First the NRA attacked my common sense gun plan which would create an Interstate Compact to go after guns at their source and allow parents to give the police permission to search their homes and take away illegal guns, with no charges being filed for possession of the gun.
Then they tried to bury a common sense measure in the State Senate that would allow us to trace a gun used in a crime, even if the gun wasn't left at the scene.
And now, the current situation in the State Senate is working to their advantage, freezing the measure.
We can't let the NRA hijack a common sense gun control agenda. Please join me and New Yorkers Against Gun Violence in fighting back.
Richard Aborn is a former Manhattan prosecutor, former president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City, and a candidate for Manhattan District Attorney.
GAFFNEY, S.C. (July 7) -- People terrorized by a serial killer who shot five people to death in their small community were relieved after police said they killed the man responsible. But with his death, an answer to the bloody spree remains unknown.
Suspected killer Patrick Burris, 41, was a career criminal paroled just two months ago, authorities said. He was shot to death by officers investigating a burglary complaint at a home in Gastonia, N.C., 30 miles from where the killing spree started June 27.
Burris had a long rap sheet filled with convictions for larceny, forgery and breaking and entering in states across the Southeast, including Florida, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. He had been paroled from a North Carolina prison in April after serving almost eight years.
"Look at this," Lloyd said, waving a stapled copy of Burris' criminal record. "This is like 25 pages. At some point the criminal justice system is going to need to explain why this suspect was out on the street."
Mr. Aborn, when are you going to learn that keeping career criminals behind bars is the "common sense" our country needs.
Fairfax, Va. – Two-thirds of the nation’s attorneys general have filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari in the case of NRA v. Chicago and hold that the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This bi-partisan group of 33 attorneys general, along with the Attorney General of California in a separate filing, agrees with the NRA’s position that the Second Amendment protects a fundamental individual right to keep and bear arms in the home for self-defense, disagreeing with the decision recently issued by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
The Seventh Circuit claimed precedent bound it from holding in favor of incorporation of the Second Amendment. However, it should have followed the lead of the recent Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Nordyke v. King, which found that those cases don't prevent the Second Amendment from applying to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. The Seventh Circuit opinion upholds current bans on the possession of handguns in Chicago and Oak Park, Illinois.
California attorney general Edmund G. Brown Jr. is filing a separate brief arguing that the Supreme Court should take up NRA’s appeal and hold that the Second Amendment is incorporated against the States.
http://www.nraila.org/News/Read/NewsReleases.aspx?ID=12654
"Simply put, there is not one single, legitimate reason why assault weapons should be made available to the public. Coupled with their large volume clips capable of carrying numerous rounds of ammunition (described in one ad as "extreme firepower"), these weapons of war have no legitimate purpose in civilian hands and are used to assault our police officers by criminals bent on destruction. Congress, which shamelessly allowed the ban on assault weapons to lapse in 2004, should redeem itself by renewing the ban now. "
Well, Mr. Aborn, I have asked the following question of many of your fellow anti-gun travelers and thus far, not one of them has had the guts to address my question directly. Let’s see if you have the integrity:
Two thugs, one armed with a ball bat & the other armed with a large hunting knife, have broken into our home and are advancing down the hall toward our bedroom? I’m out of town. 911 has been called and the police are only 10 minutes away. It’s just that the thugs are 10 SECONDS away! How many rounds of ammunition do you think my wife needs and would you allow my wife to have in the magazine of her pistol as she uses her other hand to shepherd our two grandchildren behind her body to defend them? 2? 6? 10? 15? 30?
Old SF MJT
(Martin)
How many rounds of ammunition do I need in my AR carbine as I defend my home & my family from the looting thugs coming out on the evening of the fourth day without power, stranded by flood waters and washed out roads in the aftermath of a category 3 hurricane, knowing that I cannot rely on an already weary and overburdened police force? How many rounds, Mr. Aborn?
Old SF MJT
(Martin)
Your failure to respond to my questions 'says' quite a lot!
Old SF
What you're proposing is full gun registration. We've seen how well that worked out for legal firearm owners after the "Assault Weapon" bans were passed, didn't we?
You;re a candidate for district attorney yet you support letting criminals remain out on the streets.
And people wonder why 80-90% of crime is committed by people w/ criminal records.
You mean the NRA opposes letting people get away with a crime? You don't say! If it's an "illegal gun", charges should be filed against the person who brought the gun into the home. That way we can get more than just an easily replaceable gun off the street. We can get both the gun and the criminal in one swipe.
"Then they tried to bury a common sense measure in the State Senate that would allow us to trace a gun used in a crime, even if the gun wasn't left at the scene."
Just call it what it is: Microstamping. A technology that is not only easily defeated, but can't even be reliably implemented due to the fact that anyone can go to a gun range, grab a handful of microstamped brass, and essentially spread it around the crime scene to throw off investigators. Not to mention the technology is useless in revolvers and shotguns.
not being enforced and you want to put more laws on the books. For what reason? If a rational person
looked at the amount of "guns" out there and the actual crimes committed by law - abiding citizens
you would find that there is no reason for more laws. Make the laws such that if someone commits
a crime with any sort of gun, then the time in jail goes up. Keep the criminal off the street and you will
see a lot of progress.
Lou
If you commit a crime how can you be considered law abiding?
As for the new buzz of "common sense gun laws" it's just sweeter icing for the same old cake! We already have common sence gun laws. Its already illegal for criminals to have guns. You have to do a background check for every firearm purchase.
New York should try a new approach to their violence problem- go with a florida style "shall issue" carry law. that requires the state to issue concealed weapon permits to anybody who asks for one- in the abscence of good cause to deny such a request- . New York (and everywhere else for that matter)should also keep violent criminals in prison for good.
Its easy for people to advocate gun control. Do you ever hear of anybody wanting to outlaw cars to curtail DUIs? Lets Close every bar and ban the sale of alcohol in resturants AND require automakers to have breathalyzer ignition locks standard on cars from now on!
As if common sense has EVER been entertained by the NRA. If it had, this country's rate of death by firearms would be much lower. Common sense dictates that if you can go into a gun store and have to submit to rules and regulations before purchasing a firearm but you can go to a gun "show" and purchase one (or a dozen) without the rules and regulation part - you should fix the loop hole. Not the NRA. Their track record speaks for itself.
It's not the NRA, Mr. Aborn. It's your opinion of what is "common sense." Prioritizing the regulation guns instead of criminals shows you have none.
Because it was a not a good sense plan.
"Then they tried to bury a common sense measure in the State Senate that would allow us to trace a gun used in a crime, even if the gun wasn't left at the scene"
"Commen sense", along with "reasonable", are common euphemisms used by gun controllers to try to justify anything they want regardless of whether they actually make any sense (most of the time they don't) or are reasonable (most of the time they aren't).
Bullies always loose their guts when someone finally sticks it to them.
Of course if you are advocating a campaign of violence against the NRA, then I will just have to report your post the the FBI for communicating a threat via electronic means accross state lines.