New Yorker, born and bred.
I understand his hostility to criminals, it's his hostility towards law-abiding citizens that baffles me.
I don’t think he’s hostile to law-abiding citizens. His intent has always been to protect. His notions of how best to do that were shaped by having spent his entire life in NYC and having had to work within the legal system there. I think his views actually are changing, and we should loudly support him for that (regardless of whether we support him as the Republican nominee for President), because he’s highly respected by many New Yorkers who need to have their views on this topic re-oriented, and he is going around publicly spelling out a simple route to changing one’s position on this topic. He’s currently doing a heck of a lot more good than the NRA, when it comes to changing the popular conception of the Second Amendment among New York City residents and other people around the country who hold similarly befuddled notions about the Second Amendment. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Giuliani-AP-Interview.html