In order to be against gun control in a well-defined city surrounded by water that is filled to the brim with criminals with guns...you have to want to carry a gun yourself. You have to want to be able to defend yourself personally.
If the white men just don't want to pack pistols with their business suits...but there are tons of vicious minority kids with pistols all around...passing a law that puts these kids in prison immediately just for owning a gun actually makes sense for that small environment only.
And believe me, white people or honest older black males, who were caught with a gun that they didn't want to use for crime but only wanted for protection...got off with small fines and no jail time.
The gun law was used as an excuse to jail the people Rudy wanted to jail. And Rudy used it to fill an entire jail with nothing but minority criminals (there was a race war going on at the time).
Imagine we make a law saying that no Muslim in the USA can own a gun.
I would be for that law.
In New York, it was the same thing almost. Since the race war is mostly over, they could repeal the gun law now...but it was a handy law to have when whites didn't want to carry guns and angry black criminals did want to carry them.
So what I am saying is that, what some macho FReepers are trying to project as pansy liberalism (Rudy's narrow geographically defined gun control law) really was a tool that Rudy used to put maybe 10,000 minority criminals in jail in a very short period of time...while letting anyone who wasn't a criminal just get off with a fine for having a gun.
Plus, I knew plenty of white Manhattanites who kept guns in their apartments that Rudy and the police were never going to search for.
There was a race war at the time. It was very real. It is still going on maybe in LA?
This is the most racist post I've seen you put up, and reminds me of why I hate the Euro-peon mentality.
In this country, we have the RIGHT not the priveledge of defending ourselves. Right to carry permits in most U.S. state are granted to ALL law abiding citizens.
If the white liberals who dominate the NY population were too "scared of guns" they don't deserve the freedoms that this country was founded with.
I've carried in Seattle, Miami, Philadelphia, Houston, and Dallas, all large cities that respect my 2nd amendment right, all of which had racially diverse populations. No problems in any of those cities.
BTW: The leftists of both parties who govern New York state have made it a felony to carry a firearm. You lose all gun owning priveledges if you are caught, your fantasy of white men being let off notwithstanding.
Again, your time among the Euro-peons has ruined your brain.
Conservative European = American Democrat.
Socialist European = Communist.
Sort of reminds me of New York state, which is dying as the red states are thriving BTW.