UNDERNEWS: Bear and worst states and cities

February 9, 2019

Bear and worst states and cities

BEST PLACES

Best based on ratings, incidents & practices in past year.

STATES
Minnesota
Massachusetts
Vermont New HampshireConnecticut
Colorado
California
Washington
Iowa

CITIES
Seattle Portland OR Irvine Boulder
San Jose Austin Honolulu Fargo Orlando

WORST PLACES
Worst based on ratings, incidents & practices in past year
STATES
Arkansas Mississippi Louisiana West Virginia South Carolina Alabama Oklahoma Georgia New Mexico
Kentucky

CITIES
Detroit
Memphis
Cleveland
Newark St Louis
New Orleans
Miami
Flint
Los Angeles

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Whoever nominated Massachusetts must be quite privileged, since the civil court system, at least as I've experienced it these past few months, is entirely based on the Rule of Men, not Law.

I've begun to feel something akin to gaslighted, actually, since citations of case law and rules of civil procedure have been completely ignored by judges from whom I expected the relief the clear, definitive language of the rules says I'm entitled to.

Another choice bit is that the 2 Assistant Attorneys General who hid from defense attorneys evidence (from the Farak drug-lab scandal) that would have exculpated their clients have now gone on to other lawyer jobs with the state at about double their AAG salaries. Even though a Superior Court judge found that they had committed "Fraud on the Court", they weren't disbarred, suspended, or even admonished.

And, of course, there's the infamous 2-tier filtration of what handguns are allowed to be sold in Massachusetts: to be salable, a handgun must be on BOTH lists, and only the really expensive ones are. The AG's office rubricates its list as a "consumer safety" matter, but it excludes firearms made by major makers that are standard sidearms of police forces and military all around the world.; February 9, 2019 at 1:53 PM

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