BOSTON — If you let the Bay State serve as an example, the answer to gun violence may be stricter controls on who can keep and carry firearms, according to the head of a statewide law enforcement group.
“Here in Mass., obviously we have some of the most strict gun laws in the country. We also have a great track record when it comes to school shootings,” Mark Leahy, executive director of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, told the Herald. “One is too many, but when you compare us to some states that haven’t been as lucky, there is a big difference.”
His comments come in the wake of the massacre of 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, where the 18-year-old gunman apparently purchased hundreds of rounds of ammunition and several semiautomatic weapons just days after his birthday.
