Washington, DC, council member and former mayor (and recovering tax evader and drug addict) Marion Barry has introduced a bill to suspend temporarily the 30-year-old handgun ban in the nation’s capital. Citizens would be given a 90-day window in which to register their handguns for legal possession. Current gun restrictions would then set in again. “We are in the midst of a gun-violence epidemic,” Barry said. “We need to see gun violence as an emergency in the District of Columbia.” Is that so? It sure sounds as if Barry is admitting that guns in the hands of the citizenry reduce criminal violence, not elevate it. Of course, his change of heart could be due to his being robbed at gunpoint himself last year.
Further north, in New York City, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) is investigating Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s little “sting” operations to entrap gun dealers. According to Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation, “Mayor Bloomberg dispatched private investigators to several states, where they apparently made straw-gun purchases in an effort to file civil lawsuits against gun dealers. The mayor refused to turn over alleged evidence obtained during this vigilante operation to ATF or other proper authorities and instead exploited the affair to advance his own political agenda.” Apparently, Bloomberg thinks the title “Mayor of New York City” entitles him to police other states—Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia, for the record. We would advise him to think again.
Source; Patriot Post
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