Menino, Bloomberg Announce Gun Summit

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How about a "Locking up gun CRIMINALS summit", perhaps? Oh, no, that'd actually solve the problem... :barf: So now, look out, the Mumbles and Bonehead Grabber Tour, coming to a community near you!

Menino, Bloomberg announce gun summit

By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced today that he and New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will meet with mayors from more than a dozen other cities next week to discuss working together to prevent gun violence.

Mayors from Philadelphia, Dallas, Miami, Washington D.C., Providence, Seattle, and Trenton, N.J. are also expected to attend the meeting next Tuesday at Gracie Mansion in New York.

Menino, who reached out to Bloomberg in January after hearing him talk about gun violence in his inaugural address, has said he and Bloomberg would form a panel and tour the country asking other mayors to join them in crafting and lobbying for federal legislation to help cities and towns address the issue.

The number of homicides in Boston reached a 10-year high last year. The number of fatal and nonfatal shootings through April 6 this year was 99, up from 57 for the same period last year.
 
They gotta a real who's who of the gungrabbing mayors there.

These guys can't solve the gun violence problem because they have no concept of the source of it.

Clearly the only people that will be effected by this new legislation will be the law-abiding. Oh and all the new potential victims it will create.
 
Leftist extremist so-called "gun control" is an awful lot easier to advocate when you're a mayor with your own corps of heavily armed bodyguards.

What the nation really needs is leftist extremist control. Maybe we could send them to communist China for a few decades to see how much they really like what they're advocating.
 
will be interesting to see what kind of reaction we get to this in an election year.


"How long? not long, because what you reap is what you sow"
 
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I read about this from a NYSRPA alert earlier this morning. It's interesting to look over who's attending this "summit":

Mayor Laura Miller, Dallas, Texas
Mayor John Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mayor Tom Barrett, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mayor Anthony Williams, Washington, DC
Mayor Greg Nickels, Seattle, Washington
Mayor David Cicilline, Providence, Rhode Island
Mayor Eddie Perez, Hartford, Connecticut
Mayor Douglas Palmer, Trenton, New Jersey
Mayor Jerramiah Healy, Jersey City, New Jersey
Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo, New York
Mayor Robert Duffy, Rochester, New York

None of those mayors surprise except for Laura Miller. I just can't believe the mayor of Dallas, Texas would involve herself in this.
 
good, i hope they stay there permanently. Less gun grabbing trash in the free states.
 
Laura Miller is a far left liberal, and the city of Dallas is not far behind her. More and more of the cities of Texas are falling to the illogic of the far left. I'm thinking it is about time to move to New Mexico or Montana.
 
Mongo, I tried looking for mayoral candidate NRA ratings, but couldn't find them (only found governor, state legislature, etc). I would assume attendance at Bloomberg's "summit" would indicate, and hopefully contribute to, a poor NRA rating.

[EDIT]: Me so stupid! I thought you were referring to grades, you were referring to D=Democrat, LOL. Yes, I bet they're all "D"s in that sense.
 
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Mayor Laura Miller, Dallas, Texas
Mayor John Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mayor Tom Barrett, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mayor Anthony Williams, Washington, DC
Mayor Greg Nickels, Seattle, Washington
Mayor David Cicilline, Providence, Rhode Island
Mayor Eddie Perez, Hartford, Connecticut
Mayor Douglas Palmer, Trenton, New Jersey
Mayor Jerramiah Healy, Jersey City, New Jersey
Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo, New York
Mayor Robert Duffy, Rochester, New York
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Bloomberg and Menino are gathering together a cabal of communistnazi Progressive Social Democrats, for photo-ops from the gushing, sycophanitc communistnazi dominated media.

L.W.
 
They should never gather together in one place. If building were to collapse, think about the setback to the coming utopia.

David
 
Hmmm.... sounds like: "our policies have failed and made things alot worse for the citizens we represent, so now we're blaming it on everyone else and nagging them into making matching law in the hope that our own numbers wont look as bad!"
 
Just for the heck of it, here's a position paper from my '04 run for congress:

The Right to Bear Arms is a Civil Right. It is as much a civil right as the right to vote or the right to trial by jury. Attempts to infringe on this right damage ALL our rights, since the methods used to undermine the 2nd Amendment can be used against all other Amendments.

Further, the bearing of arms by responsible citizens is not the problem – in fact, in state after state, liberalized concealed carry laws have resulted in reduced violent crime. The right to bear arms is therefore a solution, not a problem.

That said, we must recognize that some people will use weapons for criminal purposes. This paper sets forth a concept for reasonable gun control, based on three principles:

 Targeting. The purpose of gun control is to prevent violence. Violent acts are committed by only a small fraction of the population. The biggest payoff therefore comes in targeting anti-violence legislation on those who commit violent acts, not on applying broad-brush restrictions to everyone.

 Incapacitation. Experience has shown that incapacitation (through incarceration) reduces the number of crimes committed by violent felons over their criminal careers.

 Enforcement. Many attempts at controlling violence have failed in the past due to lack of enforcement. There are many reasons for this, from simple non-feasance of officials to structural defects that reward non-enforcement.

We target the violent criminal through two laws;

1. Possession of a firearm in the commission of a violent crime.

2. Possession of a firearm by a previously convicted violent criminal

We must carefully word these laws to ensure we don’t target the wrong people – we’re not after kids who hunt squirrels out of season. We do this by making the "gun crime" dependent on another crime – a violent crime, such as murder, armed robbery, rape, and so on.

We incapacitate the violent criminal through mandatory sentencing. Although politically incorrect, mandatory sentencing is proven to work in incapacitating criminals. In this case the sentence is 10 years, mandatory, and consecutive with any other sentence. And additional 10 years, mandatory, and consecutive, is added for each subsequent offense.

A holdup of a local 7-11, for example, would net the criminal 5 years on the state, and he would typically serve two. But before being released, he would serve an additional 10 years for using a firearm in a violent crime.

If he did it again after release, this time he would get 20 years for use of a firearm in a violent crime, second offense, and 10 years for possession of a firearm by a previously-convicted violent criminal, for a total of 30 years. A third stickup would net fifty years.

We get enforcement by reserving prosecution of these to a specialized office in the Justice Department. They would prosecute ONLY these two crimes. If they fail to prosecute, they go out of business. If they prosecute vigorously, they will build up a backlog of work, and according to the natural law that governs bureaucracies, will get more funding, more personnel, and more promotions.

They cannot plea bargain away anything – because they have no jurisdiction over any other crimes and nothing to gain from a plea bargain. They cannot be persuaded not to prosecute, because that would go against their interests.

They can be counted on to be vigilant of crimes committed in the various states, because state prosecution for the basic crime will facilitate federal prosecution of the firearms charges.

And finally, they can be given jurisdiction over one other crime – accessory to the first two crimes – so they can prosecute local officials who, knowing of crimes that fall under their jurisdiction, fail to inform them. Any police officer or prosecuting attorney who knows of, or who reasonably should know of a violation of these two laws, and who fails to charge the suspect, or forward charges for prosecution, shall receive the same penalty as the criminal.
 
Mayors from Philadelphia, Dallas, Miami, Washington D.C., Providence, Seattle, and Trenton, N.J. are also expected to attend the meeting next Tuesday at Gracie Mansion in New York.
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Laura Miller IS a lefty, but she is not usually stupid. Mayors in Dallas have tried before to do things like ban gun shows -- they have always been slapped down. And, Texas has full state pre-emption, so it is not like she could really do anything in Dallas anyway. So I don't understand her motivation for going to this shindig. Maybe she thinks she can just promote some more federal money out of this.

I think I will e-mail this link to the local talk show host that has her on his show every Thursday -- maybe he can ask her ***????
 
Elect Democrats to Congress next year and they'll get their legislation.

I believe all listed are Dems so you have been warned. :mad:
 
Interesting. I e-mailed D. Ankarlo, the talk show host on a local radio station that has a morning show. He has a regular 10 - 15 minute spot with Laura Miller each Thursday morning. I e-mailed him the information yesterday - he may have already had it, but he announced on his show this morning that he would be asking Miller about it.

Guess what -- she failed to show up. Wonder why?:D
 
Mayor Laura Miller, Dallas, Texas
Mayor John Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mayor Tom Barrett, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mayor Anthony Williams, Washington, DC
Mayor Greg Nickels, Seattle, Washington
Mayor David Cicilline, Providence, Rhode Island
Mayor Eddie Perez, Hartford, Connecticut
Mayor Douglas Palmer, Trenton, New Jersey
Mayor Jerramiah Healy, Jersey City, New Jersey
Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo, New York
Mayor Robert Duffy, Rochester, New York

It's the Mayors From Cities I'd Never Want To Live In Tour, 2006!

That's with or without gun control, although Seattle is OK to visit. I've been to all those except Milwaukee.

jmm
 
Mayor Tom Barrett, Milwaukee, Wisconsin


Maybe the NRA should move their convention to Waukesha if Barrett dislikes firearms so much. :barf:
 
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