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Oh, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. One moment, you're saying you need shooting lessons from Mayor Bloomberg. The next you're telling Newsday that you and your husband keep two rifles in your bed. Gillibrand said to Newsday, "If I want to protect my family, if I want to have a weapon in the home, that should be my right."
A Gillibrand aide later told Newsday that the Gillibrands have "gun safety procedures to ensure family safety," you know, since they have two young children, "but declined to say what steps" were taken. Chief of staff Jess Fassler also said one of the rifles was one the Senator won "at a county fair while campaigning. He said New York does not require anyone to register rifles." Gillibrand, whose views on guns are sort of changing, will be visiting Long Island, home of Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, whose husband was killed and son seriously wounded in the "Long Island Rail Road Massacre," lamented Gillibrand's gun control views last month, saying she'd run against Gillibrand in the 2010 primary or support someone who did.
The new Senator told Newsday she's not flip-flopping on her gun stance, saying her evolution is "broadening my focus on an issue to make sure I can be a leader in areas that I think are essential as a New York senator to protect our communities." And, referring to the city's limitations on gun ownership, "It's a false debate. it's political rhetoric that's sucking you in to believe that hunters owning a gun or an American citizen who wants to protect his home owning a gun somehow increases gun violence."
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Don't give in to them, KGil! The Constitution is alive and well, and though certain liberals like to intrepret it to say what they think---it's quite clear: The government cannot regulate your ability to bear arms unless it impinges on others' rights.
NYC's rules that requires $400 permits, red tape, and renewal fees are illegal and Bloomberg is a domestic threat to the Constitution.
Sounds like she'll be a hero to gun-toting hillbillies everywhere.
I don't see a problem with her owning a rifles and putting them under her bed. That's entirely within her rights. I'm not sure why it's an issue.
I personally don't think that's a dealbreaker for me when it comes to election time.
Call me naive, but every news story about kids accidentally shooting themselves seems to involve a gun that was hiding somewhere in the house. I'm not saying that will happen, and it's quite possible that they have a proper safe to prevent such a tragedy, but unfortunately not enough people take the proper safety measures to ensure tragedy does not happen because of a haphazardly placed firearm.
Did she celebrate Valentine's Day at the Production Lounge?
Does she intend to shoot stray deer at 3 am?
Is crime so rampant in Eire? - are robbers doing random home invasions in upscale white neighborhoods in Buffalo? that she feels to have not one, but two, rifles while she sleeps?
Does she think she is the well regulated militia that the Framers were extolling?
We could have had Cuomo, Nadler, Maloney, et alia for Senator, but Mr. Magoo gives us this bozo - the daughter of a Albany hack lobbyist, swamped in nepotism.
Is it wrong that I think she's kinda hot?
yes it is wrong. please save yourself.
Meh. She cleans up well for pics.
Everyone knows that under the bed is a prime spot to store stuff that you aren't planning on using anytime soon. If I had my guns in the city (a Winchester Model 94 30-30 and a Mossberg 500 12 gauge), that's where I'd keep them. They reside upstate though because I have absolutely no use for them here.
"Rep. Carolyn McCarthy McCarthy"--besides being a victim of Jenchungism--really doesn't have a shot against K-Gill.
If and when I Ever move back home to Yonkers from Phoenix, Az. you can best believe all of my firearms will be in attendance as well!! My Hometown has become a Cess Pool of thuggery on a scale I dare not elaborate on lest I offend someone. And I am Afro- Cuban so make of it what you will.
Yes, my fellow New Yorkers, outside of the City, it's possible to own a gun without asking City Hall if you may - gasp! Yes, not only may you own one or two or more "long-guns" or rifles or shotguns, but you don't need to register them. Why? New York Law permits it. Well, what about NYC Law? Well, first, NYC is part of New York State, but behaves like a country on its own. No other county in New York State has passed laws to regulate these types of guns. Why? New York State law applies and it's respected by counties North of the Bronx and East of Queens. NYC thinks it's better -- more educated, erudite and wordly than any other part of New York State -- and so it tries to behave like its own country. We are part of New York State and New York State law applies to it and other places.
The only mistake the new Senator made was she was candid and spoke without, probably, thinking first about a good sound-bite and how it'll play in Manhattan. She'll learn -- don't worry about that...
As to the 'one-horse', tin-horn lady elected to the Congress because of an unfortunate opportunity, go ahead... Please take a run against this Senator and she'll show you that those 'upstate' (and a lot of Long Islanders, too -- 'your' people) will vote you out and keep her in... Bella Abzug was a loudmouth and could get away with it. You ain't no Bella Abzug, lady.
Go ahead, make my day.
Will she put an end to public housing? Can the city give back the $5 billion it stole from Congress for NYCHA?
This "hillbilly" was born and lives in New York City. Good for our new Senator for exercising her right. Self defense is a civil right that many "civil rights" activists seem to forget. New York City has some of the harshest, most unfair and outright unconstitutional gun laws in the country and only serve to keep guns out of the hands of the law abiding.
I find liberals so amusing. They're all up in arms about the MTA officer who was arrested taking photos---as am I. Yet, when a law abiding citizen wants to own a gun that they keep in their bedroom, they Constitution all of the sudden doesn't matter.
NYS has lower murder, homicide, rape, and other violent crime rates than the USA average.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
On the other hand, Texas which has loose gun laws - and the death penalty - has among the highest.
Guns don't stop crime; they cause crime.
How many of you gun propagandists here who are so into self-defense actually did what the Constituion suggests: serve in a regulated militia?
I think I once beat you down here once before with your "facts."
You can't look at the actual numbers. It's silly; each state is a different size. You must look at the per capita numbers.
The best example is DC which has the most stringent gun laws in the US. Their rate (per capita) is higher than everyone else's.
"You can't look at the actual numbers... You must look at the per capita numbers."
Perhaps you should practice what you preach, my friend.
Perhaps you should read the stats that were provided to you.
They read: "Number of Crimes per 100,000 persons". Perhaps you do not realize that ratio is the same as "per capita". I know, I know. These Latin phrases are so challenging.
"The best example is DC".
My friend, that is the worst example. We are comparing states not municipalities, a small municipality at that - a microcosm. Where will you reach next in your desperation to prove an invalid point: East New York? When your mother sent you to the store to buy oranges, did you return with apples? That's what you are comparing here.
If you choose, we can also compare countries, and countries with strict gun laws have fewer violent crimes than this country, e.g., England, France, Germany, Japan. Correct?
Finally, I admire your attempt at humor: "I think I once beat you down here once before with your 'facts'."
Beat me down, buster? I wouldn't let a wanker like you beat me off. You'd probably start tugging at my finger, since you obviously don't know the difference between your ass and your elbow.
Thefacts, tsk, tsk.
You can turn these numbers to support whatever you want to. Compare laxer laws of NYS to the stricter NYC and suddenly it's stricter gun laws that actually "causes" violence?
For every example you want to find to prove your point, I can find out that disproves it.
Any respectable criminologist will tell you that there's very little correlation between gun laws and murder rate. And Washington, DC actually stands out as an exception--strict laws and extremely high murder rate.
England, France, and Germany ... and what about Switzerland?
Like the other poster, you are comparing a state to a municipality. That is disingenuous.
However, I see your point but it causes us to inject the ugly subject of cultural traditions. Certain areas of this country, state and city have higher murder rates due to their demographics. Call it race, culture, poverty, whatever. If these people didn't have guns to kill, they'd used knives.
We can discuss this all day, but when guns are available it is easier to use them to kill. Guns are much more efficient as a killing instrument than a knife or stick is.
How many times have you heard of a kid killing a sibling with a gun the parents had for 'protection'?
Do you really believe the second amendment implies that it gives you a right to have a licensed Ruger or Bushmaster?
Of what regulated militia are you a member?
I have owned both of the above firearms, unlicensed, and stored far away for emergencies, Doomsday, whatever. At the same time, I have walked in the toughest of NYC neighborhoods back in the day and have been robbed only twice, by a group of kids. No gun would have helped me. Their total take was 25ยข. Big deal. I got one punch to the back. Big deal. I would still walk in these areas. Showing no fear and exhibiting some street sense is the best weapon.
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I can't wait until some idiot child finds a gun under her bed & blows its head off. Sounds a bit mean, but seriously, unless she's going to wage a one-woman war on crime, she has no business with a gun. No one does.