Ithaca Voice reporter: I shouldn’t have to wait 20 months for a gun

Ithaca Voice ^ | 08/25/15 | BY JOLENE ALMENDAREZ

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Excellent editorial, but I have the feeling this young lady is about to be excommunicated from Ithaca, the City of Evil.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

City of Evil bump:

[PGR88]

NY State is America’s equivalent of East Germany

[dontreadthis]

entry into this country and gun ownership are expedited when done illegally

[Sasparilla]

...NY State is America’s equivalent of East Germany...

And, with their high taxes on top of everything else, I am surprised they haven’t built a wall to keep people in.

[RetiredTexasVet]

“What I can say about myself is that I’ve been a vegetarian for over 11 years for moral reasons. I don’t kill spiders in my house, but opt to trap them and take them into my garden. I feel bad for swatting at mosquitos.”

You belong in NY and probably don’t need a gun ... you’d hold memorials for the paper targets that you killed!

[Chode]

and her county judge ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, WILL NOT issue her a carry permit. tompkins co doesn't believe in them

where here in Schuyler Co, CCW is the default

[Michael.SF.]

At the risk of alienating myself from a mostly liberal community

Too late:

a) You are from Texas.

b) You like guns

c) You are conservative

[MtnClimber]

I try not to have business travel from Colorado to NY, Ill, MD, NJ Ca. I would never live in those states.

[metmom]

That quick?

Considering that it’s Ithaca, I’m surprised she can get one at all.

[PGR88]

I am surprised they haven’t built a wall to keep people in.

wait for it

[Doc91678]

It’s not just Ithaca, or Tompkins County. This is the edict sent down from Albany and the dictator of New York State.

[Chode]

no... it's not. every county sets it's own schedule and conditions

[Doc91678]

Tioga isn’t that bad then.

[Chode]

Chemung went to CCW as the default last year too, the Peoples Democratic Republic of Ithaca keeps tompkins co under it's thumb

county judges legislating from the bench

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Curious that CCW permits are county controlled. If I live and obtain a permit in NYC can I carry in Ithaca? Merely an academic question. Since Jolene Almendarez is partial to 45's, might I be so bold to suggest something from the XD Series by Springfield Armory.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“I’m a Texas girl from a primarily conservative family who considers going to a gun range and grabbing lunch a wonderfully spent Saturday with my relatives.”

We Yankee Girls would consider that a fun day, too! :)

(So relieved to have lost all of my weaponry in that boating accident a few years back...)

[Doc91678]

What’s a body to do. Ithaca/Cornell is a bastion of Progressive Liberal thinking.

[Starstruck]

It reported that for every justifiable homicide (meaning a person stopped a felon from committing a crime during the commission of a felony) in this country in 2012, there were 34 criminal homicides, 78 gun suicides, and two accidental gun deaths.

If someone comes up to kill you, they have a decided advantage if you don't know what's coming. How many of those criminal homicides were against unarmed people? How many homicides were averted by 1. Pulling out a gun. 2. Shooting at a perp. 3. Wounding a perp.

It's nice to sit behind a desk and pump out statistics to justify your position in you Ivory Tower, but those 258 justifiable homicides, made some people very happy they had a gun.

[Chode]

yup... tooo bad freedom isn't one of their strong points

i know a St.Trooper there that's made more than a few enemies of criminals he's put in prison and even his wife can't get a CCW!!! go figure