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Ex-NYC mayor: Ban all guns
http://www.wnd.com ^ | 1-13-13 | WND Exclusive/ Aaron Klein

Posted on 01/14/2013 10:44:20 AM PST by Mozilla

Aside from regulated hunting exceptions and those individuals who are deemed in danger by the police commissioner, all U.S. civilians should be banned from owning any kind of gun, argued former New York City Mayor Ed Koch in a radio interview today.

“I don’t believe that in our society that we should have guns,” said Koch, a Democrat, speaking on New York WABC Radio’s “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio.”

Continued Koch: “If I had my way I would pass such a law except to allow hunting and target practice and you lay out safety precautions for that.

“And if you need a gun because the police commissioner thinks your life is in danger, which is the way you can get a concealed gun (in New York) today, it’s called the Sullivan Law, you have to have the permission of the police commissioner.”

“So subject to those modifications,” he stated, “I don’t believe we should have millions of guns out there in the hands of people who are not part of law enforcement.”

Koch was asked about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announced effort to pursue “the toughest assault weapon ban in the nation.”

“We have to go much further,” the ex-mayor replied.

“I believe for example when Washington, D.C., passed a law that nobody could have a gun except law enforcement and it was struck down by the United States Supreme Court, that we should overrule the Supreme Court with a Constitutional amendment. I don’t believe that in our society that we should have guns.”

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KEYWORDS: banglist; democrats; guncontrol; guns; newyorkcity; progressives; secondamendment
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1 posted on 01/14/2013 10:44:24 AM PST by Mozilla
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I am all for it, Ed, if you and all your fellow politicians give up your armed guards.

Deal?

2 posted on 01/14/2013 10:46:38 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (TYRANNY: When the people fear the politicians. LIBERTY: When the politicians fear the people.)
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“those individuals who are deemed in danger by the police commissioner”

So who is that...lib politicians and celebrities?


3 posted on 01/14/2013 10:46:43 AM PST by rod1 (CTLY)
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To: Mozilla

I believe guns are banned in Mexico. That’s why they have no crime down there and no gun violence, no murders.


4 posted on 01/14/2013 10:47:13 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Mozilla
“So subject to those modifications,” he stated, “I don’t believe we should have millions of guns out there in the hands of people who are not part of law enforcement.”

I don't know about anybody else here but LE is the very last place I'd take refuge for protection of my life or my family's lives.

5 posted on 01/14/2013 10:47:54 AM PST by Gaffer
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“So subject to those modifications,” he stated, “I don’t believe we should have millions of guns out there in the hands of people who are not part of law enforcement.”

Oh but we are in law enforcement, Ed. We are here to enforce the Constitution, especially the 2nd Amendment.


6 posted on 01/14/2013 10:50:16 AM PST by Hang'emAll (Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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Let’s ban murder and robbery while we’re at it.


7 posted on 01/14/2013 10:51:00 AM PST by dfwgator
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8 posted on 01/14/2013 10:51:56 AM PST by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: Mozilla

So,,,,, Senile Dementia finally caught up with Ed.


9 posted on 01/14/2013 10:53:39 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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I know a Jewish liberal who asked me what FFL I used for my guns. I gave him the contact info and he bought several guns. He’d never had one. Then, he asked us gun guys to take him shooting; which we did. He also bought several thousand rounds. Recently, I was talking to a liberal in the gym and it only took a minute or two and he understood that more guns meant less crime, not more. You could see the gears mesh and his mind change. I think the liberals are going to have a hard time banning guns.


10 posted on 01/14/2013 10:53:55 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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An old gay geek that probably hasn’t been outside of Manhattan in forty years is in no position to understand America let alone speak for it. Hush up Ed.


11 posted on 01/14/2013 10:54:16 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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“I don’t believe that in our society that we should have guns,”

Then run, RUN to the airport and head to a country where it is LEGAL to prohibit citizens from having guns. Because it is not legal here, nor will it ever be.

12 posted on 01/14/2013 10:54:45 AM PST by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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Ban all guns?

Go right ahead, Kroch ... ban your bodyguards from having guns. Reject any and all police protection for yourself.

We'll all watch and see how it works out for you.

If we like it, we'll voluntarily join with you.

If not ...

GFY, Kroch.

13 posted on 01/14/2013 10:56:02 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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Gunowners: Ban all ex-NYC mayors, and throw in the current one for good luck.


14 posted on 01/14/2013 10:57:01 AM PST by Ironfocus
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...we should overrule the Supreme Court with a Constitutional amendment...

Good luck getting 2/3 of the states to sign on to that.

15 posted on 01/14/2013 10:57:09 AM PST by Not A Snowbird (2 Corinthians 4:8)
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The same Ed Koch who was photographed for a book cover holding a grenade in one hand and a seashell in the other?


16 posted on 01/14/2013 10:58:24 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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“all U.S. civilians should be banned from owning any kind of gun, argued former New York City Mayor Ed Koch in a radio interview today.”

I seem to remember a guy with a funny moustache say the same thing about people in Germany.. got a bit of a short memory there Ed??


17 posted on 01/14/2013 10:58:42 AM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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despicable what was said. But this former Mayor Koch is just the typical progressive-liberal neo-marxist. They want the second amendment basically overturned and re-written.


18 posted on 01/14/2013 11:00:35 AM PST by Mozilla
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The same guy. He is a hypocrite, but all democrats are.


19 posted on 01/14/2013 11:02:34 AM PST by Mozilla
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To: Gaffer
I don't know about anybody else here but LE is the very last place I'd take refuge for protection of my life or my family's lives.

Hopefully a lot of people who have this fetish for anything with a badge get a wakeup call soon. Once the gun confiscations start, they are going to find out in big hurry just how much contempt LE has for the public. Got to youtube and search for police drug raids. Then just substitute the word "gun" for "drug" because that is the treatment you're going to get when your neighbors turn you in for not registering or turning in your guns. The police will blindly follow the orders of whoever is it's leash.

20 posted on 01/14/2013 11:03:07 AM PST by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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