“Boston anti-gun group leader [is a] disgraced police director,” reads the Boston NOW headline, announcing the opening of the first satellite office for the Washington DC-based Reaching Out to Others Together (ROOT).
“The group says it doesn’t expect its local leader’s past, which included a stint in federal prison, to be a distraction.”
What? An anti-gun group headed by a felon?
"The Root of the Problem," my Rights Watch column for the June 2008 issue of GUNS Magazine, is now online.