New Bedford Mayor Scott W. Lang told state lawmakers yesterday that if they want to get serious about gun violence, they need to approve tougher laws and come up with more money.Amazing what some people will do to ban guns.
Mayor Lang appeared at a Public Safety Committee oversight hearing on youth gun violence with Bristol County District Attorney-elect Samuel Sutter, New Bedford Police Chief Ronald Teachman and Carl Alves, who coordinates an anti-gang grant program for the city.
"In New Bedford, we regard guns as a weapon of mass destruction," Mayor Lang told the committee. "We think they are a weapon of mass destruction throughout our cities and towns throughout the United States."
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Mass. Gun Grab
South Coast Today reports: