If you want to gainsay the NY Times, don't make the Washington Post's story about John Patrick Bedell your first link.
Hey NooYawk, just build a wall around your rotting mess and go to Hell! Don’t blame your barbarian problems on decent Americans!
How does the Times feel about being owned by a billionaire from Mexico? I hear Mexico has stringent gun laws - but interestingly, no one follows those laws. From what I’ve heard, pretty much all of the laws in Mexico are not followed.
We in the Commonwealth of Virginia do not have “lax gun laws.” The State of New York is “lax” on protecting its citizens’ Constitutional right to keep an bear arms.
Hence it is much safer to live in Virginia than in New York, where armed criminals are quite safe in assuming that their law-abiding victims will be unarmed.
“We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the
first step is necessarily - given the political realities
— going to be very modest .
So then we’ll have to start working again to strengthen
the law, and then again to strengthen the next law, and
maybe again and again.
Right now, though, we’d be satisfied not with half a loaf
but with a slice.
Our ultimate goal — total control of handguns in the
United States — is going to take time .
The first problem is to slow down the increasing number
of guns being produced and sold in this country.
The second problem is to get handguns registered.
And the final problem is to make the possession of *all*
handguns and *all* handgun ammunition — except for the
military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed
sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors — totally
illegal.”
— Pete Shields, Chairman Emeritus, Handgun Control, Inc.
( “The New Yorker”, July 26, 1976 )