via Politicker
After the third police shooting in recent weeks, the mayor had this to say.
“The three shooters have at least one thing in common and that is that they possessed their guns illegally, and that is true for nearly every shooting that occurs in our city,” Mayor Bloomberg said. “As long as federal laws allow guns to flow onto our streets, criminals will be able to get them and police officers will be in danger.”The mayors of Newark, New Jersey and Chicago, Illinois could say the same thing: " they possessed their guns illegally, and that is true for nearly every shooting that occurs in our city." But, not the mayors of New Orleans, St. Louis or Seattle. You know why? Because the gun laws in New York and Newark and Chicago work. In those other places, not only are there frequent criminal shootings of illegally owned guns, but there are also frequent shootings by CCW permit holders and other legal gun owners, domestic shootings for instance, the so-called castle-doctrine shootings which are really criminal.
By adopting similarly strict standards in all the states, say by federal law, not only would the gun flow be mainly eliminated, but the misdeeds of the supposed law abiding gun owners would be diminished as well.
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