Tuesday, January 10, 2006

And Now For Something Completely Similar…

New York is some kind of town, and its mayor is usually something else as well. Its current mayor, RINO Michael Bloomberg, seeks to enter and revive the national debate on gun rights by saying it is our fault that New York has gun crime. Again, this is bad comedy.

In the New York Daily News recently, , Bloomberg cited the statistic that most guns used in crime in New York, in addition to being illegal are also from certain states overwhelmingly, like Florida and Georgia.

The paper provided this insight into the left’s feelings on his remarks.

Gun control advocates said that as the Republican mayor of the country's largest city - and one of the GOP's most generous donors - Bloomberg could be uniquely positioned to influence the national gun control debate.

"If he can make an alliance of governors and mayors - particularly Republican governors and mayors - it could greatly help us," said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-Fantasy Land), an author of the Brady Bill, which requires background checks for handgun purchases. "We haven't had a major Republican voice speaking out for gun control in a long time."

Bloomberg has about as much chance of influencing the Republican party to buy into his line of drivel as I do of convincing Ted Kennedy to go SCUBA diving in the Chappaquiddick. (How’s that Scotch and Murky Water taste, Senator?).

People like Bloomberg always like to examine things from their own little microcosm. Water’s wet, the sky’s blue and New York is all that matters. Say, Mr. Mayor, that every state got rid of guns, the collective w@t dream of the left. Then what? Would New York become gun free? Would crime magically stop? No, criminals still would want guns, you see. They’d want them just like English, Canadian and Australian criminals still want them and they will get them from some other source if they can’t get them locally. They’ll obtain them from Third World nations or former communist nations or just some entrepreneurial nation that starts developing its own guns for sale on the open market.

Crime is the ultimate free market and if people want a product bad enough then nine times out of ten they get it. Will you stop them all, Mr. Bloomberg? Is that a red S I see emblazoned on your T-shirt under that suit and tie? Your assessment just like others before it that reached the same conclusion is not worth the paper your speechwriter wrote it on. Such measures do not work. Prosecute the felons. Put them in jail or end their existence with a jolt from old sparky. Crime will go down. Despite feel-good lefty assertions to the contrary that amazingly does work.

You also have as much right telling another state what to do as you have commanding the sun to rise when you feel like waking up in the morning. Such ego trips often fall just as hard as they rise and my sincerest hope is that Mr. Bloomberg’s follows that pattern. Sweet dreams in your fantasy land, Mr. Bloomberg.

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