Posted on 02/07/2007 2:40:44 PM PST by Jim Robinson
HANNITY: Let me move on. And the issue of guns has come up a lot. When people talk about Mayor Giuliani, New York City had some of the toughest gun laws in the entire country. Do you support the right of people to carry handguns?
GIULIANI: I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms. When I was mayor of New York, I took over at a very, very difficult time. We were averaging about 2,000 murders a year, 10,000...
HANNITY: You inherited those laws, the gun laws in New York?
GIULIANI: Yes, and I used them. I used them to help bring down homicide. We reduced homicide, I think, by 65-70 percent. And some of it was by taking guns out of the streets of New York City.
So if you're talking about a city like New York, a densely populated area like New York, I think it's appropriate. You might have different laws other places, and maybe a lot of this gets resolved based on different states, different communities making decisions. After all, we do have a federal system of government in which you have the ability to accomplish that.
HANNITY: So you would support the state's rights to choose on specific gun laws?
GIULIANI: Yes, I mean, a place like New York that is densely populated, or maybe a place that is experiencing a serious crime problem, like a few cities are now, kind of coming back, thank goodness not New York, but some other cities, maybe you have one solution there and in another place, more rural, more suburban, other issues, you have a different set of rules.
HANNITY: But generally speaking, do you think it's acceptable if citizens have the right to carry a handgun?
GIULIANI: It's not only -- I mean, it's part of the Constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then the restrictions of it have to be reasonable and sensible. You can't just remove that right. You've got to regulate, consistent with the Second Amendment.
HANNITY: How do you feel about the Brady bill and assault ban?
GIULIANI: I was in favor of that as part of the crime bill. I was in favor of it because I thought that it was necessary both to get the crime bill passed and also necessary with the 2,000 murders or so that we were looking at, 1,800, 1,900, to 2,000 murders, that I could use that in a tactical way to reduce crime. And I did.
It doesn't matter. Congress passed the law and Clinton signed it.
Which is why it is VITAL that we have a president who reaches for the veto stamp instead of his pen when a gun-control bill crosses his desk.
What if Giuliani is the only person who can stop Hitliary?
Ed
Threads like this seem to always motivate me to make a new gun purchase. I've been looking to add a 9mm Beretta PX4 Storm semiauto to my handgun collection. I think I'll take care of that tomorrow.
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Wrong. FMCDH, Giuliani.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: Wednesday, August 1, 2001
"The Police Department's dramatic success in reducing crime is due in large part to its corresponding success in removing guns from City streets," the Mayor said. "More than 90,000 guns have been seized since 1994, and shootings have plummeted more than 74 percent.
The NYPD's gun seizure success is also reflected in the murder rate, which has plummeted 65 percent since 1994, and is down another 11 percent this year over last year. The NYPD has also ensured that thousands of guns can never be used to commit a crime by destroying them and putting the metal to good use. Now, another 3,000 guns have been taken out of circulation -- permanently."
What if the moon is made of Gouda cheese?
The Dems in 2004 voted for Kerry in the primaries because they thought he could win.
Yes sir!
Amendment XIV
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
I don't think he can recover from this. Was Hannity still making bedroom eyes at him after the interview.
No; Rudi is far too liberal for me. He'll not get my support.
the gubmint that thinks it gives you your rights can take them all away.
no thanks, Rudy. you ain't 'my mayor' and that ain't 'my city'.
Noooo... CFR tells us that we elected the wrong legislators. The President should've vetoed it. Shame on him for not vetoing it. And I'm sure that many of GWB's newly-appointed federal judges will somewhere down the line be part of the chain of justice that finally smashes the unconstitutional garbage. But in the meantime, while we're stuck with it, blow a raspberry to GWB but flip the bird to the asshole politicians who wrote it and voted for it.
Rudy is about as sharp as a bowling ball..
The problem is that people like Rudy have very different notions of what is "reasonable and sensible" than I do. And his notions are wildly different from what Chuckie Shumer thinks is "reasonable and sensible".
Speaking for myself, I would like to abolish all federal gun-control laws established in the 20th Century.
And as far as "keeping guns out of the hands of criminals", my attitude is: if he's too dangerous to be allowed to own a gun, then he's too dangerous to be loose on the street
Yeah,thats going to rally the conservative base for ol'e rudy. Go soak your head rino.Anybody who thinks this cat is in anyway conservative is shrink wrapped!
The we have already lost.
In your scenario, he'd be ignoring the "shall not be infringed" part. At this point, I'd really have to question his reading comprehension and his thinking. Maybe he's too emotion driven on this issue. Emotion-driven policies are bad. I don't want someone who can't be bothered to figure out what they actually meant by "regulated" or who is emotion-driven as president.
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