Politicians Call for More Gun Laws After Memorial Drive Embarrassment
Massachusetts gun laws continue to be a dangerous failure for the world to see.
Ever since the passage of the Gun Control Act of 1998, and more recently Chapter 135 of 2024, GOAL has been tirelessly pointing to the horrific failures of the Commonwealth’s anti-Second Amendment policies. The attack Monday, May 11, 2026, on Memorial Drive in Cambridge made our arguments crystal clear.
The Commonwealth’s attack on the Second Amendment community started a quarter of a century ago. Since then, the data provided by the State’s own Department of Public Health has demonstrated a drastic rise in gun related homicides.
“The only law that saved lives on Memorial Drive was the Second Amendment,” said Jim Wallace, Executive Director of GOAL. “An armed citizen stopped what could have been a blood bath, but the Commonwealth’s politicians can only call for more laws. They can’t help themselves because that would mean they would have to admit their policies have been a complete failure.”
The previous crimes of the Memorial Drive terrorist should have kept him in prison for many decades. Instead, he was back on the streets in three years. This isn’t a failure of the system, it is the system.
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/reckless-gunfire-legislation-massachusetts-cambridge/3949044/
This is the new law being called for:
SECTION 1. Chapter 265 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2020 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following new section:
Section 15G. Whoever without regard for the risk of serious bodily injury to another intentionally or recklessly discharges a firearm, large capacity weapon, rifle, shotgun, sawed-off shotgun, or machine gun and thereby causes a substantial risk of serious bodily injury to another shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 5 years or by imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 2 ½ years.
2023 is the latest data available from the state.