Posted on 10/29/2006 10:02:39 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(CNSNews.com) - More than one hundred of the nation's mayors are breathing new life into the gun control movement.
The "Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition," a bipartisan group of 109 mayors in 44 states, is meeting Thursday in Chicago to "share strategies in the fight against illegal guns."
According to the coalition's website, those strategies include "how to work with local law enforcement agencies and state representatives to maximize penalties for those who possess, use and traffic in illegal guns."
The discussion also will focus on information sharing and "best practices on enforcement and legislative issues."
Two more "working groups" will meet in November, first in Boston, then in Atlanta.
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg are leading the city-level effort to "take illegal guns off the street."
They accuse the federal government of gutting the "essential programs" needed to keep city residents safe; and they insist they "will not allow our streets to turn into war zones."
The three regional meetings, beginning with the one today in Chicago, are intended to lay the foundation for a national summit of anti-gun mayors in January. That's when the mayors plans to launch "the first-ever coordinated, national effort to convince Congress to take ideology out of law enforcement." (Endorse the gun control agenda, in other words.)
"More than 100 mayors across our country have stood up to say, enough is enough -- illegal guns don't belong on our streets," Mayor Bloomberg said on in a message on the website of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition.
"Illegal guns have nothing to do with the Second Amendment. This isn't about ideology -- it's about law enforcement. When Washington makes bad decisions to protect criminals rather than the public, our cities bear the tragic consequences. Together we're sending a message to our national leaders that we will not be silent on this issue," Bloomberg said.
The coalition says 109 mayors have signed its Statement of Principles, which was drawn up in April, when the coalition was launched.
The Statement of Principles calls for stricter enforcement of gun laws and increased penalties for criminals who possess, use, and traffic in illegal guns.
The mayors who sign the document agree to oppose restrictions on cities' efforts to access and share gun-trace data; and they agree to support the development of technologies that theoretically would help detect and trace illegal guns.
Pending federal legislation would permanently block the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from publicly releasing information that traces guns back to their original point of sale.
The Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition opposes the bill restricting access to gun-trace data (H.R. 5005) and considers its defeat a priority.
Second Amendment groups says anti-gun groups want to use the gun-trace data in civil lawsuits against the firearms industry.
Go after criminals
The National Rifle Association says the mayoral efforts are too much talk and too little action.
"Mike Bloomberg, if you really want to stop violent crime, you don't need to spend taxpayer's money to throw parties for mayors and hold seminars and schedule photo ops...and act like violent crime is some new problem with some secret solution," said NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre at the NRA's annual meeting in May.
"It's real simple. If you want to get crime off your streets, get criminals off your streets," LaPierre said. "Here's what you do," he said in remarks addressed to Mayor Bloomberg:
"Walk down to Town Hall and tell your prosecuting attorneys that from now on, no plea bargains, no reduced charges, no dropped cases. A drug dealer caught with a gun goes to jail. A violent felon caught with a gun goes to jail. Discharge a gun in commission of a felony, go to jail. Smuggle a gun, go to jail. If you do that, if you stop talking and start acting, your violent crime rate will drop 30 to 40 to 50 percent in one year."
All laws that are in violation to the constitution are null and void.
As the constitution and bill of rights are the SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND 99% of all current gun control laws are null and void. Technically at least.
This war on guns was predicted when more and more gun laws were passed illegally.
Now that we face possible terrorist attacks on our soil we need whatever firearms we want to protect ourselves. This includes full auto. The phrase "shall not be infringed" means just that. All these gun control laws are "infringements".
What are "illegal guns"? Why are they picking and choosing which guns are okay and which ones aren't?
Simple.
Whatever scares politicians.
will be? I think we already are...and have been for a while now.
OMFG, they hit it right on the head, thank God they're going to do something.../sarcasm
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell
That explains why Mayor Villaraigosa is a member in good standing.
And illegal is whatever scares them.
Have you hugged your Kimber lately?
Like to know ifd there's a list of signers.
And banned books have nothing to do with the first amendment
The problem is that all guns scare them except those I mentioned above. I fear that what is left of our Second Amendment is in for a rough time in the near future. Would be tyranny never sleeps; life is a bitch.
Roger that.
Somehow totalitarians keep getting together and manage to lie their way to power.
Their insecurities propel them to control others.
Imagine the day when we have 5 Constitutionalists on SCOTUS and Chris Cox and company get to play the lawsuit game in reverse eliminating all these unconstitutional laws in these various cities.
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Hey, I guy can dream, can't he?
The pendulum WILL swing the other way sooner or later and all these unconstitutional laws will be gone.
Or any terrorist attack here and people will simply ignore them.
The big problem is that the left is trying to evaporate all sources of whatever firearms we will need.
But the resourcefulness of a free people will make up for lost ground when the pendulum swings back.
Thank God for the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Law.
These cretins just don't seem to get it.
Politicians prefer unarmed peasants.
Which is exactly why they prefer illegal immigrants, especially from Mexico and Central and South America. If they can get enough of those into the US, and get them the status of voters, then our Constitution will be dead, as they will have enough "natural peasants" to vote in whatever unConstitutional **** they want---ESPECIALLY "lawful citizen disarmament".
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