City fights huge flow of arms

NY Daily News (New York) ^ | 12/01/05 | MICHAEL SAUL

[Tarpon]

Put a condom over NY -- solves more than the gun problem.

[michaelbfree]

"It reminds you of when President [Gerald] Ford told the city to drop dead in the city's budget crisis."

Hey, New York, drop dead on your city's gun crisis - idiots, if you would let law abiding citizens own guns your problem would soon disappear....oh, and your hand wringing phony republican mayor should stuff it....

[BigTom85]

The problem in NYC is the whole hip hop wanna be gangster thug mentality. They see 50 cent and whoever else these people idolize walking around and preaching that violence is ok and they automatically want to emulate their idols. It is virtually impossible to get a gun permit in NYC. Gun control does not work- skells will get the guns either way. Its about time to start PROSECTUING these idiots. Most of these perps get arrested a dozen times and they are still walking the streets. Guns arent the problem, NYC is the problem!

[ncountylee]

Schumer should give up his CC. The hypocritical puke.

[kerryusama04]

First they take over the schools, then they take your guns, then they own your soul. I always though New Yorkers were a pretty tough lot, why are they letting their pols turn them into helpless waifs?

And there can only be one motivation for leaders who want their police to be better armed than the populace.

[JudgemAll]

Bloomberg called on federal lawmakers to "stop this craziness" because guns are flooding city streets faster than cops can seize them.

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Here we go again, blaming neighbors while they knowingly support criminals in their area and not law abiding citizens.

It simply is a confederate racist policy to have out of state people pay for their own messes. Local criminals are decriminalized, out of state people who get their guns stolen by NY criminals get to be liable.

I hate liberals.

[JudgemAll]

Social policy mechanics is evil-blind. They don't go after criminals in NY stealing guns out of state, just after a "bad policy"

[arkady_renko]

...said many of the illegal guns are coming from Georgia, Florida, Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio.

I admit that I am an idiot, but if the guns are illegal now, how do they think that making them 'really, really illegal' is going to solve their problem?

A_R

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Gun control laws only disarm the law-abiding.

How complicated is that?

[justshutupandtakeit]

My tears are blinding me. So sad.

[Ophiucus]

When have criminals follwed the law?

[manglor]

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Article. I. Section 8 Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

Trying to regulate sales of a product in other states like Virginia, Florida, Georgia? That's a power reserved for the federal government. Go pound sand New Dork City.

[pabianice]

Yes! Stop the craziness! Let people conceal carry, you morons! Then they could defend themselves!

[kerryusama04]

Indeed. Nowhere in the article was it mentioned to track down and prosecute the gun traffickers. You would think that if they know the margin on an illegal gun sale, they would also have information on who the dealers are. Straw purchases and illegal sales of guns are HUGE felonies. But they don't want to stop the crime, oh no. They want huge out of control crime to make their constituents scared into giving up more of their liberty. Well, I'll have none of it. I upgraded to life member of the NRA this year and I hope many others do, too.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

If you can "jump on a bus" and make $8,000 on illegal guns, why not stop and search the buses ?

[School of Rational Thought]

Leftists believe US is the reason there are terrorists in Iraq, but refuse to understand that the defenseless sheep of New York will attract wolves.

[Doomonyou]

The strategy floods high-crime areas with cops, many of them rookies.

Cannon fodder.

[kiki04]

[Grut]

...why are they letting their pols turn them into helpless waifs?

If you're helpless, you can't be blamed for doing nothing.