Imagine a Massachusetts police chief standing outside a Planned Parenthood office and stopping women from going inside. Imagine the woman being told he didn’t find her “suitable” to receive abortion services.

Now imagine that same police chief outside City Hall, looking over the same-sex couples showing up to get marriage certificates and sending the “unsuitable” ones away. “I just don’t think you’re marriage material, guys.”

It’s, well … unimaginable.

And yet that’s precisely the state of Massachusetts gun laws today. But not for long.

A group called Comm2A has filed a series of lawsuits challenging the Massachusetts policy of letting local police chiefs decide whether or not the Second Amendment applies to you. Across Massachusetts, citizens with no criminal record or mental health issues are regularly denied gun licenses by local cops, just because the police don’t find them “suitable.”

“When we brought our first case,” Comm2A’s Brent Carlton told me, “the judge told me that, under Massachusetts law, a police chief could deny an application if he didn’t like your moustache.”

Once again, we’re talking about a citizen’s constitutional rights.

And unlike the “right” to an abortion or a marriage certificate, the right to “keep and bear arms” is explicitly enumerated in the U.S. Constitution. The Massachusetts Constitution affirms that right as well.

But for some reason, the same liberals who take the most extreme positions on the allegedly constitutional rights of abortion and marriage are happy to assault your indisputable Second Amendment rights.

Yes, Ed Markey, I’m talking about you.

U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, a former pro-life politician turned “I’ll do anything to get elected” liberal, is courageously running TV ads attacking … a dead Hollywood actor.

The star of Markey’s ad campaign is deceased former National Rifle Association chief Charlton Heston. The camera starts with Heston holding a musket over his head and intoning “cold, dead hand.”

Attacking Charlton Heston in Massachusetts is about as courageous as talking up higher taxes at a Deval Patrick dinner party.

What takes courage in Massachusetts is to stand up for basic constitutional rights. The folks at Comm2A are quick to point out they are not a conservative group. “We want liberals involved in this fight,” Carlton said. “If they believe in the Constitution, they should be.”

Ah, but what would make any contemporary observer believe that Markey & Co. have any great love for the Constitution and the limits it places on state power? Markey believes the state should be involved in every aspect of your life, from picking your doctor to — no joke — keeping you off roller coasters.

How about some true courage? Imagine Markey standing up and saying, “We have the Constitution to protect the rights of the unpopular, not the popular. I know gun ownership is unpopular in my liberal state, but as a liberal it is my duty to defend gun owners and their rights!”

[Pause for laughter to subside]

Liberals defend the Second Amendment in Massachusetts? Heck, we can’t even get Republicans to defend it. Have you heard any of the GOP Senate candidates talking about it? I haven’t.

Once upon a time, a Massachusetts Democrat said, “All politics is local.”

Today, it’s “All principles are negotiable.”

Michael Graham hosts a weekday talk show from noon to 3 p.m. on the New England Talk Network.?Follow him on Twitter?@IAMMGraham or at? www.michaelgraham.com.