Posted on 01/14/2013 10:44:20 AM PST by Mozilla
Aside from regulated hunting exceptions and those individuals who are deemed in danger by the police commissioner, all U.S. civilians should be banned from owning any kind of gun, argued former New York City Mayor Ed Koch in a radio interview today.
“I don’t believe that in our society that we should have guns,” said Koch, a Democrat, speaking on New York WABC Radio’s “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio.”
Continued Koch: “If I had my way I would pass such a law except to allow hunting and target practice and you lay out safety precautions for that.
“And if you need a gun because the police commissioner thinks your life is in danger, which is the way you can get a concealed gun (in New York) today, it’s called the Sullivan Law, you have to have the permission of the police commissioner.”
“So subject to those modifications,” he stated, “I don’t believe we should have millions of guns out there in the hands of people who are not part of law enforcement.”
Koch was asked about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announced effort to pursue “the toughest assault weapon ban in the nation.”
“We have to go much further,” the ex-mayor replied.
“I believe for example when Washington, D.C., passed a law that nobody could have a gun except law enforcement and it was struck down by the United States Supreme Court, that we should overrule the Supreme Court with a Constitutional amendment. I don’t believe that in our society that we should have guns.”
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Deal?
“those individuals who are deemed in danger by the police commissioner”
So who is that...lib politicians and celebrities?
I believe guns are banned in Mexico. That’s why they have no crime down there and no gun violence, no murders.
I don't know about anybody else here but LE is the very last place I'd take refuge for protection of my life or my family's lives.
“So subject to those modifications,” he stated, “I don’t believe we should have millions of guns out there in the hands of people who are not part of law enforcement.”
Oh but we are in law enforcement, Ed. We are here to enforce the Constitution, especially the 2nd Amendment.
Let’s ban murder and robbery while we’re at it.
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So,,,,, Senile Dementia finally caught up with Ed.
I know a Jewish liberal who asked me what FFL I used for my guns. I gave him the contact info and he bought several guns. He’d never had one. Then, he asked us gun guys to take him shooting; which we did. He also bought several thousand rounds. Recently, I was talking to a liberal in the gym and it only took a minute or two and he understood that more guns meant less crime, not more. You could see the gears mesh and his mind change. I think the liberals are going to have a hard time banning guns.
An old gay geek that probably hasn’t been outside of Manhattan in forty years is in no position to understand America let alone speak for it. Hush up Ed.
Then run, RUN to the airport and head to a country where it is LEGAL to prohibit citizens from having guns. Because it is not legal here, nor will it ever be.
Go right ahead, Kroch ... ban your bodyguards from having guns. Reject any and all police protection for yourself.
We'll all watch and see how it works out for you.
If we like it, we'll voluntarily join with you.
If not ...
GFY, Kroch.
Gunowners: Ban all ex-NYC mayors, and throw in the current one for good luck.
Good luck getting 2/3 of the states to sign on to that.
The same Ed Koch who was photographed for a book cover holding a grenade in one hand and a seashell in the other?
“all U.S. civilians should be banned from owning any kind of gun, argued former New York City Mayor Ed Koch in a radio interview today.”
I seem to remember a guy with a funny moustache say the same thing about people in Germany.. got a bit of a short memory there Ed??
despicable what was said. But this former Mayor Koch is just the typical progressive-liberal neo-marxist. They want the second amendment basically overturned and re-written.
The same guy. He is a hypocrite, but all democrats are.
Hopefully a lot of people who have this fetish for anything with a badge get a wakeup call soon. Once the gun confiscations start, they are going to find out in big hurry just how much contempt LE has for the public. Got to youtube and search for police drug raids. Then just substitute the word "gun" for "drug" because that is the treatment you're going to get when your neighbors turn you in for not registering or turning in your guns. The police will blindly follow the orders of whoever is it's leash.
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