[Bear_Slayer]

We will not rest until we secure all the tools we need to protect New Yorkers from the scourge of illegal guns."

Illegal guns? Sure. Just don't touch the legal ones.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

The only "tool" in that idiotic speech was the person delivering it.

[Cicero]

There was an article here just yesterday saying that violent crime is continuing to drop in NYC, so evidently Bloomberg has not reversed the good work Rudy did on that.

This is a lot of blather. Increasing penalties on shooting cops and trafficking in illegal firearms is not the same thing as taking away lawful weapons, so in practice that's OK too.

The problem is the language and the attitude. Plus the fact that ever since Murdoch's oldest son quit the NY Post, it has been moving to the left. The Post is getting worse than the Daily News, which doesn't leave a single conservative voice in New York City, other than the small-circulation Sun.

[El Gato]

Routing the city's "scourge of illegal guns" will be the top priority in the next four years, Mayor Bloomberg pledged yesterday as he was sworn in for a second term.

If y'all had way more gu"ns in the hands of the law abiding, you'd find the legal guns" would drive out most of the "illegal guns", and reduce the scourge considerably.

But I'd like to know how in a country whose Constitution states:

"A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." and in a state whose civil rights law states:

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms cannot be infringed."

there can be any such thing as "illegal guns"?