Please, can someone tell me why NY Repugs seem to support gun control. Why is it that those that become Mayor of NY City are so very broken on the topic.
Because New York City is one place where gun control is popular among the political elites uniformly. Being pro-gun gets you nowhere in New York because most of the population have no experience at all with firearms, probably never even touched one. The entire city radiates anti-gun attitudes. South New Jersey on its own would be a relatively gun friendly state. North New Jersey, which is a suburb of New York dictates the state’s gun laws, and they uniformly sucks. New York State’s gun laws suck too, despite the fact that the rest of the state on its own would be very pro-gun. CT has moved in the anti-gun direction in the past decade as well.
I feel bad for the upstaters. Culturally they aren’t that far off from Pennsylvania, but New York City is huge. Pennsylvania is pro-gun because the rest of the state greatly outnumbers Philadelphia. If Philadelphia were as big as New York City, our gun laws would suck too.
November 15th, 2006 at 9:10 am
Please, can someone tell me why NY Repugs seem to support gun control. Why is it that those that become Mayor of NY City are so very broken on the topic.
November 15th, 2006 at 10:20 am
Because New York City is one place where gun control is popular among the political elites uniformly. Being pro-gun gets you nowhere in New York because most of the population have no experience at all with firearms, probably never even touched one. The entire city radiates anti-gun attitudes. South New Jersey on its own would be a relatively gun friendly state. North New Jersey, which is a suburb of New York dictates the state’s gun laws, and they uniformly sucks. New York State’s gun laws suck too, despite the fact that the rest of the state on its own would be very pro-gun. CT has moved in the anti-gun direction in the past decade as well.
I feel bad for the upstaters. Culturally they aren’t that far off from Pennsylvania, but New York City is huge. Pennsylvania is pro-gun because the rest of the state greatly outnumbers Philadelphia. If Philadelphia were as big as New York City, our gun laws would suck too.
November 15th, 2006 at 11:13 am
Yeah, sure! You can trust Rudy. He’s gonna leave the borders open and take your guns.