“I don’t characterize this as a gang issue so much as a violence issue amongst young people who are willing to carry weapons and utilize them to resolve conflict,’’ Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr. said.
So when a pair of Cambodian Bloods gets kicked out of a party, then return with rifles and hose down a room, it's not a gang issue? Ok, Gerald, makes sense to me. No gang problem in Lowell.
This really shouldn't be surprising given Gerald Leone's characterizations of other crimes... here are a few other things he very well may have said in the past:
"I don't really see this as a rape so much as a case of a man forcefully penetrating a woman without her consent."
"I don't think this is a case of terrorism as much as a few young men flying planes into buildings."
"I wouldn't characterize this as a suicide so much as someone jumping off a bridge to end his own life."
It looks to me like Leone wants to blame the crime on an easy target - the availability of guns, instead of doing real policing to convict and imprison for life the Cambodian gang members in Lowell.
Thoughts on competitive shooting, gunsmithing, gun control and what it's like to be a Massachusetts gun owner.
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