[TomGuy]

new measures to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and mentally ill people

What's that? More signs like:

"Criminals are not allowed to carry guns."

"If you are crazy, you are not allowed to have a gun."

Of course, there are some alternatives to "gun free zones", too:

"Criminal Free Zone"

"Mentally Ill Free Zone, especially if you have a gun"

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Maybe the existing "Gun Free Zone" signs are just too small. Maybe they just need bigger signs.

[tumblindice]

If New York bans “assault rifles” well then, New Yorkers possessing said items are criminals or crazy for not meekly turning them in. So it’s sort of a combo Yossarian-Solzhenitsyn-1984 dilemma.
The problem most of us have with the last sane Americans in New York and California turning the lights off and leaving is: NIMBY, keep on movin’ please. Blue state ‘Okies’. Man, there goes the neighborhood.