Posted on 02/21/2003 5:41:53 AM PST by SJackson
Then we need to see some massive changes in the political and legal systems of New York.
if the right to own a gun is based on the need to protect oneself, than ipso facto legalese mumbo jumbo, the ends justify the means, obviously he needed the gun and only his inability to apply for an application is his crime, not possession of an illegal gun...
MHO
teeman
Yeah, but this guy is likely to be convicted, pay fines, maybe do jail time, lose his right to vote and federal right to own a gun. A reasonable response is to refuse to live in a state that wants to treat you like a child. Only each and every state appears to be creeping down the road to the full nanny-state model of NY/NJ/Mass. Certainly it wasn't *THAT* long ago that California was still relatively free. That's only a memory now.
Retreat is a fine tactic, but it has its limits if victory is your eventual goal.
Given the close-run battle going on in Georgia right now, I'm not sure even the South will be a safe haven for much longer.
No.
I lived long enough in NY to realize it is a lost cause, politically and economically. There are some mighty fine people who live there. But, they are the distinct minority and mainly relegated to the sparsely populated upstate provinces out-of-control Liberals from downstate tax into poverty to support their socialist nostrums. The political climate is so bad even an unreconstructed RINO, like Pataki (or Nelson Rockefeller before him) is looked on as a 'good' governor. They even think a RINO like Giuliani is mainstream. Unfortunately, secession is not an option for upstate.
Nope. I see no hope common sense will return to this state in large enough doses to save it from itself. That's one reason I no longer live there.
People will continue to try and defend themselves in New York, and they will continue to be unfairly prosecuted for doing so. Such is the fear of guns in the City and on the Island that they would rather innocent people go to jail than their stupidity, control-freak and unConstitutional attitudes exposed!
;^)
"On Tuesday night a Queens man on leave from the Air Force shot and killed a burglar who tried to break into the Corona home of his mother, who had recently won $100,000 in the Win 4 Lottery game, police said. The man, Manuel Falquez, 22, illegally bought a 9-mm handgun last week to protect his mother, police said".
So Mr. Falquez, comes home on leave and the very next day arranges to purchase a pistol with absolutuely no trouble at all. Great stupid and worthless gun laws in New York, I'd say. My bet is that millions of New York residents are illegally, but Constitutionally, armed for self-protection.
...A positively Orwellian bit of logic; doublethink at its finest.
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