“And even as we grieve for those who lost their lives, and our hearts and prayers go out to the victims and their loved ones, we may be able to find some sort of meaning in this tragedy by using it as a catalyst to revive national gun control efforts.”So baubau , was the above quote you posted and then deleted accurate?
Rudolph Giuliani
Tuesday, June 20, 2000 MAYOR GIULIANI AND SPEAKER VALLONE ANNOUNCE CITY LAWSUIT AGAINST GUN INDUSTRY
Narses keeps posting his little spam about the gun lawsuit Rudy was involved with.
Areafiftyone presented the facts of that lawsuit:
* Deliberately manufacturing many more firearms than can be bought for legitimate purposes such as hunting and law enforcement, and knowingly targeting these excess guns to criminals, youths and other persons unqualified to buy firearms;
* Deliberately undermining New York City's gun control laws by flooding markets with looser gun laws with firearms that the manufacturers know are destined to be illegally resold in New York City;
* Ignoring the illegal practices of gun distributors, many of whom openly engage in the above practices;
* Refusing to manufacture safer guns, with such features as trigger locks and "personalization" measures that allow only authorized persons to fire the weapon.
The quote was accurate and not taken out of context. It is not from some questionable source. It is from his mayoral website. It makes tonights statements sound very hollow indeed. The rest of the article is fairly appalling too:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/rwg/html/97a/ccc.html
Do you agree that these are his unambiguous words?