How many people reading this this morning will follow the Slimes logic and conclude that "illegal" guns just aren't illegal enough?
The real crime here is where they try to tie the guns to other states by using the "where the guns were last sold" line.
A firearm purchaser in Pennsylvania goes through the same background check as a firearms purchaser in California. If the buyer comes up clean, the sale goes through.
If that firearm is stolen in a robbery and then sold on the streets of NY (or used in a crime), that is not Pennsylvania's fault.
But liberals doe not care about facts....its all about feel good legislation that increases their power over the people.
Wait... on 2nd thought.......
Building the case for a national ban.
More important is the problem of criminals on the city's sidewalks.
Einstein Award candidate.
They are not illegal guns...they are migrant guns!
A full auto AR-15 is an illegal weapon, a Baretta 9mm semi-auto is not. But the guy holding it is committing an illegal act. Only when the Dems start putting the blame where it belongs, on the criminals, will they ever figure it out.
Guns don't kill people. People kill people.
God bless our troops wherever they may be.
My goodness - charts, graphs, statistics, maps; everything but the kitchen sink... all calculated deliberately to avoid arriving at the starkly obvious conclusion that firearms are already (all but) illegal, and thus criminals have them and the law-abiding do not - so that the latter cannot defend themselves either against robbery or assault.
Kinda reminds one of the Village Idiot who exerted himself mightily, twisting and thrashing with all his strength, to stand on his head in the town square and whistle "Yankee Doodle" out his butt in order to "prove" that human beings don't speak with their mouths, tongues, and vocal cords.
If Bloomberg would make firearms readily available to the law-abiding, his "gun problem" would go away in a matter of months - but it seems he'd rather stand on his head in the town square. Well, perhaps it's more fun than rational behavior, after all; he certainly gets more attention that way than he would by thinking clearly and acting responsibly.
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The problem of illegal guns is basically that they've made guns illegal.
Arm everyone, lockup or hang the bad guys. Its what the founders intended.
If you were to take those maps and then superimpose maps of drug trafficking, I would imagine they would be nearly an exact match.
Is it really that bad?
Fewer crimes, more complaints in city's toughest precinct
"In the last year, under Operation Trident, the results in the 75th have been dramatic: 100 fewer cars were stolen compared to 2004, 125 fewer people were robbed, 91 fewer places were burglarized, and there were 75 fewer felony assaults.
"I think it's been a tremendous success," Kelly told reporters recently. "We've gotten very positive feedback from the community. The program has worked well for us."
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/nyc-prof0108,0,7329895.story?coll=nyc-homepage-mezzbox