Posted on 03/16/2007 3:18:22 PM PDT by TitansAFC
When Congress, at the request of many police officials, considered a broad ban on handgun bullets capable of piercing bulletproof vests, Mr. Giuliani – though personally supportive of the measure – pointed out flaws in the bill and laid out the [Reagan] Administration’s case for a weaker alternative more acceptable to gun lobbyists.
But he angered some [Reagan] Administrative officials when he added a single sentence to his testimony in which he urged Congress to pass the bill. A similar measure was passed several years later, after gun groups softened their opposition.
New York Times, October 11, 1989 (Emphasis Added)
In fact, the Mayor has been a strong proponent of gun control since his days as a Federal prosecutor, and early in his term, after the Brooklyn Bridge shootings in February of 1994, he proposed that guns be subject to the same licensing requirements as driving a car. He revived the issue last month after the Empire State Building shootings, effectively making a national policy issue out of a local incident.
Assuming that he eventually approves the use of hollow point bullets, as seems likely, he will have some insulation from charges that he is in any way gun-happy. With gun control overwhelmingly popular in the city as a whole, it is an issue that can’t miss, a political “no-brainer.”
“Whatever a New Yorker’s philosophical orientation, liberal, conservative, left or right, they have to share a small space,” said Raymond B. Harding, the Liberal Party leader and the Mayor’s top political adviser. “At that close proximity, guns are evil, and you don’t need a pollster to tell you that.”
The Mayor praised the proposals made Wednesday by President Clinton to keep guns out of the hands of non-citizens by imposing a residency requirement. But he said the idea doesn’t go far enough, and urged that owning a handgun be subject to the same scrutiny as operating a car: applicants should pass a written and a physical test, should be subject to a waiting period and a background check, and should be required to have liability insurance.
He acknowledged that this would require states to set up large bureaucracies – which he jokingly hoped would operate more efficiently than the Department of Motor Vehicles – but said the cost would be more than offset by the reductions in crime.
New York Times, March 7, 1997 (Emphasis Added)
In repeating his call for a national gun licensing law yesterday, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani introduced an unusual kind of “southern strategy” to his re-election platform: Blame five southern states if the city’s crime rate doesn’t continue its steep descent.
As he related it at a breakfast meeting of the Citizens Crime Commission yesterday, his thinking goes like this:
The city’s crime reductions cannot continue much further, he said, especially if guns continue to flow freely into New York from elsewhere in the country, where gun laws are more lax. The five southern states that account for 60 percent of the guns in the city are Florida, Georgia, Virginia, and North and South Carolina, he said, and if Congress would only impose handgun licensing on those states and the rest of the country, New York’s crime rate would plummet even further.
New York Times, March 7, 1997 (Emphasis Added)
Mr. Giuliani has long advocated national gun regulations, including background checks and waiting periods for gun purchases, and a ban on assault weapons. He has not changed, according to Ms. Mindel [a Giuliani spokesperson].
New York Times, November 14, 2005 (Emphasis Added)
You already have to have a license to get a handgun in NC (I know, because I live here).
Fortunately, it's a painless 5 dollar ordeal at the sherrif's office. I got mine...and am still waiting for the chance to use it.
I hope he doesn't win the nomination. The only place I want gun control is Iraq.
I wonder if Rudy knows just how large the NC Militia is.
But you have to promise the local sheriff that you know how to use it, and you know when "terrorist season" starts and ends!
Not to mention Rudy's attacks on gun makers and distributors .
Although you must get a license to PURCHASE a handgun, if you move here from elsewhere you don't have to REGISTER it.
Rudy is a fascist DEMOCRAT.
Yeah yeah, we all know you just posted this article against Rudy because you hate gay people. (sarcasm intended)
March 16, 2007 -- A conservative who once ran against Rudy Giuliani in New York is trying to puncture his national rise, with a dossier and a Web site that call him a "lifelong liberal."
"I think it is time that conservatives around the country begin to know the real Giuliani," said George Marlin, the former Port Authority head who ran on the Conservative Party line when Giuliani captured City Hall in 1993, describing his new Web site www.rudysreallyliberal.com.
said Raymond B. Harding, the Liberal Party leader and the Mayor’s top political adviser.
Rudy doesn't realize that the 2nd amendment is for EVERY state in the country.
I see no exceptions in the 2nd Amendment.
I just love the name of the wesite this appears on. Go get'em.
Well, none of my weapons have made their way to New York.
Once I get 'um I keep 'um. Drives the wife nuts. "What another one?" "No, Honey, this one's for the kid."
Giuliani is NO friend of the US Constitution. You just can't pick and choose which sections you like and which you don't. He won't get the vote of those of us who cherish the 10 original Articles of the BOR's.
"said Raymond B. Harding, the Liberal Party leader and the Mayor’s top political adviser."
Exactly! I seem to recall recently that someone here saying there was NO LIBERAL PARTY!
See, Rudy, the reason these are called "other states" is because they're not *your* state. Which means you don't have a say in their internal policy-making.
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