Sunday, January 15, 2012

An open letter to New York mayor Bloomberg and Mayors Against Illegal Guns

Dear Mayor Bloomberg: Recent news accounts have once again revealed an ugly truth about New York City: Through the adoption and enforcement of Draconian firearms regulations, the Big Apple is rotten to its core for treating a fundamental, constitutionally-protected civil right as a felony. These laws have recently entrapped a Marine Corps veteran, a female medical student, and the co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots organization. Their crime - at least in your jurisdiction - is that they traveled with firearms that are perfectly legal to possess anywhere else in the United States. Mayor Bloomberg, when you created Mayors Against Illegal Guns, you made it clear that New York style gun laws should apply across the nation. You also claimed your intent was not to infringe on Second Amendment rights, and that your proposals were “moderate.” Laws that penalize American citizens for exercising a civil right are hardly moderate. They reduce your credibility as a public servant and reinforce your image as a demagogue reigning over a gulag where the Constitution does not apply, and citizens who cross the Hudson River become political prisoners for exercising their rights. Such nonsense provides the foundation for our latest book Shooting Blanks - Facts Don’t Matter to the Gun Ban Crowd. Let’s look at the people your city’s gun laws have entrapped...more

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