You were asked if you thought Constitutional rights end at some city limits. Your smart ass answer indicates that you don't give a damn about the matter.
"all these threads regarding Rudy and guns, you have to look at them in the context of what he was trying to do as mayor of NYC."
He took away the right of the citizens to effective self defense. That's something even Dinkins didn't do. He took guns away from some FReepers, and other NYers. They were not criminals. They were law abiding folks.
well, unless you believe the NRA is "anti-gun" - there is a reason why they don't want to take the issue of blanket 2A gun rights, as applied to the states, into federal court. why is that?
sure, its a great idea to give "law abiding" folks the right to carry a gun. how do you decide who the "law abiding" folks are? you can't. in an urban environment, if I could get a CCW permit in NYC, so could some 18 year old inner city youth gangbanger or MS13 member with no criminal record or reason to otherwise be excluded. now sure, that same person intent on misdeeds could get that gun illegally (and they do). But the difference is, if I give it to him legally - I remove the ability of law enforcement to proactively fight gun crime. A cop can't do anything to him for weapons possession, they have to wait until AFTER he commits a crime with that gun. that's not what people, in an urban environment, expect as a result of policing efforts. they want crime thwarted BEFORE it happens, otherwise we turn the police into "cleanup crews" who simply come in and investigate gun crimes after they occur, unless they happen to be exactly in the right place at the right time to stop the crime.