(NY) Anti-Gun Mayors Plot Demise Of Gun Rights

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Anti-Gun Mayors Plot Demise Of Gun Rights

http://www.nraila.org/CurrentLegislation/Read.aspx?ID=2161

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Fresh off his appearance at a recent hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he railed against prohibiting the release of sensitive gun trace data for his efforts to sue the firearm industry out of existence, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) is not relenting in his anti-gun crusade. As reported by The New York Times (April 19, 2006) and elsewhere, a dozen mayors are planning to convene at the Mayor’s residence next week to discuss "reducing gun violence." Among the attendees will be Anthony Williams, Mayor of "Gun Ban City," a.ka., Washington, D.C. However, based upon the Bloomberg’s recent screeds against NRA, and in favor of gun control, coupled with the roster of anti-gun mayors planning to join Hizzoner, the outcome of this meeting is easily predictable-a united call for more restrictions on the rights of law-abiding gun owners. Like most anti-gun politicians, Bloomberg blames violence in his city on guns from other jurisdictions, and thus, is campaigning to enact additional federal gun control laws. Rather than acknowledging the reams of evidence that no gun control law anywhere has ever reduced crime and that enforcing existing law against criminals does, Bloomberg prefers to score cheap political points by scapegoating law-abiding gun owners for the acts of criminals.
 
There are two posibbilities: either NYC Mayor Bloomberg, Chicago Mayor
Daley and D.C. Mayor Williams will acknowledge that gun laws aimed at legal
ownership by the law abiding cause more problems than they solve:
that is, the mayors are part of the problem and not the solution; or
they will put the blame on someone else; that is, us gunowners.

I am not holding my breath on this one.
 
The question, the common-sense BASIC question that I wish the NRA and others would just pound into the populace via commercials and ads is this. And just this.

"If someone is willing to commit a crime like murder, which carries a sentence of death or life in prison...what makes you think they wouldn't commit a minor crime like illegal weapon possession?"

GUN LAWS DON'T WORK.
 
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