Mass. Governor Cracked Down on Gun Owners While an Aide Illegally Carried a Pistol and Dealt Coke Right Under Her Nose

The embarrassing arrest of an aide to anti-gun Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey shows that while she has been penalizing law-abiding gun owners, drug and gun crime was apparently happening right under her nose, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.

“While Maura Healey, first as Massachusetts attorney general and for the past few years as the governor, has a track record of penalizing Bay State gun owners,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “she’s evidently been so focused on making honest citizens miserable she overlooked what was happening in her own administration.”

To the state’s credit, the suspect—identified as LaMar Cook, deputy director of Healey’s Western Massachusetts office—was immediately fired. However, CCRKBA noted, that doesn’t really square accounts with Massachusetts gun owners, who have seen their rights eroded by the governor, ostensibly to prevent gun-related crime.

“That may have gotten Healey some good headlines and sound bites,” Gottlieb observed, “but law-abiding citizens shouldn’t be suffering from the anti-gun whims of the state’s top politician while she obviously wasn’t keeping her own house in order. 

“Published reports suggest we’re not talking about some minor offense, either,” he added. “Authorities have reportedly seized several pounds of suspected cocaine, and other charges against Cook include carrying a firearm and ammunition without a permit. Taken in total, we’re looking at some pretty serious allegations involving a senior staffer in the Healey administration. 

“The drug allegations are definitely serious,” Gottlieb stated, “but for an official in Healey’s administration, which has been fanatical about restricting the Second Amendment rights of Massachusetts citizens, to be accused of violating the very gun laws his boss has championed is an insult to every gun owner in the Commonwealth.

“The fact this is happening in Massachusetts, where the American revolution started 250 years ago at Lexington and Concord over an attempt to confiscate the arms of the local militia, is simply astonishing,” Gottlieb concluded. “Gov. Healey should never again support or sign a single gun control measure, but her track record suggests she will use this case as an excuse to push even more radical restrictions, and for this she should be ashamed.”