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Charlestown man charged with using realistic-looking toy gun in Medford road-rage incident
By adamg on Wed, 11/11/2015 - 9:26am
State Police report arresting Gary Pimentel, 20, of Charlestown, on charges he reacted to some sort of traffic conflict on an I-93 ramp by pointing a realistic-looking toy gun at another driver around 4:30 p.m. yesterday.
State Police say the woman he allegedly pointed the toy at called Medford Police and then followed him as he drove through Medford, where he was stopped and arrested by a Medford officer - who they say found him with a toy gun with its orange tip painted black.
Pimentel is scheduled for arraignment Thursday in Somerville District Court on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct.
Innocent, etc.
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How about this: Figure out however much 3 months in jail would cost the state and write him a check for this if he agrees to leave the northeast and never come back. He'd be happier in a state where he could have a real gun anyway.
I don't want these people in jail or probation or anything else. I just want them sent far away and never to return.
After a felony conviction he
After a felony conviction he would be a Prohibited Person for life and never be able to legally own a firearm anywhere in the US.
Wonderful
Let's just export our idiot problem, even though our area created him.
Terrorizing people with guns is okay if he does it somewhere else? You might think differently if he went free and then did this again to your family while you were vacationing at Disney World.
I wasn't being serious
The plan of paying criminals to leave MA wouldn't be legal even if it was a nice thought.
My tongue in cheek comment was more regarding the frustration of dealing with people like this. Not matter what they will be a drain on society. Send them to jail? That cost the state money and is unlikely to "reform" this person. if anything else it will only make them more likely to commit a criminal act worst then threatening someone with a fake gun.
Put them on probation? It's still going to cost the state time and money and is unlikely to make this person actually come to their senses as to why normal people don't do shit like this.
Dismiss the case? Not fair to anyone. There needs to be punishment for threatening to kill someone.
So we're stuck with the asshole.
Yes, yes we are
Perhaps some thoughts about not creating entitled drivers and assholes in the first place would be more constructive? Masshole prevention?
You act like this is problem
You act like this is problem exclusive to MA. Plenty of entitlement, idiots, drunks et. al everywhere you go.
Everyday I'm thankful I don't
Everyday I'm thankful I don't live in the south where you pretty much have to assume that every psycho on the road has a real loaded gun. Maybe New Hampshire, too, I don't know, I'm just glad Mass is a little more sane.
Wacko statement on so many
Wacko statement on so many levels, including "I'm just glad Mass is a little more sane." That part is all in your head.
Unlike Swrrly, however, I don't have most of my work day to spend writing a long reply.
Awww
Try some of this, dear - it really helps with the butthurt!
Oh, and be reminded that it is a holiday today. Why do you hate us veterans so much?
Here's SwirlyGrrl...
...criticizing me not only for working today, but assuming that a) I had a choice in the matter and b) because of that, I hate veterans.
Wow.
Not really
Mostly for being a childish troll.
Spot on.
One of the many reasons I moved from Northward to MA, but not north any further.
Or maybe people who grew up
Or maybe people who grew up around guns respect firearms and don't go around waving fake ones like some kind of wack ass wannabe. It's probably silly to make assumptions either way, but I'm willing to bet there are WAY more people around you carrying guns than you would think, even here in Mass. You don't hear or know about them, because they aren't the type of unhinged lunatics in your bizarre fantasy.
True
Where I live in western Mass, there's a lot of firearms ownership -- I'm probably the only person in my neighborhood that doesn't own one. People use them for hunting and for target shooting -- I've never heard of anyone wanting to carry a firearm for self-defense, and I've never heard of the sort of ridiculous brandishing-in-the-starbucks nonsense you hear about. There are people who use firearms appropriately, as tools, and then there are people who use them as some sort of fantasy prop. Fortunately the latter are rare.
again
The reason you may not hear about people "wanting to carry a firearm for self-defense" is because they simply don't talk about it outside the realm of people they know very closely or fellow carriers. The range bubbas and starbucks attention whores are regarded with equal -- or perhaps more -- disdain among regular gun owners and carriers who just want to do their thing and mind their own business. For most reasonable people with the proper mindset and training, it's a tool that they hope they never have to use in the context of defense.
For some reason these stories
For some reason these stories keep popping up from places with high rates of gun ownership:
"driver shoots 4 year old in road rage incident" http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/21/us/child-road-rage-death/
"driver shoots other driver for driving too slow" http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/angry-driver-shoots-georgia-woman-in-the...
and here's a handy chart showing Mass at the bottom of gun ownership and gun death rates:
https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/V2tjI1mQpTW4NJ7Uz5mjFtluyqU=/cdn0.vox-c...
Mass is fortunate to good
Mass is fortunate to good hospitals. We have a higher violent crime rate than any other state in NewEngland. Which pisses me off since almost every city in Connecticut a dump!
{{citation needed}}
{{citation needed}}
"handy chart"
Yeah, your chart plots %gun ownership in households against gun deaths per 100,000. Do you think the people out committing firearm related offenses are going to register their weapons or offer up polling stats in any meaningful way? We have a required registry here, so you can be assured that legal ownership is not under-reported. Showing that Mass is at the bottom of gun ownership and gun death rates is meaningless when the former group are not the major contributors to the latter.
I'm not sure I follow
State A has required registry, so "legal ownership is not under-reported".
State B does not have required registry, so legal ownership may be under-reported (is that the idea?), i.e., there may be many more legal guns out there than we know of.
State B has a higher rate of gun deaths than State A.
And you conclude that, of necessity, illegal guns -- in a state that is more tolerant of non-registered legal guns -- account for the difference? It seems like it would be the opposite. What am I missing?
And for some reason...
And for "some reason" during your search to support your side of the legal guns issue, you can find all the links you want to find about all the stories you want to see, yet you choose to bury your head in the sand when it comes to these stories..(stories where I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that one of the very last thoughts the victims had might have been "I wish I had a gun right now") ...
Just click your heels together three times and pretend this will never happen to you, Rose...but I can tell you that it is (please God, never to my family) less likely to happen to my wife and/or daughter, since my wife owns and carries her legal Ruger 9mm and my daughter her legal Glock 9mm. Also, Rose, there are 400,000 other law-abiding legal citizens of MA who also carry a firearm on their person every day, everywhere. I also carry, every day.
And if/when (God forbid, heaven forbid, for the last thing any of us ever wants to do is use our firearm) - some whacked out meth head or terrorist wannabe grabs you and wants to slice your throat for fun or for sport, in the THREE TO SEVEN SECONDS on average that a person has to save their own life when evil strikes, you yourself might be glad that I, or my wife, or my daughter, or some other good person with a gun will produce a firearm and order the rapist/murderer/terrorist etc to drop their weapon and leave you alone, let you live...Let you finish living your ONE LIFE that God gave you and that no evil human has the right to end prematurely....
Additionally, Rose, there is the story of the therapist whose patient "flipped out" and began stabbing her at a MGH annex on Beacon Hill a few years ago. As she was being stabbed, as the knife was about to plunge into her one (final?) more time, a legal, law abiding licensed firearm owner who had heard her blood-curdling death screams burst in, ordered the attacker to STOP,and when the attacker ignored him and went to plunge the blade of the knife into his victim one more (final) time, the law abiding "good guy with a gun" discharged his weapon and ended the threat, saving the innocent victim from further (fatal) wound.
There are many, MANY of us out here, Rose, law-abiding GOOD who exercise our 2nd Amendment rights and carry guns. Yes, guns. EIGHTY MILLION law abiding, legal gun owners, and there aren't (despite what CNN and Hillary the liar and criminal want you to believe) 80 million dead bodies lying about the streets each and every day, having been killed by these "bad" law abiding citizens exercising their Constitutional right to self preservation and protection. Because, Rose, the world is, although we'd like it not to be, sometimes an extremely evil place.
Okay
Is this drama club meets young mercenaries club drivel what passes for arguments on the subject these days?
Ever since Mr. Nonexistant Gradstudents got outed as falsifying and making up his survey data and conclusions about defensive use of weapons?
Hmmm.
Meanwhile, we are looking at solid data indicating that for every defensive use of a gun, there are 22 to 40 tragedies.
Meanwhile a cop in Medford
Meanwhile a cop in Medford can threaten a driver with a gun and get off with a resignation, his carry for life rights, and retirement....