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Posted on 01/03/2006 12:18:42 PM PST by neverdem
Only hours after Mayor Bloomberg vowed in his second inaugural address to launch a national campaign against "illegal guns," the gun rights lobby is mobilizing to respond, with the influential National Rifle Association accusing the mayor of "intimidating law abiding Americans."
On Sunday, as Mr. Bloomberg was sworn in for his second term, he invoked the names of police officers shot and killed in the line of duty as he announced a new, central focus of his administration - protecting New Yorkers from what he called "the scourge of illegal guns" by taking a message for tougher gun laws to "Albany, to Washington, and to every capital of every state that permits guns to flow freely across its border." He called it the city's "most urgent challenge."
The administration has yet to provide concrete details of its new approach, though it seems to involve asking other states to adopt and enforce New York-style laws requiring the registration and licensing of all handguns. But the ambiguity of the city's new gun agenda hasn't stopped Second Amendment proponents from beginning to fight back.
"I think Mayor Bloomberg ought to focus on New York City, given that that's his area of responsibility. He has challenges over there because he has misplaced priorities," the director of public affairs at the National Rifle Association, Andrew Arulanandam, said. "Rather than focusing on enacting more gun control laws that only affect law abiding citizens, he should make sure that criminals pay the harshest penalties for breaking the law."
When asked if the rifle association is intimidated by Mr. Bloomberg's newly aggressive posture, Mr. Arulanandam said: "We take every threat towards the rights of law abiding Americans seriously, but we think the mayor would be better served if he would put his financial muscle and the muscle of...
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"Illegal guns" . . . you know . . . ones that shoot bullets.
Mayor Menino of Boston said something similar yesterday after he was sworn in as Mayor for Life.
At least he donates to the GOP. /s
Boy am I glad I missed this. The tiny little hamburgers had me going, and the free scarf, but it looks like I made the right decision. I would have been booing my lungs out.
Doesn't the Blooming idjits bodyguards have real guns with real bullets?
(He said as a "prominent Republican" the mayor might be able to "hold others in his party accountable for their wrong decisions on guns.")
He may be prominent, but he's no Republican. The man is the personifiIation of the word "RINO".
This is precisely why a Republican from the Northeast will never secure the GOP nomination for the White House in 2008 or any time in the foreseeable future.
Guess it is "legal" for them.
Yikes.
Bloomey is getting too big for his britches.
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This mayor is a complete moron. NY has one of the toughest gun laws in the country, yet the bad guys have no trouble getting guns. Not to mention the fact that liberal judges continue walking bad guys. The law abiding people have such an extreme difficult time to get a gun permit, they give up trying. Arm the good guys and defeat the bad guys!!
Sounds like he is taking his lines from leftist (Liberal, Bloc, Green, and NDP) Canadian politicians.
I wish it were so, but he is a self made billionaire who's giving the sheeple what they think they want. Unfortunately, the sheeple get what they deserve.
BloomBoob is so awful, that as such a previously life-long, hard core dem, he makes other RINOs look good.
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