[Desertdog]

If a person is stupid enough to pull a look-a-like gun on a cop, he/she does so at their own risk? It is called, personal responsibility!
Let's start banning guns by taking the real guns away from the mayor's bodyguards.


BLOOMY'S 'FUN' GUN
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/21071.htm
By DAVID SEIFMAN

MAKING A POINT: Hizzoner brandishes a real-looking toy gun at a Union Settlement press conference yesterday to show the dilemma cops face.


March 17, 2004 -- Mayor Bloomberg appeared to be packin' heat - a very realistic-looking gun - at a press conference yesterday about the dangers of toy weapons.
"Let me show you something," the mayor announced suddenly, stepping away from the podium to reveal a "Luger" tucked in his waist.

"Anybody want to stop and guess whether I've got a gun on?" he asked the audience at the Union Settlement on East 104th Street.

"Let me tell you, this was bought yesterday . . . If you think this doesn't look to a police officer who wants to go home to his family like a real gun, you don't know what happens on the streets."

The weapon certainly looked real. It even felt real, with the heft of the genuine article.

That's why, Bloomberg said, the city is continuing a crackdown on stores that sell illegal toy guns made to resemble real ones.

Consumer Affairs Commissioner Gretchen Dykstra said 31 stores have been cited over the past 17 months, including Jack's 99-cent Store, which recently agreed to pay a $50,000 fine for stocking almost 2,000 dark-colored toy guns.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said cops have shot people with toy guns 14 times since 1998.

"Keep in mind, outlawing real guns is a problem in this country with the NRA," the mayor concluded.

"How any parent or caring human being looking at the carnage on the streets of this country and not want to outlaw guns I can't quite understand."

[Standing Wolf]

How any parent or caring human being looking at the carnage on the streets of this country and not want to outlaw guns I can't quite understand.

He's not only a completely untrustworthy R.I.N.O, but an utter nitwit. Half the point of keeping and bearing arms is to protect oneself against the predators.

[M1911Owner]

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said cops have shot people with toy guns 14 times since 1998.The cops are using toy guns to shoot people? :confused: :confused: :rolleyes:

[CZ 75 BD]

is this clown up for re-election in 05?

[atek3]

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said cops have shot people with toy guns 14 times since 1998.

great wording

atek3

[The_Antibubba]

Next up-Prison sentences for making the gun shape with thumb and forefinger. :rolleyes:

[dinosaur]

Post that pic in a new thread with a "Caption This" theme. I'd do it myself but I'm stupid!:what: :banghead: It should get a couple of hundred responses.:D

[Grey54956]

That is not a Luger. That man is clearly an idiot.

[Diggler]

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said cops have shot people with toy guns 14 times since 1998. Keep shooting them. Eventually the public will get the message that you shouldn't pull a look-alike gun on a cop like that.

[HankB]

Next up-Prison sentences for making the gun shape with thumb and forefinger. You think you're being funny, but consider this: schoolchildren are being suspended and expelled for doing this very thing.

As for Bloomberg . . . maybe they're putting something in the water there. I remember a former mayor - Dinkins - called for stronger gun laws in response to a fatal stabbing.

The inmates really ARE running the asylum. :cuss: :fire: :banghead: :mad:

[BenW]

How any parent or caring human being looking at the carnage on the streets of this country and not want to outlaw guns I can't quite understand.
Perhaps he should take a gander outside the confines of NYC before he makes statements for the rest of the country....

[Partisan Ranger]

Now if he'll just ban making a gun sign with your thumb and index finger, New Yorkers will be safe once and for all. :rolleyes:

[carpettbaggerr]

How many cops were shot with toy guns? I'm guessing it wasn't many.

[Pilgrim]

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said cops have shot people with toy guns 14 times since 1998.

Sounds like an easy kill to me. What are the cops bitching about?

Pilgrim

[Nightfall]

...Jack's 99-cent Store, which recently agreed to pay a $50,000 fine for stocking almost 2,000 dark-colored toy guns.
How the hell can I even respond to something like this? A dollar store paying 50k for having toy guns that are too dark?! :banghead: :cuss: :fire:
"Keep in mind, outlawing real guns is a problem in this country with the NRA," the mayor concluded.
Thank goodness too, or else blissininny nitwits like you would have an even easier time disarming the simple peasant folk. :mad:
"How any parent or caring human being looking at the carnage on the streets of this country and not want to outlaw guns I can't quite understand."
What you don't understand could fill the oceans twice over. You may not understand my rights, but you will respect them, one way or another.

*sigh* I was in a good mood after reading the progress thread (http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=71661).

[RobW]

The burning desire to rule and control other people is insatiable. They really don't want to fight crime or protect "our chiiiildren", they just want to oppress "citizens" into peasantry.