Massachusetts AG faces sexist, anti gay slurs after imposing gun ban
Attorney General Maura Healey knew she would get blowback for trying to close a gap in the state’s assault weapons ban. She expected a run on the guns, modified to get around the law, immediately after her July 20 announcement. And since everybody knows the gun lobby and its devotees are well organized, energetic, and seem to have a lot of time on their hands, her office was braced for pushback from Second Amendment absolutists across the country.
What nobody was prepared for was how vile, sexist, and homophobic so much of that pushback would be.
Much of it is unprintable — ugly tirades full of antigay slurs, misogyny, and profanity, including the c-word, slung over and over. Callers shout obscenities and hurl names at the junior staffers who work the AG’s hotline. On YouTube and Facebook and Twitter and gun-lover websites, haters are all over Healey for daring to fulfill the spirit of the law, signed in 1998 by Republican Governor Paul Cellucci.
“Hey witch . . . did you ban pressure cookers too?” somebody wrote, referring to the devices used in the Boston Marathon bombing. “I hope you get throat cancer,” posted another.
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