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To: GoldenPup

With any luck.
But recall that it was New York that brought us Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall politics.


8 posted on 01/17/2013 8:08:32 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Darksheare

Ah, yes...who can forget Carmine DiSapio?


43 posted on 01/17/2013 10:09:10 AM PST by GoldenPup
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"...it was New York that brought us Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall politics."

And it was Tammany Hall, that brought New York gun-control under the Sullivan Act:

The father of New York gun control was Democratic city pol “Big Tim “Sullivan — a state senator and Tammany Hall crook, a criminal overseer of the gangs of New York...

Sullivan knew the gangs would flout the law, but appearances were more important than results...

Ordinary citizens, on the other hand, were disarmed, which solved another problem: Gangsters had been bitterly complaining to Tammany that their victims sometimes shot back at them.

"The strange birth of NY’s gun laws"
by Michael A. Walsh
New York Post

And a century later, Democrats are still protecting criminals from law abiding citizens who would defend themselves!
64 posted on 01/17/2013 12:46:46 PM PST by drpix
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