Gun-crazy Washington

Newsday (Editorial) ^ | 12/2/05 | n/a

[Regulator]

More Leftist tripe from Newsday

[wvobiwan]

Sounds like the good guys are winning, excellent.

[Vaquero]

Newsday just announced massive layoffs.....hopefully they will fester and die along with the rest of the MSM.

I work just a few blocks away from their facility and it does my heart good to know they are reeling from citizen backlash against the MSM.

[Lazamataz]

Every time a liberal news editor pushes gun control, a liberal politician loses office.

And every time a liberal politician loses office, an angel gets it's wings.

[Dittohead68]

Gee, anything more we can do to make the lefties wring their hands?

I'd be happy to oblige the continuing gun freedom legislation so that they can add more to their list of complaints.

[G Larry]

Hey MAYOR!

Make guns LEGAL in New York and the illegal market drys up!

Additionally, when the potential for citizens to be armed increases, they are less likely to become VICTIMS!

[CindyDawg]

plagued by guns that flood in from states where laws are more porous.

Just border states doing the work that NY won't.

[Bob Mc]

'Congress has been sprinting away from rational gun control in recent years."

And for good reason no less! It's not generally supported by the majority of American voters.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

These people are prehistoric mammals thrashing about in the tar pits. They know that gun control is a losing issue and that gun ownership is at an all-time high.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Hey, Bloomberg, you have more human trash per square yard in NYC than you can handle, don't expect the free parts of the country to suffer because of your great liberal experiments.

[glock rocks]

Gun Control isn't about GUNS

It's about CONTROL

[IronJack]

his entreaty will fall on deaf ears in Washington.

I doubt it, but one can always hope ...

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

Your solution is too simple, too logical, and might actually work. We can't have any of that now can we? I am sooooooo glad to be in Texas....:-)

[Travis McGee]

Only the military and the police should have guns.

Then we will all be safe.

[westmichman]

They will try to use the U.N. to force (gun) control on us.

[NapkinUser]

Well Mr. Bloomburg, if your city was more pro-gun rights, the illegal market wouldn't exist. Isn't that the same argument people on the left use for making marijuana legal?

New York is completly anti-gun (they do allow some guns, hell they probably have too) but it's enough to give criminals a great market.

[epow]

Is it just me or does anyone else seem to see a major increase in anti-gun articles in the media recently? I think the antis must be beginning a push to elect more anti-gunners to Congress next year. They can almost always find an example somewhere in the US of a crime in which a firearm was used to kill or injure some innocent person. What they don't tell you is that you also can find an example like that almost any day of the week in nations like the UK which have enacted some of the most restrictive gun laws in the world.

The answer is not to take guns away from law abiding people, that has been well proved to be counter productive. The most effective answer is to take people off the street permanently who use guns in crimes. Commit a crime with a gun, go to prison for a long time with no possibility of parole. I believe that building more prisons and hiring more guards would be less expensive than trying to enforce unconstitutional and unenforcible gun laws which are useless for keeping guns away from criminals anyway. Why is it so hard to understand that criminals are by definition people who don't obey laws, and gun laws are no exception?

[paul51]

Tragically Fortunately, his entreaty will fall on deaf ears in Washington.

[Candor7]

The only civillian folks in Washington who will have
guns will be the criminals?

Notice that very few uniformed military get mugged in Washington. Many of them carry.