Most big city mayors are democrats, aka gun-grabbers, so this is no big surprise...
Who are these Mayors that are behind this? How can we find out? I want to know if my Mayor is one of them. I want to know so that I can work to make sure that he does not stay my Mayor.
Swell.......
The document contains the email address and phone numbers of contact people for the press release. I have sent them an email requesting a list of the Mayors that have endorsed this press release. I predict my request will be ignored. If enough others ask for the list maybe something will give.
Gun bans?
The public has even less power to defend itself.
I think the desired effect is the public has less power.
The NRA is still offering free membership for one year, and it's hard to beat free: http://www.nrahq.org.
I didn’t find a list of individual members, but I did find a few things. This seems to me to be a LIBERAL “Council of Mayors”, or some kind of a PAC-like/lobbying organization. The “U.S. Council”, IMHO is more of a “make it sound legit” attempt to give a limited group of people more standing.
This is from the “PRNewswire”, so it’s not like the paper solicited their opinion. It was sent to them, and prepared BY this organization itself.
Here is their Website:
www.usmayors.org
Here are businesses listed as their “Business PLATINUM MEMBERS & Initiative Partners”. We should really hit ALL these businesses hard for being associated with this — even if they “don’t mean to be”...
http://www.usmayors.org/business/
Business Council
Platinum Members & Initiatives
Aclara
Partner America
CUSP/DuPont
EMA, Inc.
Linebarger Goggin Blair & Sampson LLP
Nationwide Retirement Solutions
Pareto Energy, Ltd.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Waste Management, Inc.
Other Business Initiatives
CGI
Cherokee Invest. Partners
DollarWi$e
U.S. Communities
USCM Deferred Compensation Program
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Ping.
I've been convinced for quite a while...
Once the Stimulus Package kicks in and lots of high-paying jobs get created, despair and crime will go down.
It cost 1 trillion dollars - we are bound to see the stimulus begin to work soon.
— Japan is a very homogeneous society. They have a very low crime rate.
— The United Kingdom used to be a homogeneous society and used to have a very low crime rate. As immigration has increased this has changed and the UK now has a very heterogeneous population and a high crime rate.
— Nation states in Africa that consist a heterogeneous mix of various tribal groups thrown together in a single nation only by lines on a map have high crime rates.
— Latin American societies with a high degree of class polarization lack cohesion and have high crime rates.
— The US has always been a heterogeneous society and has always had a fairly high crime rate - except during the period between the early 1940s and early 1960s, following the immigration restrictions imposed in about 1920 and which allowed the US to assimilate much of our ethnic population and become more homogeneous. Following the loosening of immigration restrictions the crime rate climbed. In recent years a disproportionate amount of the crime in the US has been perpetrated by recent immigrants, especially illegal immigrants who are by definition alienated from and have no vested interest in our society.
Heterogeneous societies tend to be highly polarized. Homogeneous societies, less polarized. Polls show that the Obama administration is the most polarizing government the US has had since such poles have been taken. I see a direct correlation between Obama’s polarization of our society and the sudden rise in “mad warrior” type shootings.
What government must do to prevent these incidents is eliminate the polarization and make the US a more homogeneous society:
— End the class warfare rhetoric.
— End race entitlement.
— Promote racial and cultural assimilation.
— Stop threatening the religious traditions of the society.
— And above all, place greater restrictions on immigration.
No, I don’t think Mr. Obama sees it as being in his best interest to do any of this.
It’s not a shooting epidemic, it’s a headline epidemic.
Lets pass a law that requires that news stories of deaths be reported in proportion to the date of deaths in the community by that particular means. Before you can put a shooting death on the front page, you have to put 10 motor vehicle deaths.
Exceptions for prominence of victims and perpetrators, of course.
I know I am preaching to the choir here, but none of these things would have stopped one single shooting. when someone is willing to kill themselves, more laws are not going to stop him.
When there’s a mass shooting, the first thing you do is call the police - the people with guns.
So it’s obvious to even the most demented anti-gunner on the phone with 911 in the middle of a mass shooting that MORE GUNS are a potential solution to the problem. It’s just that they can’t make the connection in their minds between a gun in their purse or pocket and a mass shooting.