Posted on 07/11/2007 6:36:38 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
WASHINGTON - Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined members of the local congressional delegation and mayors, lawmakers and law enforcement officers from around the country yesterday to blast federal legislation limiting police use of federal gun traces.
Bloomberg and others spoke out against the Tiahrt Amendment, a rider on the Justice Department appropriations bill since 2003 that bars police from using ownership traces by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for far-reaching investigations.
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I wonder if Bloomberg thinks the Justice Department should just violate the law. The law is written the way it is for a reason. It is the compromise reached by the legislative process.
I would wager that the many of the ones who are kvetching about this compromise are the same ones who are demanding we swallow Comprehensive Immigration Reform in one gulp.
It makes no sense that Rhode Island should have has many Senators as California, except that without that compromise there would be no Rhode Island, no California and no Senate.
“I wonder if Bloomberg thinks the Justice Department should just violate the law.”
No, Bloomberg simply thinks that if he were appointed King for Life of the United States, and allowed to tear up the constitution, we would all be a happier - and more pacified - nation of sheeple.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
That was pretty much my take on the thing as well. Much like when legislators sell some vast expansion of government power as necessary to combat the bogeyman du jour (drunk driving, child molestation, people getting high, etc.), then the state uses the resulting powers on everyone else as well.
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