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Bloomberg's Foot

Submitted by Charles Petrik, Dec 9, 2006 07:08

Mayor Bloomberg wants to meddle in activities that occur everywhere else in the U.S., meanwhile he choses to ignore the problems of the city he was elected to run. He needs to solve school problems, gang problems, crime problems, police corruption, and crimes by illegal aliens (who crime statistics released by the GAO show are repeat offenders). The City of New York has many needs, yet Bloomberg only seems to focus on his obsession with guns. Guns are only about 400 years old, and there were plenty of crimes committed in the world before the invention of the gun. Criminals used knives, swords, bows, crossboes, battle axes, poisons, etc.

Even if a miracle occurred, and all guns were to magically vanish, criminals would build more (as a prisoner in a California state prison did, out of plumbing parts and other metal he scounged up).

Everyone claims that our government will protect us, so that there is no need for citizens to own guns. If you go to the library and look at the articles written back in the 70's and 80's, you see that the same problems that we read about today (terrorism, illegal aliens, gang violence, crime) are all printed in those old papers, so this pretty much PROVES that the government is not ever going to actually be able to protect Americans, so we should have a way to protect ourselves.

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As a veteran of WWII and an observer of New York City's tough stand on lawful citizens possing firearms, I... [MORE]	Charles O'Laughlin, Brooklyn, NY	Dec 11, 2006 22:11
So, using Mayor Bloomberg's logic, if a citizen of New York commits a crime elsewhere, We'll appoint a person to... [MORE]	jim hargest	Dec 11, 2006 08:39
mayor bloomberg is creating extreme heartship for me, cause i am a licenced gun holder in suffolk and was arrested... [MORE]	charles paci	Jan 29, 2007 20:35
When it took 8 months to approve my concealed carry permit in Ontario County N.Y.in 1975 I saw the"handwriting on... [MORE]	Fred Fuhrer	Dec 10, 2006 18:55
Mayor Bloomberg has no authority to go to another state and do anything! Any Federal Judge that would allow this... [MORE]	Stuart S. Strickler	Dec 9, 2006 10:49
Mayor Bloomberg wants to meddle in activities that occur everywhere else in the U.S., meanwhile he choses to ignore the...	Charles Petrik	Dec 9, 2006 07:08
If people who question human evolution or man-made global warming are considered to be out of touch with reality because... [MORE]	woodpiggie	Dec 8, 2006 23:58
The mayor of New York is totally out of touch with real people and real life situtions. He lives the... [MORE]	Wayne Caudill	Dec 8, 2006 21:23
Re footnote to December 8 editorial "Bloomberg's foot": The "favorite fact" of the editorial needs a more complete review. It's... [MORE]	Jack Weaver	Dec 8, 2006 15:08
An excellent article. Thank you. And as a non-New Yorker, I would just like to say you are exactly right.... [MORE]	David Smith	Dec 8, 2006 13:42