Who will guard the guards themselves?

That’s the eternal question that comes to mind as you read the Democrats’ unconstitutional 122-page gun grab bill now hurtling towards the governor’s desk at the State House.

Much of the confiscation of legal firearms from law-abiding citizens will be charged to the second-most corrupt law-enforcement agency in the United States (after the FBI).

I refer of course to the Massachusetts State Police.

By rough count, the disgraced MSP are mentioned 38 times in the new legislation, and the colonel pops up 44 times.

What could possibly go wrong?

William F. Buckley Jr. once famously said that he would rather be governed by the first 100 names in the Boston telephone book than by the faculty of Harvard University.

To update Buckley’s comment, I would prefer the state’s gun laws be enforced by the first 100 names on the membership rolls of the Gun Owners Action League (GOAL) than by the MSP.

For sure, GOAL members are a much more law-abiding bunch than the troopers. Gun owners with LTCs have much lower rates of recidivism than the State Police when it comes to, among other crimes, embezzling, drunk driving (with fatalities), drug overdoses, spousal abuse and lewd and lascivious conduct.

This the State Police m.o.: They alter crime reports to protect the junkie children of hack state judges. Troop E out on the Pike openly operated as a racketeering enterprise, stealing millions of dollars.

The troopers send “inappropriate texts.” At least one of them used to routinely post racist messages on social media and cheered whenever there was a police shooting. Then he went out on the road and shot a black guy, after which he was charged with a&b with a deadly weapon.

Am I right “Big Irish?”

These are the cops who are about to be charged with grabbing your guns. They have a motto: To protect and steal. Their other motto is: To protect and (over)serve.

Today let’s ponder the priors of the people who will be abrogating your Constitutional rights in this outrageous power grab.

Consider Section 121C, which states that the State Police colonel “shall promulgate rules and regulations implementing a statewide firearm surrender program.”

Really? Surrendering firearms to the State Police?

Do you recall any of these headlines?

“State Police trooper admits getting free guns, is cooperating in criminal probe.”

“Two retired state troopers face charges for allegedly illegal arrangements with gun dealers.”

Until a few months ago, the colonel was an arrogant, overbearing hack named Christopher Mason. He had a young son named Reid Mason. The lad was encountered by cops in Hyannis one morning after last call hanging out of his SUV, reeking of booze.

Inside Mason’s van, the Barnstable PD found five firearms, one of which, a Glock 17, was both unregistered and unlicensed. The local cops never released details on the magazines he had for his unregistered, unlicensed Glock 17, some of which are much less available to non-law enforcement, if you get my drift.

Nothing serious happened to young Mason because… professional courtesy. Col. Daddy now pockets an annual state pension of $194,602 a year.

Speaking of guns, remember the drunkard trooper from Bristol County who had himself a third-rate romance, low-rent rendezvous in Providence in 2020?

He and his gal pal guzzled $200 worth of martinis — this came out in the official MSP report. The lovebirds then checked into a no-tell hotel in downtown Providence. In his eagerness to get down to hanky-panky, the trooper neglected to lock his unmarked MSP cruiser. Local gangbangers stole his fully loaded Smith & Wesson.

These are the law-enforcement professionals who will be oppressing you, but not themselves or the colonel’s son.

The bill includes a massive expansion of “red flag” laws to confiscate guns from Enemies of the Deep State.

The solons might as well call them “red hat” laws, because they’ll only be used against US citizens wearing MAGA caps.

Do you suppose any red flag laws will ever be enforced against the state trooper charged in Wrentham with beating his second wife? Or the trooper who was arrested in Attleboro for allegedly threatening to kill his girlfriend four times? Or the one who assaulted the woman who wasn’t his wife in New Hampshire, or the one who broke a woman’s tibia outside a bar in Dorchester?

How about the cop in western Mass who was charged in court with pushing his wife’s face into an unflushed toilet? That trooper didn’t get fired, or jailed. He got promoted to lieutenant, and now makes $172,080 a year.

These are the very ethical cops who will be writing a “uniform curriculum” for your firearms training. I’m sure they’ll say don’t use drugs while armed, although a trooper in the gang unit confiscated 23 grams of cocaine, went home to Middleborough and immediately suffered a “medical emergency.”

How about the trooper who ran over a motorcyclist in Dorchester in 2021? He’d been barhopping all night. Detectives said he “spoke with a thick tongue.”

Remember the Foxboro Flasher? He shot a bad guy in Boston, and was never the same. He was bagged in a drunken brawl in Las Vegas. Two weeks later, at a country music concert in Foxboro, he ingested another bad ice cube. The trooper exposed himself in the stands and then came on to a guy, as his girlfriend watched.

For his lewd, lascivious and wanton conduct, the Foxboro Flasher now grabs a lifetime tax-free state pension of $66,688, even though he’s not yet 40.

Under the new gun-grab law, do you think you would be ever able to get an LTC if you were a) a drug dealer, b) a drug abuser, c) a money launderer, d) the live-in moll of a drug kingpin, and e) an admitted perjurer?

Probably not, but Leigha Genduso copped to all the above, and was immediately appointed to the State Police. The crooked MSP gave the ex-barmaid a cruiser, a badge, a K-9 and… a gun. After ratting out her gangster boyfriend, the career criminal set up light housekeeping with a future lieutenant colonel of the State Police who is now collecting a pension of $162,638 a year.

One final provision of the new law: the colonel “shall produce” an annual report detailing crimes committed in the Commonwealth using firearms.

I think the report should include an appendix of all the crimes committed by the MSP. Some years it’ll run longer than all the crimes committed by the rest of us.

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A man has died following a morning stabbing in a residential area of Mattapan.

Boston Police responded to 18 Rugby Road in Mattapan shortly before 11 a.m. Thursday and found a man suffering from a stab wound outside the home at that address, according to BPD Deputy Superintendent Paul McLaughlin, who spoke from the scene in the afternoon.

Boston EMS treated the victim at the scene before transporting him to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead, McLaughlin said.

A Honda CR-V crossover SUV was towed from the scene, but McLaughlin did not provide details on how the car may relate to the incident.

While the investigation is in its early stages, McLaughlin said that the suspect — who has not been found — and the victim were known to each other, which he said reduces possible concerns for the safety of other residents of the neighborhood.

100+ rounds recovered in traffic stop

Boston Police were patrolling the area of Fottler Road Tuesday night in Mattapan following an area homicide when they saw a vehicle with heavy tinting and expired registration and decided to make a traffic stop, according to a police statement.

The police apparently recognized the driver, Nyjohn Jones, 19, of Mattapan, who apparently refused to be identified and told him to exit the vehicle. Police conducted a frisk and allegedly found a loaded 9mm pistol on him. In addition to the 10 rounds in the gun, police say they found another 99 live rounds in the car.

Police arrested Jones and booked him for numerous firearms-related charges.

That’s not a Dave’s Single

A man who was pulled over on Route 195 in Dartmouth and found to have 552 pink pills of methamphetamine in a Wendy’s bag last year has been sentenced to four to six years in state prison.

A State Trooper pulled over a vehicle driven by Matthew Chicoine, 32, of Harwich, on May 26, 2022, for using a cellphone while driving and abruptly changing lanes without signalling, according to the Bristol DA’s office. The trooper wrote in his report that Chicoine was “physically shaking and sweating profusely.”

Woman killed in Malden crash involving ICE SUV

A pedestrian was killed when two SUVs collided at a traffic light in Malden.

An SUV transporting two Boston-based Enforcement and Removal Operations officers with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was stopped on Main Street in Malden at a traffic light at the intersection with Mountain Avenue Thursday afternoon when a southbound BMW SUV collided with it, according to authorities.

The BMW left the roadway, struck two telephone poles and fatally struck the woman, according to the Middlesex DA’s office. The woman, who authorities did not identify by the evening, was transported to an area hospital and pronounced dead.

An ICE spokesman told the Herald that “At no time during the incident did the ICE agency vehicle come into contact with the pedestrian; the pedestrian was struck by the SUV, not the ICE agency vehicle.”

The ICE officer were transported to a local hospital to be treated for their own injuries, the spokesman said.

Fall River teen charged with murder

A 17-year-old Fall River boy has been charged with murder for a mid-day shooting in his city that left another teen dead.

Fall River Police responded to the 200-block of Locust Street shortly after noon Saturday for a report of a male gunshot victim and there found Jovanni Perez, 18, of Fall River and East Weymouth, suffering from a gunshot wound. He was transported to Charlton Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1:41 p.m.

On Thursday morning, police arrested Antwyne Robinson, 17, of Fall River, and charged him with Perez’ murder.

Mattapan woman charged with striking, killing UMass pedestrian

Danasia Sampson, 22, of Mattapan, has been charged with one count of motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation for an April 6 crash on the UMass-Dartmouth campus that took the life of pedestrian Frank A. Petillo Jr., a 19-year-old student from New Jersey.

Police found Petillo lying in Ring Road with significant injuries. He was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.

Sampson was also a UMass-Dartmouth student. She is scheduled to be arraigned on the charge in New Bedford District Court on Nov. 7.