My tag line says it all.
this isn't even a fraction of the story with this mental-case mayor.
(D) - culture of hypocrisy
All the anti-gun congresscritter's security detail pack serious heat.
Don't you just love it!
Do as I say, not as I do?
FYI and a laugh ping
Another Demo-dick hypocrite. Nothing new here.
As a side note:
Officers to be added to Jackson gun interdiction unit
By Kelli Esters
kesters@clarionledger.com
Additional Jackson Police Department officers will be added to the gun-interdiction team, Mayor Frank Melton announced today.
The current six-person team has confiscated 95weapons and arrested 56 convicted felons in possession of handguns since it hit the streets in April, according to records.
The city will create eight additional spaces for officers who want to transfer to the unit, Melton said.
The gun-interdiction team is the latest local component of the national program Project Safe Neighborhoods, which President Bush initiated in 2001 to deter gun crime by setting up networks among local, state and federal agencies and allowing them to share resources.
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061121/NEWS/61121036
New York
A Bloomberg Anti-Gun Mayor Is Charged With Carrying Weapon
By JILL GARDINER
Staff Reporter of the Sun
November 22, 2006
One of the members of Mayor Bloomberg's anti-gun coalition has pleaded to charges of illegally carrying a gun into a church, onto a college campus, and into a park.
The mayor of Jackson, Miss., Frank Melton, is one of more than 100 mayors in the coalition Mr. Bloomberg and the mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino, created to push for stronger gun control laws.
But, last week, Mr. Melton — who according to news reports, carries firearms at all times and has a reputation for being tough on crime — pleaded no contest to carrying a concealed gun on the campus of a Mississippi College School of Law. He also pleaded guilty to carrying a gun into a church and into a park, also illegal under state law. The first was reduced from a felony charge to a misdemeanor; the latter two were misdemeanors.
Yesterday the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a firearm industry trade group, called on Mr. Bloomberg to insist on Mr. Melton's resignation.
"I write to inquire whether you, as co-founder of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition, will follow the lead of the firearms industry and demand Mayor Melton resign from public office?" the letter said. "Will you at least take the internal steps necessary to bar Mayor Melton from participating in your coalition?"
A spokeswoman for Mr. Bloomberg, Virginia Lam, called the National Shooting Sports Foundation letter a "publicity stunt."
"No one is above the law," Ms. Lam said, "but instead of mounting a public relations campaign to take down a tough opponent of illegal guns, the NSSF should be working with us to help keep illegal guns out of the hands of criminals."
Ms. Lam declined to say if Mr. Bloomberg had talked to the Jackson mayor, but said Mr. Melton was still invited to a planned conference the coalition is holding in January in Washington, D.C.
" Mayor Melton has been an important member since the beginning and we look forward to his continued contribution to the coalition," she said via e-mail.
The Mississippi attorney general, James Hood, was considering having Mr. Melton resign as part of a plea agreement, but the final deal included six months of probation instead and a $1,500 fine.
Mr. Melton still faces a batch of felony charges centered on accusations that he ordered a group to destroy a duplex with sledgehammers because of the drug problem there. Calls to Mr. Melton's office were not returned yesterday.
http://www.nysun.com/article/43999
I moved from Jackson last year, and I'm glad I got out when I did. It seems the Jackson police department is imploding, the streets are going to pot, and crime is going up. All the while, Frank has been going on raids to show how tough a guy he is.
I really liked Frank when he was Manager of WLBT-TV 3. He would have some really tough commentaries against crime, and call some of the crooks out.
However, he doesn't realize there's more to being a mayor besides dressing up in a SWAT suit, brandishing a weapon, and playing policeman at crack houses.
One theory is is that he's in a turf war with other gang bangers, and he simply has the political clout behind him to win it.
as always, democrats consider themselves above the laws that they pass for the rest of us chickens. as the saying goes, if you control guns, only criminals and democrats will have them. (the perpetual one-finger salute to the democrats, always.) (rather; make that thieving, hateful, intolerant, bigoted, christian-hating, bolshevik democrats)
(change that; make it arrogant, thieving, hateful, intolerant, bigoted, christian-hating, islamo-fascist loving bolshevik democrats)
(forgot murdering hyenas) (no offense to hyenas)