Safer streets!
"Mayor Frank Jackson said each gun taken off the streets makes the city safer."
Look, you may not want to admit this, but he's right: getting guns off the streets *does* make cities safer, and not just cities, but highways and even rural bypasses.
Case in point: in the early 90s, driving south after a vacation on Cape Cod, a tractor trailer suffered a blow-out along a crowded stretch of I-95 just as I was passing it; I was unlucky enough to hit some of the debris from his tire (or perhaps a piece of someone else's jetsam that had caused his blowout in the first place), and lost a tire to it. Saw it shoot out in front of me, had not time to avoid. Amazing but true: the Saab 900 I was driving not only kept driving for the little while it took to safely pull right onto the shoulder, but did so with aplomb. With three passengers (plus me driving), we *did not know* that the tire was reduced to shreds; we thought it might have picked up a piece of debris and was dragging it around, making a "funny noise." Oh, no. There was no longer anything to call a tire there.
What if (and this is why I'm supporting the mayor of Cleveland) instead of random road trash it had been an AK, or even a "Saturday Night Special," that I'd rolled over, instead? The results would probably have been nearly as bad: *any* gun on the street is bad news for drivers, even though as torture testing for many brands (Glock, Sig, Springfield, CZ) has shown, it might not be so bad for the guns.
However, it would be fitting, the next time a Cleveland street is so littered with guns as to present more than a passing danger simply by existing, that a call be placed on sites such as this one, so that good citizens can relieve the city's taxpayers of the burden of getting all those guns off the street.
timothy
. (I am not anti leo, but I do believe that happens)
