said they who smelled marijuana coming from the windows. He fit the description of the gunman who unloaded a fusillade of bullets on a Dorchester street corner, hitting a man in the buttocks and hand.

A search of the Globe Website finds nary a mention of a “yout” named Locksley Bailey. No surprise there. Stocky bets they will get around to this story in the unlikely event that Locksley actually begins to serve some time. Look for a story on his aspiring rap career with the standard quotes about “turning his life around” along with a heartfelt shoutout or 2 to his kid(s) and his girlfriend suddenly turned fiance.

And of course, not a word of outrage from Steve Bailey.

What do you get when you take a clueless Boston Globe (sorry for the redundancy) “business” writer and let him write about Guns?  Typical liberal kneejerkism followed by holier than thou excuse making and attention diverting attacks on the messenger.

The Steve Bailey Straw purchase is detailed here. To summarize, Stevie is bored with writing boring business stories so he grabs the Globe’s favorite loony leftist gun control nut (John Rosenthal) and he heads to a New Hampshire gun show. Hijinks follow when Stevie uses his El-Globo expense account to have someone else buy him a gun. Otherwise known as a “Straw purchase” and/or a felony. (more…)