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William Bratton: The Real Cures for Gun Violence ('certainty of punishment')
Wall Street Journal ^ | January 18, 2013 | By DAVID FEITH

Posted on 01/18/2013 8:47:48 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

The last time America had a gun-control debate was the early 1990s, and it was followed by the great two-decade-long decline in American crime. The irony is that gun control had very little to do with that decline.

William Bratton did. Serving as New York City's top cop for 27 months from 1994 to 1996, he helped turn around a violent, crime-ridden city with policies that later were adopted nationwide and across the globe. The 65-year-old now runs a consulting business and a tech firm that focus on law enforcement, and in a recent chat he puts the gun debate in the context of policies that really have made America safer.

As announced Wednesday, President Obama wants more federal and state information-sharing, more data collection and better training for local law enforcement. But the heart of his proposals, and the most controversial, are his requests that Congress reinstate the ban on "assault weapons" that lapsed in 2004, outlaw ammunition clips holding 10 or more rounds, and extend mandatory background checks to almost all gun sales. . .

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TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: Fireone

It’s been quite a while since I got familiarization with an M-16. I seem to remember that once one magazine was emptied it took about a second to release the empty magazine and about two more seconds to slap in a loaded mag. Am I wrong?


21 posted on 01/19/2013 6:49:05 AM PST by Ax
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To: Ax

You are correct.
I just get irritated when these “experts” use completely incorrect terms to describe what they think they’re banning.
Some ammo comes on “stripper clips”, which facilitate the rapid insertion of that ammo into a magazine. The magazine is then inserted into the magazine well of a rifle.
Clips and magazines are not the same thing, but are too often interchanged by the “journalists”, and now some political LEO’s, as well.


22 posted on 01/19/2013 6:55:33 AM PST by Fireone (Impeach and imprison, NOW! Treason and murder are still crimes.)
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To: mylife
Although blacks make up only 23% of New York's population, for example, they accounted for more than 60% of all murder victims in 2011 and committed some 80% of all shootings.

William Bratton said the above? OMG - telling the truth makes a person racist... does he know that?

23 posted on 01/19/2013 7:37:49 AM PST by GOPJ ( Gang members breaking down YOUR door- daughter and wife screaming for help - Dems took YOUR gun....)
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To: Fireone

Thanks, Fireone.


24 posted on 01/19/2013 8:48:04 AM PST by Ax
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