Posted on 01/08/2013 3:21:27 PM PST by library user
YONKERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — A deal to give New York one of the toughest gun control laws in the nation is being negotiated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who, sources said Tuesday, is hoping to announce the plan Wednesday during his State of the State speech in Albany.
Cuomo hopes to jump-start the 2013 legislative session with a big deal that could dramatically alter gun control laws across the state.
Highly placed sources told CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer that Cuomo is negotiating with Assembly and Senate leaders for a package of gun control laws that would be a dramatic response to the gun violence besetting the nation, including the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
“It’s a very divisive topic,” Cuomo said on Wednesday. “There’s a lot of energy on both sides. Some people are vehemently against’ some people think we’re out of our minds for not passing it.”
Sources told Kramer the governor and lawmakers are negotiating furiously in the hope that Cuomo can announce a deal during his speech Thursday.
Sources said the package is expected to include:
* New restrictions on assault weapons
* Stiffer penalties for using a gun to commit a crime
* New limits on the number of bullets in a gun magazine
“Gun control is highly political, politically contentious situation. It is polarizing,” Cuomo said.
In Westchester County, where Mamaroneck’s Hommocks Middle School was under lockdown last week amid reports a gunman tried to enter the school, the need for gun control is on the minds of many.
“There’s just too many incidents that are happening that you think could be avoided if there were stronger regulations about it,” one mother from Larchmont said, adding when asked if her children’s safety is her motivation, “Absolutely, I mean you can’t even send them to school now. Now my kids have police in front of their school. I mean you wonder how far it’s going to go.”
“I think it’s necessary with everything that’s happening,” Mamaroneck resident Gail Nubile added. “With the recent things that have been going on it does make you think that things to be happening, so you have to be extra cautious.”
Cuomo’s move comes as Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Gun Violence released a new commercial to push for federal action. It features the mother of Christina Taylor-Green, who was killed two years ago Tuesday in the Tucson, Ariz., massacre.
“How many more children must die before Washington does something to end our gun violence problem?” the ad says.
It would be quite a coup for Cuomo, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, to show progress on gun control while Washington dithers.
The criminals and nut jobs are rubbing their hands in glee.
The commies will be “swept” into court.
Sorry for you New Yorkers, but I almost hope they pull this off, first so they can draw criminals from other states, and second to show how much of a failure gun control is.
[...her age and health will not allow it.”
Not to mention her looks! You seen her mug lately? Yikes!
The smart people are moving out!
All of this 2nd Amend logic that is brought up on this forum every single day is quietly ignored by the GOP leadership. The only reason that I can think of for that is they want the Dems to succeed. They are, after all, a part of the ruling elite. They can't be safe enslaving us with guns in the hands of The People.
At every turn the GOPe refuses to bring the most basic and simplest of facts to the public. In politics, nothing happens by chance. They are all on the same team.
Cuomo may announce what he wishes. Enforcing his announcements will be another matter altogether.
The elite dysfunctional politicos of our nation are now attempting to disempower the people, while they themselves have armed security, often 24/7.
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NY Governor Wants Your Guns While He’s Protected 24/7 by Armed Security .( starts at 2:40 into video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWanGPbPoIs&feature=player_embedded
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Liberals tell us that legislation for rounding up illegal aliens is futile.
-—meanwhile-—
Liberals propose legislation for rounding up firearms from honest citizens.
This is about guns in the HOME, not guns in the street.
The former tend to belong to the law-abiding, the latter are wielded by gangstas in da hood, who tend to shoot back at attempts to disarm them.
Cuomo like any liberal chooses the easier target.
If you are in England, where guns are much more scarce, apparantly 10 times more than in America.
Edited on US Violent Crime Rate: 475 per 100,000 citizens
(Year: 2003 http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_01.html )
UK Violent Crime Rate: 4,100 per 100,000 citizens
(Year: 2003 http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs04/rdsolr1804.pdf )
What is it with quoting Firearm Homicide as being so much worse than being carved with a butcher knife or bludgeoned to death with a lead pipe?
It would be quite a coup for Cuomo, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, to show progress on gun control while Washington dithers.
These Pravda Propagandists don't even TRY to appear impartial. 8
Eventually, there will be a one-round limit.
Mr. Cuomo, still attempting to fill his daddy’s shoes, thinks that he can be a better king than Obama.
He’s a nut job! A dangerous, totalitarian, Communist nut job.
“Build a fence along the Hudson, instead — a high fence.”
As in “Escape from New York”?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082340/
Da, Comrade Cuomo, it is polarizing. What else would you expect when you are dismantling the God given rights of the American people, expressly enumerated in their Constitution... serenity and meek assent?
You will be extremely fortunate if "polarizing" is all it remains, you nasty little tyrant! It is not like you are passing a law to change the speed limit on the Thruway or renaming a new state building in Albany.
Well we’re dealing with low information voters and as we have seen you can show the truth to these people but it doesn’t mean a damn thing. All they’re going to take note of is that Gov. Cuomo is doing something about these “evil” guns and who cares about trampling over the second amendment. Whether Hillary runs or not this doofus of a governor will be a major presidential player in 2016.
“* New limits on the number of bullets in a gun magazine”
It is ten now. What will they go down to 2?
There are enough people in this world that understand that the purpose of the 2nd amendment, if it’s an end game, is to hold the politicians to account.
They are terrified of that, and with the media’s help, intend to disarm us.
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