Another mayor quits
Via Georgia Packing, An Alaska mayor has quite Bloomberg’s Mayors against guns group (second letter):
Guarding Second Amendment rights was not a part of mayors’ coalition
This is in response to some recent questions about my involvement in the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition. I recently withdrew my name from the coalition after initially agreeing to sign on.
I do support the efforts to strengthen laws and prosecute individuals who dispense or use illegal guns, and getting them out of the hands of criminals. However, upon further review of the coalition, it appears they may have a different agenda than I anticipated.
I am concerned the coalition is working on issues that conflict with the beliefs we share in Alaska about legal gun ownership, and I’m also concerned gun ownership advocates are not part of the full discussion within the coalition. We cannot afford to risk protecting our Bill of Rights and the rights of legal gun owners.
Because of these conflicts, I have written to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, chair of the coalition, and have asked him to remove me as a supporter of the coalition.
We do have a problem in Anchorage with youth violence, gangs and their use of illegal guns. We are working with our gang task force, the Police Department and other means to eliminate the violence.
We’ll continue to fight that problem without infringing on the rights of legal gun owners.
—- Mayor Mark Begich
Anchorage
Good!
February 6th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
I saw his name on the list and I was having a tough time seeing Anchorage full of the types of ninnies and soccer moms that would swallow this type of crap.
Good.
February 6th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
[…] Well, the forces of gun grabberdom lost another one. Sayeth the Mayor of Anchorage, AK (not exactly where you’d expect to find politicians friendly to the guns-r-evil mantra, eh?): This is in response to some recent questions about my involvement in the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition. I recently withdrew my name from the coalition after initially agreeing to sign on. […]
February 6th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Like he didn’t originally know who these people were?