Mayor's Gun Talk Begets a Warning from Rifle Group (NRA)

NY Sun ^ | January 3, 2006 | JULIA LEVY

[BadAndy]

The little twit is just following the lead of our glorious Gov. Pataki.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

NYC Sullivan act was passed as a blatant racist law to prevent Blacks, other people of color and Eastern Europeans from obtaining firearms.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

If it is only the "illegal" guns that are causing the trouble and that Bloomin idiot wants to address, then obviously making guns illegal (applying regulations) doesn't work.

If the answer to the drug problem and "illegal" immigration is not to step up enforcement but to legalize or grant amnesty, then we ought to just legalize all guns.

Problem solved.

[Alberta's Child]

Ping.

[Crooked Constituent]

I stumbled across Mayor Bloombergs speech on TV the other day and heard him make his statements on guns. He sounded like a wussy milque-toast liberal.

[DLfromthedesert]

What part of Brooklyn are you from? I grew up in Bensonhurst, and Midwood, and attended St. Athanasius, but moved to Long Island, so I didn't go to high school there.

Anyhow, Bloomberg is a putz.

[Travis McGee]

That's because he IS a "wussy milque-toast liberal."

[nothingnew]

IS there no end to the hypocrisy?

No.

There is "nothingnew under the sun"...hence my screen name. Nothing surprises me. There is "nothingnew"

FMCDH(BITS)

[DLfromthedesert]

Whatever happened to that young man who was prosecuted for shooting a criminal in his house, thus protecting his family from harm?

[nothingnew]

(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)

You may want to look at that again. Just a suggestion...

FMCDH(BITS)

[JoeSixPack1]

Immediately following JFK's assination, all NYC high school shooting teams were disbanded. Gun amnisty programs popped up in the city around 1964, seasonal game hunters were stashing their rifles in friends homes in NJ & LI for the last century.

What makes Mr. Bloomingidiot think after years of draconian gun grabbing ignorance that he can make a failed, unconstitutional policy work?

Oh, wait, silly me, I forgot he's a billionaire RINO. Never mind.

[neverdem]

What part of Brooklyn are you from?

I'm not. I'm from the Inwood that's north of Washington Heights in Manhattan.

[Triple]

Last I checked bloomy was a republican in good standing.

[JoeSixPack1]

ROFL... right.

[durasell]

I'm not. I'm from the Inwood that's north of Washington Heights in Manhattan


That's where you look south toward the GW. Scary!

[neverdem]

That's where you look south toward the GW. Scary!

Geographically, it was a great location and neighborhood with its parklands and public transportation.. I'm north of there now, but Inwood is getting yuppyfied.

[Thunder90]

Remember, Most NYC "Republicans" are Democrats, and NYC Democrats are Greens

[elkfersupper]

On one hand, it is probably good that the NRA is responding.

On the other, responding just lends Mayor Bloomberg credibility where none is due.

[Victoria Delsoul]

On Sunday, as Mr. Bloomberg was sworn in for his second term, he invoked the names of police officers shot and killed in the line of duty as he announced a new, central focus of his administration - protecting New Yorkers from what he called "the scourge of illegal guns" by taking a message for tougher gun laws to "Albany, to Washington, and to every capital of every state that permits guns to flow freely across its border." He called it the city's "most urgent challenge."

Guess what, Mayor? Guns don't pull the trigger - people do. And until you face reality, people like you will always have a problem dealing with it. Tougher gun laws don't stop criminals from committing crimes, but it surely puts a lot of restriction on law-abiding citizens who are not about to kill anyone.

Your “tougher” gun laws won't deter criminals but tougher criminal sentences such as death sentences or LIFE in prison, do.

[Alberta's Child]

Great post!