Sunday, May 11, 2008

Which is it?

A paragraph from an article detailing how lawyers for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pushing for a gag order banning mention of the 2nd Amendment (Nope, no relevance here) during the trial of a Georgia gun shop that they are suing, claiming that it and similar stores are the major causes of the city's gun crimes, not the criminals themselves:

"In a recent court deposition, Mayor Bloomberg said he believed 'the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights gives you the right to keep and bear arms.' But in a recent brief to the Supreme Court, lawyers for Mr. Bloomberg argued that the amendment 'was not intended to vest armed power in citizens acting outside of any governmental military effort — either federal or state.'"

"You" seems to mean the police and military only, in the good Mayor's way of thinking. Well, you can't have it both ways, Mr. Bloomberg. That's shameless double-talk, even for a big-city politician. You're going to have to show your full anti-gun card hand sooner or later.

By the way, this trial is one result of the illegal sting operation that included the City of New York paying civilian private investigators to travel to other states to specifically try to break Federal laws concerning firearm sales, although apparently it's only illegal when the peasants do it. When a rogue city government does it, it's an "investigation", and no penalties result.

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