Posted on 01/28/2015 1:32:57 PM PST by Teotwawki
One New York state lawmaker believes that allowing children younger than 12 to attend gun shows increases the possibility that the youngsters will be future perpetrators of firearm crimes.
Concerned that the firearms industry is making firearms and shooting sports too appealing to children, Hell’s Kitchen-area New York state lawmaker Linda Rosenthal wants to ban children from entering gun shows.
“As the gun industry prepares a public campaign to broaden the appeal of guns, it is important that we establish reasonable age limits for admission to gun shows by children,” the lawmaker said in a memo attached to her proposal. “Within New York State and other areas of jurisdiction, we have myriad regulations that seek to protect minors from exposure to certain potentially dangerous situations and influences.”
Rosenthal reasons that children should be restricted from gun shows in much the same way they’re restricted from “watching films or playing certain video games that portray deadly weaponry and gunplay.”
“Currently, however, minors of any age may gain unfettered access to a gun show,” she lamented in the memo.
Rosenthal’s legislation makes no provision for youth gun show attendance with a parent or guardian, simply stating that it would, “PROHIBIT ENTRANCE TO THE GUN SHOW OF ANY PERSON WHO IS UNDER THE AGE OF TWELVE YEARS OF AGE.”
“As our State continues to look for solutions to violence involving guns, we must begin by limiting the exposure of young children to these weapons and their capabilities,” the New York lawmaker said in her memo.
Guns.com tried unsuccessfully to get Rosenthal to explain how the proposed legislation would affect her Manhattan constituents.
The website noted:
In researching four different gun show listing sites to include Gunshow Monster, American Gun Shows, Gunshows USA, and Gunshow Trader, of the more than 60 shows listed in New York state so far for 2015, few if any are in Manhattan. In fact, the closest shows listed to Rosenthal’s district are in Long Island, some 50 miles away, leading to the conclusion that by far the biggest impact for her bill would be in other parts of the Empire State.
What Rosenthal’s legislative proposal would do — even if only in the smallest of ways — is make it more difficult for firearms enthusiasts and sportsmen in New York’s many rural regions to pass along traditions of responsible gun ownership. More often than not, lifelong gun owners are responsible gun owners. And what better place to encounter some of these folks than at a local gun show?
Certainly, Rosenthal is capable of imagining a worse scenario for a young person’s earliest encounter with guns than the “situations and influences” at a civic center full of folks who understand the devastating consequences of improper firearm use.
F him!
Dammit. I quit going to gun shows because I pretty much consider my collection complete. But I’ll be damned if I don’t drag my daughter, her husband and the three girls (6, 8 and 10) to the next gun show just so they can see what it’s like to meet Americans that want to protect their rights. I have that on my bucket list now.
yes I meant him!
Imagine the outrage if someone tried to ban kids from sex shows
It's one thing to let the insane run around free on the streets, but it's a completely different thing to elect them into office in the gov't!
This woman is a psycho-b!tch.
Where do these people get such a smug sense of moral superiority as to tell the rest of us how to live.
She should be spayed.
The question that needs to be asked: How many kids *now* are gun-crime perpetrators because they were taken to gun shows?
Meanwhile planned parenthood is encouraging minors to engage in BDSM, choking, and rape fantasy (with ‘safe words’ because NO doesn’t always mean ‘no’ to deviants).
Down is up, wrong is right.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
More destruction of the 1st amendment protection of the right to peacefully assemble.
You can’t even ban nudity and public sex from Gay Supremacist marches.
They ain’t going back in the freak closet any time soon.
How about banning kids from the homosexual parades which has perversion and mental sickness.
if you ever lived in places like that like I had to once then it would be easy to understand their ego’s
they are pushing normal people into closets now
I have a better idea. Ban lawmakers from gun shows because they tend to pee down their own legs in fear whenever they see a firearm, and it creates an unsanitary mess for the custodians.
Perhaps it is time to ban women from running for office...they are more of a threat to our country than a gun show admitting children under 12...
Screw you politicians! If these people want to do something righteous, ten try telling me not to go to a car dealership with my child, because statistically speaking, cars are deadly
And I want liberals banned from the country.
Wonder which “want” would be better for the U.S.?
She is indeed a psycho-bitch. In addition to this she also wants to ban...
Declawing Cats
Touching Tigers
Wants to raise the smoking age to 21
Ban e-cigarettes
more....
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