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These Miami politicians never stop crying for more gun control.And Timoney is probably the most anti gun Chief in America.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/420087.html
Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff called for the reinstatement of a federal assault-weapons ban.
Posted on Fri, Feb. 15, 2008
By CHARLES RABIN
[email protected]
As the widow and father of gunned-down Miami police officer James Walker stood at his side Thursday, Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff called on Congress to bring back an assault-weapons ban that ended four years ago.
Detective Walker -- who was off duty in the early hours of Jan. 8 and on his way to visit his wife -- was shot dead by an AK-47 as he sat behind the wheel of his car in an alley in the 1700 block of South Glades Drive in North Miami Beach.
Andrew James Rolle, 20, was arrested and charged with first-degree and attempted murder. Police believe he was trying to kill someone else in a dispute over a stolen gun.
In addition to Walker, three Miami-Dade officers have been shot -- one of them killed -- by assault weapons in the past year. ''Our police are outgunned and outmanned,'' Sarnoff said, with Miami Police Chief John Timoney and his command staff looking on. 'This is [criminals'] weapon of choice.''
Sarnoff is pushing a three-point plan: He's urging citizens to send their Congressional leaders a signed letter his office drafted calling for the ban, he wants fellow commissioners to pass a resolution urging state and federal governments to pass a ban, and he wants more stringent sentences for those found guilty of crimes while using assault weapons.
The commissioner also said he would sit down with the city attorney to try to draft legislation that would make the sale of assault weapons illegal in Miami.
OTHER DEATH
Almost two months before Walker's death, Miami-Dade County commissioners urged their lobbyists to pressure Congress to reinstitute the ban that Congress let expire in 2004.
They were spurred by the September death of Miami-Dade police Officer Jose Somohano in South Miami-Dade at the hands of Shawn LaBeet's MAK-90.
Around the time the county moved on the ban, the head of the largest local police union also came out for a weapons ban, as did an influential state legislator who said he would push for the state to enact a similar ban.
All spoke of the high number of rounds the weapons can fire and their power.
''Their place is on the battlefield, not in the city of Miami,'' Sarnoff said of assault weapons.
Timoney, who heads up an international agency of police chiefs and sheriffs, and has spoken publicly about an assault-weapons ban, rattled off a series of numbers that showed an increase in deaths caused by assault weapons since 2004, and an increase in the recovery of such weapons.
`TERRIBLY WRONG'
The chief said about 80 percent of Miami's homicides are now caused by guns, ''and when you start to get to 80 percent, there's an indication something is terribly wrong with local legislation,'' he said.
He also said his department has purchased 30 AR-15s -- a move he said he would rather not have had to make -- to combat assault weapons on the streets.
Asked if banning such weapons would go against the Second Amendment to the Constitution, Timoney didn't hesitate.
''This has nothing to do with the Second Amendment. There is freedom of the press -- but we have libel laws,'' Timoney said. ``You can craft a bill that still gives people the right to bear arms.''
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/420087.html
Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff called for the reinstatement of a federal assault-weapons ban.
Posted on Fri, Feb. 15, 2008
By CHARLES RABIN
[email protected]
As the widow and father of gunned-down Miami police officer James Walker stood at his side Thursday, Miami City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff called on Congress to bring back an assault-weapons ban that ended four years ago.
Detective Walker -- who was off duty in the early hours of Jan. 8 and on his way to visit his wife -- was shot dead by an AK-47 as he sat behind the wheel of his car in an alley in the 1700 block of South Glades Drive in North Miami Beach.
Andrew James Rolle, 20, was arrested and charged with first-degree and attempted murder. Police believe he was trying to kill someone else in a dispute over a stolen gun.
In addition to Walker, three Miami-Dade officers have been shot -- one of them killed -- by assault weapons in the past year. ''Our police are outgunned and outmanned,'' Sarnoff said, with Miami Police Chief John Timoney and his command staff looking on. 'This is [criminals'] weapon of choice.''
Sarnoff is pushing a three-point plan: He's urging citizens to send their Congressional leaders a signed letter his office drafted calling for the ban, he wants fellow commissioners to pass a resolution urging state and federal governments to pass a ban, and he wants more stringent sentences for those found guilty of crimes while using assault weapons.
The commissioner also said he would sit down with the city attorney to try to draft legislation that would make the sale of assault weapons illegal in Miami.
OTHER DEATH
Almost two months before Walker's death, Miami-Dade County commissioners urged their lobbyists to pressure Congress to reinstitute the ban that Congress let expire in 2004.
They were spurred by the September death of Miami-Dade police Officer Jose Somohano in South Miami-Dade at the hands of Shawn LaBeet's MAK-90.
Around the time the county moved on the ban, the head of the largest local police union also came out for a weapons ban, as did an influential state legislator who said he would push for the state to enact a similar ban.
All spoke of the high number of rounds the weapons can fire and their power.
''Their place is on the battlefield, not in the city of Miami,'' Sarnoff said of assault weapons.
Timoney, who heads up an international agency of police chiefs and sheriffs, and has spoken publicly about an assault-weapons ban, rattled off a series of numbers that showed an increase in deaths caused by assault weapons since 2004, and an increase in the recovery of such weapons.
`TERRIBLY WRONG'
The chief said about 80 percent of Miami's homicides are now caused by guns, ''and when you start to get to 80 percent, there's an indication something is terribly wrong with local legislation,'' he said.
He also said his department has purchased 30 AR-15s -- a move he said he would rather not have had to make -- to combat assault weapons on the streets.
Asked if banning such weapons would go against the Second Amendment to the Constitution, Timoney didn't hesitate.
''This has nothing to do with the Second Amendment. There is freedom of the press -- but we have libel laws,'' Timoney said. ``You can craft a bill that still gives people the right to bear arms.''
Up north, Mlps Mn north, they had the worst chief in the history of LE history. This darwin candidate from the 80's arrived from NYC and ridiculed any notion, ridiculed I say, any notion of right to carry while at the same time ridiculing any of us rural folk that suggested there was anything like a gang problem developing in Mlps
that might actually threaten the common folk. This man spewed his east coast rhetoric and spread his east coast propaganda and for years it seemed left the citizenry to fend for itself.
. Thanks Mr Anthony Bouza, your legacy shines on...
