The great gun summit
I blogged the run up to this thing but others beat me to covering the issue. I figured it’d be more of the same pie-in-the-sky nonsense that has not worked in the past. Looks like I was right. Bruce says of Boston’s mayor:
No doubt, he’ll be sure the mention the decrease in the nationwide violent crime rate that has happened concurrently with more and more states loosening their restrictions on the rights of law-abiding citizens to carry concealed weapons for self-defense purposes.
He also notes this ridiculous assertion:
The problem is we don’t have a national policy on guns,” Menino said after the summit ended with a news conference and a signing of the statement of principles.
Has this guy read any gun laws? David Hardy has the text of the presser. He says it’s more of the same. Ayup.
In the presser, Bloomberg says:
The fight against illegal guns is one that reaches beyond our borders and today’s Summit opens the dialogue with leaders across this country who have made safety in their neighborhoods and on their streets a top priority. This is not a question of ideologies or a referendum on the Second Amendment. This is about public safety and making sure that illegal guns never make their way into the hands of criminals and onto our streets. Today, we shared our most innovative strategies for fighting illegal guns and we’ve created a plan to move forward to build the broadest coalition of leaders possible.
The trouble is, of course, that illegal guns in New York is almost all of them. With the exception of a few other localities, that is not the case every where else. Period. And you’re not going to change that.
April 27th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
According to them, all we need is more manufacturer law suits, more gun-tracking technology, and more crackdown [straw purchasers] gun dealers who sell guns to people they should have known were prohibited.