New York State can do what it wants, I honestly have given up after realizing that New Yorkers and Texans have very little in common. Texans can read and understand the words “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Evidently most New Yorkers cannot.
So Gov. Andrew Cuomo, liberal statist politics in his DNA, is proposing three sweeping changes, two of which are bad ideas and one of which will make no difference when it comes to stopping shooters like the Newtown killer.
Sources said the package is expected to include:
* New restrictions on assault weapons
* Stiffer penalties for using a gun to commit a crime
* New limits on the number of bullets in a gun magazine
“Assault weapon” is a meaningless term. Change it to “scary looking guns that liberals don’t understand” and you’ll be closer to the truth. Limiting magazine sizes can be overcome with duct tape, and may impair the law-abiding citizen’s ability to defend ourselves from killers that the state routinely releases back into the wild. Stiffer penalties for crimes involving guns is fine, but would it really stop someone like the Newtown killer or the Columbine pair? They killed themselves after killing others. Most of these high profile mass murderers are suicidal. The ones who aren’t tend to be egomaniacs who don’t care what happens after their spree gets them in the news. The worst elementary school killer in US history — Andrew Kehoe — did not use a gun, never played a video game, plotted his crimes for about a year, and killed himself once he had achieved his revenge. Sentencing his fragmented corpse to a million year sentence would not have changed a thing.
In Texas we’re responding to the Newtown tragedy a little differently. Gun control as such is not on the agenda of the legislature, whose session opened today. There is a bill in the works to allow teachers concealed carry in classrooms, though. We recognize that our children are more precious than the money we protect with armed guards in our banks, and that our personal freedoms should not be taken away because some career politician thinks they know better than we do.
They don’t. Many of them have no real world experience outside their bubbles of wealth and 24/7 protection. In a sane world, we could take turns mocking and then ignoring them.
It’s because the Democratic politicians in NY state are a bunch of bigots. To understand that all you have to do is look at the people they are trying to keep defenseless. Remember the newspaper that printed all the names and addresses of permit holders, well try and get a legal gun permit in some of the more dangerous parts of the city. Who do you think is more likely to get a gun permit in NY – some celebrity, who lives in a secure building, in an upscale part of town, and walks around with a troop of bodyguards – or – a guy running a bodega, that stays open late, in the South Bronx.
It’s impossible to get a conceal carry permit in NYC. However, make no mistake, there are plenty of upstate New Yorkers who think like Texans, as evidenced by the number of permit holders on that map. They won’t take this lying down…
Check out the Sullivan Law. A crook/product of the New York machine passed this law in 1911 under the guise of safety, that murders would decline in NYC. They didn’t, but in the first three years of the Sullivan Law, 70% of those arrested had Italian surnames. In practice, it was purely anti-immigrant. The NY Appeals Court upheld the law because it may do something good. Sound familiar?
Some citations:
http://web.archive.org/web/20011101114812/http://www.2ndlawlib.org/journals/economic.html
http://www.guncite.com/court/state/139nys277.html
People are idiots. Remember when Bush was derided for not wanting hate crimes legislation in Texas, and groups used the example of what happened to James Byrd when he was dragged to his death. They used that as an example of why hate crimes laws were needed, even though 2 of the 3 convicted in his murder are on (or maybe not anymore, this is Texas after all) DEATH ROW. How could a hate crimes law increase their sentences? Fine. Increase the sentences for using a gun. However, when it is already a capital crime, I doubt if any criminal would care. But it makes the politicians feel important and that is all they care about. As the man said, gun control is not about guns, but control.
As far as I can tell, if someone wants to murder you, they pretty much hate you, with or without a “hate crime” law.
I’m also wondering, if you are killed as a result of a “hate crime” are you somehow more dead that if you are killed during an armed robbery?
Yes. You see, counter to commonly held assumptions, liberals are extremely religions. They have vast reservoirs of faith. For example, they believe that if you ban guns there will be less violence, even though they can’t cite one complete dataset corroborating their claim. Why do you think every time a state liberalized concealed carry the faithful were there to proclaim that blood would run in the streets as people shot each other over parking spots and fender benders? (Oops, that never happened, either. Voilence generally declined.)
Back to the matter at hand. If the victim is killed in a hate crime, there is a higher, more morally superior heaven these victims go to. Much like if a terrorist dies murdering people who personally did nothing against them, he gets 40 virgins or whatever.
So now you know why liberals support terrorists. Both groups have deeply abiding faith, even though there’s no reality supporting their faith. Indeed, the very fact they live on faith alone and ignore the realities of the world only serves to strengthen their faith. That the world is so against them only redeems their faith.
As a recovering liberal, I understand this. Treatment is available.
– year he finally marries Sandra Lee and then declares his candidacy for President.
No. Cartridges or rounds go into guns; bullets come out.
…and to continue these thoughts:
Information ‘goes into’ Progressives , but Drivel, Blather and Illogic come out…..geometrically.
Sounds like assault prostiticians: You get a constant stream of blather with one press of the microphone switch. We need a ban on assault prostiticians. Imagine how much cleaner and quieter society would be. And safer, too.