A coalition of mayors working to crack down on illegal guns in the United States may soon include Toronto Mayor David Miller.
I think admitting foreign mayors is a great idea. Maybe they could also invite the mayors of Havana and Beijing and...
Monday, June 11, 2007
Foreign Mayor to Join Bloomberg Coalition?
I think admitting foreign mayors is a great idea. Maybe they could also invite the mayors of Havana and Beijing and...
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Moron Miller is a dyed-in-the-wool leftist pinko socialist, who up until recently was a card carrying member of our New Democratic (Socialist) Party. He hates guns and hates gun owners. He'd be in good company with Fidel and his merry band of fellow travellers...
Personally, I would like Bloomberg to produce verifiable data that shows the total amount of firearms seized from wrongdoers, and the number of those firearms that were actually used in the commission of a violent crime.
That's still a long way from backing up his reasoning behind disarming potential victims, but it's a start.
By the way, this is semi-related, but I turned it up when researching our AG's position on certain federal agencies. It's a total surprise piece by the AP. I guess hatred is a good motivator:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CRIME_FIGHTING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
"The poor communication, in particular, resulted in three so-called "blue-on-blue" cases where federal agents mistook each other for criminals.
Those incidents, which the report found "put officers' safety at risk," included:
-An undercover ATF agent and informant in Chicago bought a loaded gun from an informant working for the FBI's Safe Streets task force.
-FBI Safe Streets agents in Atlanta pulled over a member of a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force whose car matched the description of a suspect both teams were looking for.
-ATF agents working an undercover sting at a Las Vegas gun show arrested a suspect for illegally buying firearms. The buyer turned out to be an informant working for the FBI - even though the ATF had taken steps to make sure there would be no overlap between federal agencies.
Fine's inspectors studied task forces in eight cities: Atlanta, Birmingham, Ala., Camden, N.J., Chicago, Gary, Ind., Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. Nearly 130 task force members in the cities reported working on at least 45 duplicate investigations."
Yes, the AG has since issued instructions to coordinate, so there's more time wasted on red tape.
But this is the holy grail of modern social engineering: Absolute authority over possession, and perfect accountability of all weapons. It's too great a prize to abandon the quest. No separatist is too remote, no informant too unreliable, no expense too great, no power undelegated, no right inalienable, and ultimately, no citizen sufficiently law-abiding. And we can assume that, if they attain it, they will not have pursued it with such vigor simply for the pride of accomplishment.
Actual public safety will not be addressed.
Is it just me or does the phrase "common-sense gun control" make you want to choke the person uttering it?
Perhaps Mayor Bloomberg could pick up the support of a few more mayors in places like Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Vietnam and elsewhere.
If he doesn't want to solicit them personally, though I don't see why not since he's already gone international, perhaps we could help him.
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