Posted on 03/29/2007 7:21:40 AM PDT by pissant
Sean Hannity Interview, 2007:
HANNITY: Let me move on. And the issue of guns has come up a lot. When people talk about Mayor Giuliani, New York City had some of the toughest gun laws in the entire country. Do you support the right of people to carry handguns?
GIULIANI: I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms. When I was mayor of New York, I took over at a very, very difficult time. We were averaging about 2,000 murders a year, 10,000...
HANNITY: You inherited those laws, the gun laws in New York?
GIULIANI: Yes, and I used them. I used them to help bring down homicide. We reduced homicide, I think, by 65-70 percent. And some of it was by taking guns out of the streets of New York City.
So if you're talking about a city like New York, a densely populated area like New York, I think it's appropriate. You might have different laws other places, and maybe a lot of this gets resolved based on different states, different communities making decisions. After all, we do have a federal system of government in which you have the ability to accomplish that.
From a 2000 interview with Tim Russert:
Tim Russert: How about registration of ALL handguns?
Rudy Giuliani: Uh, you know I'm in favor of that. I've been on your show many times, talking about, uh, the program that the president (Clinton) talked about in his state of the union speech - I have been giving speeches about and talked about on your show for the last 10 to 15 years. Which is, I believe, is that we should treat the possession of a handgun the way we treat driving an automobile.
And therefore a person who wants to possess a handgun should pass a written test, should be able to pass a physical test in the actual use of the gun, and should have to demonstrate good moral character and a REASON to have the gun.
That those should be, essentially there should be a UNIFORM LAW PASSED BY CONGRESS that says that every state has to administer that, the way we say that we're not going to let you drive an automobile if you're too young, we're not going let you drive an automobile if you had a bad record, and uh, every state has a slightly different variation of that, but every state has a uniform law that guarantees our safety. I think the two things are good analogies, and I've been arguing for that since at least 1980.
Hate to tell ya, the rest of the article makes it worse.
How much would you bet?
I see none. But lets see how he answers.
That's your opinion; I don't think he made it worse at all and I think that's why you left it off your vanity.
Ping the people you're trashing, Newbie.
Rudy Rodham Bloomberg...
That would be funny if it weren't so true.
Having... Rudy... as a nominee is not something any right thinking republican can contemplate.
I agree
:-)
Maybe since spam is now allowed all the rules are just out the window.
Very well.
For example:
"It’s not only — I mean, it’s part of the Constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then the restrictions of it have to be reasonable and sensible. You can’t just remove that right. You’ve got to regulate, consistent with the Second Amendment."
What the hell does that mean? What regulations are consistent with "the right shall not be infringed".
Well, he voted against it.
"Ping the people you're trashing, Newbie."
I didn't trash anyone.
Furthermore, it's clear that length of membership on FR and common sense are conservatism show little to no correlation.
You say newbie as if it were an insult. You were a newbie at one time too.
Go back to her original statement, not the backtracked one. All candidates support gun control? You're either supporting the ignorant, or the liar. Which is it?
Too bad you can't ask Reagan. He seemingly disagreed with you since he endorsed and stumped for the Brady Bill after he left office. Surely a waiting period for a woman afraid of an abusive husband or a stalking boyfriend is having her rights infringed due to the Brady Bill.
There's a lot of that going around.
Maybe JimRob should mention that it's common courtesy somewhere in the introduction.
A lot of the newbies don't know about it.
"It’s not only — I mean, it’s part of the Constitution. People have the right to bear arms. Then the restrictions of it have to be reasonable and sensible. You can’t just remove that right. You’ve got to regulate, consistent with the Second Amendment."
What the hell does that mean? What regulations are consistent with "the right shall not be infringed".
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Damn good question. Peach, enlighten us.
Your comaprison of the Brady Bill and Rudy's statements shows a very, very profound ignorance of the subject.
Similar to saying that yelling FIRE in a crowded theatre is the same as criticizing our government.
Sure. That's why you didn't post the entire interview. Carry on.
But I did sleep at a Holiday Inn Express.
"Too bad you can't ask Reagan. He seemingly disagreed with you since he endorsed and stumped for the Brady Bill after he left office. Surely a waiting period for a woman afraid of an abusive husband or a stalking boyfriend is having her rights infringed due to the Brady Bill."
What other liberties do you support waiting periods for? How about a waiting period for free speech?
SHall. Not. Be. Infringed.
Back to your point... '
How about a waiting period for a woman who has been stalked and feels like she's in danger?
Or for a family where there have been a number of home invasions or breakins in the neighborhood?
You have no problem with that?
As a law abiding citizen, why does the government even have the right to know what and how many arms I might or might not have?
She no doubts hangs around liberals and people who are of a like mind. But I repeat myself.
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