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Giant anti-gun billboard coming down

The Globe reports John Rosenthal is trying to find a new place for the billboard now that he's sold his Lansdowne Garage to the Red Sox, which don't feel like reminding turnpike motorists of how many people die from gunshot wounds.

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If the placed it on Morton

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Cause the people living down there are the ones with all the power and making all the decisions about gun laws.

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You're right, the sign should be updated to say how many people were killed with legally obtained firearms vs illegally, that way we could see how effective the gun laws are!

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You do realize that before a gun was illegal it was legal?
We should probably try and see if less guns overall means less illegal ones by trying something out because the current situation is not working. I would imagine that if the only legal, civilian guns in the country were hunting rifles and shotguns there would be a lot less handguns floating around as the supply of such would be very small.

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Supply has gone through the roof over the past 20 years and yet crime has gone down.

Drugs on the other hand are more banned than ever and becoming an exponentially worse problem.

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You do realise that DUIs are caused with legal alcohol?

We should try and see if less booze overall leads to less drunken behavior.

I would imagine if legal alcohol in the country were limited to denatured rubbing alcohol and medicinal syrup the carnage on our roads would be very low.

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Well most of the crime with illegal guns is being committed in that area by people ignoring the current laws. Putting the sign some place where it is seen by people obeying current laws and not committing any crimes doesn't seem to do much. It's like putting up a scoreboard for the # of STD cases in the middle of a nunnery instead of across the street from a brothel.

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They should put it up in Millennium Park.

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Don't want to advertise the bad reality. Denial...hide the facts.

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Side question for you Dan Kennedy types: Should the Globe story have included the "Fenway Sports Group, which is controlled by John Henry, who also owns the Boston Globe" disclosure? Maybe it depends on how much of a business story you think this is for Henry & Co. It's been long agreed that the disclosure isn't needed for every gamer that Pete Abraham files. To me, though, this story feels like it might have legs, especially if any interest groups decide that this billboard should be a battleground for the cause.

The reporter's question about whether FSG will talk about extending the billboard lease feels like the first step out of the classic Globe playbook: (1) they report a story on which the editorial board has an opinion, presumably here that the billboard should stay up at least until it finds a new home or maybe even longer, and (2) an editorial to that effect appears a couple days later. Except this time, FSG's ultimate decision will be that of the Globe's owner. It's hard to picture them editorializing about such a decision, even though the story seems to telegraph the Globe's stance.

Not that the reporter equals the ed board 1-to-1, or that they all think the same thing. Meh, clearly I don't know what I'm talking about. Feels like an interesting dynamic, though.

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So maybe some deal can be struck with the various eunuchs and dilettantes over at the Glob to put it on Morrissey Blvd or something. There's even more drive by traffic there.

Nice bunch of dog whistles from the anonamids.

Were I a pooch I'd be running in circles.

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Or uncomfortable truth? I know in your mind everyone is equal and exactly half of the shootings are done by Brioni-clad, Patek Phillippe-wearing, lily-white bankers from the financial district using their perfectly legal firearms, but that is just not the case.

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So it truly was impossible to start a discussion that would end up anywhere but here. Oh well, worth a try. Didn't think it'd take just two replies, though. Thanks Chris and anon!

edit: I should have just gone straight to the source for my fix.

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.. on decision processes of a doomed tree ware thing no longer drips the juices it once did.

Tree ware is the new billionaires toy. Bezos buys WAPO with couch change from Amazon and driver man here figures it would be cute to own a daily.

It makes perfect sense that a quasi doomed thing like public broadcast would find it noteworthy in the way someone slowly dying is following the progress of someone in death rattle mode.

So much of this assuming really depends on faith that this wheezing carcass is still influential.

I did wrap my usual derisive snark around a practical suggestion.

If Steel Driver is so worried about wounding the delicate fifis of motorists hurtling by a sideways sign on a grim hell stretch of the pike, he can always put the rebuke billboard over by Glob HQ where they can really put their editorial money where their mealy mouths are.

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..crimes that are predator capitalism in its more rudimentary forms... gang banging as opposed to a motley of angry euromutt guys who shoot spouses, have road rage problems, blow away some dad over a theater texting dispute and what have you.

Gang banger gun crime is at least unruly business.

Gun Passion crimes are usually men with horrible self control issues.

So if you added up all the gun corpses it's probably a wash. For every crack drive by there is an equal and opposite girlfriend jealousy shooting or some dim geezer shooting a mail carrier or door knocker in some paranoid spasm.

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Of course it's a wash, that's why rich guys in Swellesley kill their wives just as frequently as Annie Dookham's boys do in Murderpan.

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Paranoid lawyers. Same reason that they always report a person's documented statements to police as "alleged" statements.

And it;s interesting to note that both of these scenarios have the exact same effect on most of their readers - they add no value whatsoever to the content of the story, and serve to insult their intelligence.

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Do the Red Sox plan to add additional seating on top of the garage?

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