Heller Skelter
Various places with draconian gun laws aren’t happy with Heller. In NY:
New York City’s law isn’t as strict as that of the Columbia district, but it’s close. In New York City one needs a permit from the police department to keep a handgun at home. The problem is that the permitting process is entirely at the discretion of government officials. Mayor Bloomberg could instruct his police department to draw up a lawful licensing system that gives law-abiding, mentally sound adults with good vision the right to keep and bear a handgun.
I found this amusing:
In most places in this country there are few impediments to an individual keeping and bearing arms. Many states allow residents to walk into a sporting goods or other store, attest that they aren’t felons and are over the age of 21, and drive home with a pistol out in the open on the seat beside them, no license needed. That is even the norm in America.
You New Yorker should come visit America some time. And in Chicago:
If the Supreme Court strikes down the ability of municipalities like the District of Columbia to regulate guns, Chicago and other cities with handgun bans would see a return of gun stores and an upswing in crime, Mayor Richard Daley said Tuesday.
March 21st, 2008 at 8:58 am
Only special people in NYC are able to get pistol licenses, like those arrested for disorderly conduct.
March 21st, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I’m still pretty shocked that buying a handgun without a handgun permit is the norm in America, not the exception. A good shock.
March 22nd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
I am amazed that people can say whatever they want without having to get checked to see if what they say is factual or if they are saying it for improper motive first.
Remember the ruination of Richard Jewell by the news media rushing to the press with lies, half truths and innuendo, backed up by the fact that he was 30 and lived with his mother.
Reasonable regulation of the first amendment would have prevented his early death.
March 23rd, 2008 at 3:54 am
…….Chicago and other cities with handgun bans would see a return of gun stores and an upswing in crime, Mayor Richard Daley said Tuesday.
He probably didn’t really mean an upswing, but is worried about the competition from free lancers, especially in the shrinking victim pool once Chicago residents could resist criminals. His or others.
March 23rd, 2008 at 3:59 am
WW, you can’t lay that blame at the doorstep of the media. As much as I dislike and distrust them that particular train was driven by the FBI to cover their failure to prevent the crime or determine who did it. Richard Jewel’s crucifixion was a concerted effort by the FBI to nail anybody and save face. They didn’t give a damn who they nailed just as long as they could spin it to make themselves look good.
I remember that night very well, I happened to be in Atlanta, Ga. that night. I wasn’t at the Olympics but I can tell you it was a fustercluck.