"Let me find the gun, where'd I put the ammunition, where'd i put the key?"- Bloomberg
My revolver is in a holster on the night stand. My ammunition is in the revolver. The key to my gun cabinet is secured in. well, a secure place.
"Somebody's banging on your door and says, I'm going to come in and kill you...And this guy's got the gun out...You're better off not having a gun."
Locally home/business invasion murderers were armed with gun, knife or baseball bat, home invasion burglars who didn't have a chance to kill were armed with screwdriver, superior brute force, etc. (How come Bloomberg's burglars all have guns?) It does not take a gun to put a reasonable person in fear of imminent death or greivous bodily harm justifying use of a gun in self defense. Most self-defense against burglary around here is chase-off through brandishment-only, followed by detention at gun point for arrest by responding officer, occasionally a shot fired (miss or warning) and recently one serious but nonfatal wounding. We did have two double murders of people in their homes, involving drugs, where the victims had guns inaccessible. It's a mixed bag, perhaps, but several successful defenses overall.
Defenders should have a choice whether to have agun or not. Bloomberg would want the defenders serving 3.5 years in Sing Sing.
I smell yet another New York bashing thread.
People resent patriarchal plutocratic New York (as an impersonal abstract) bashing everyone else in its arrogance.
New York gun control advocates have been trying to push for a federally imposed national Sullivan Act for decades.
http://www.thegunzone.com/rkba/rkba-25.html
H. L. Mencken, "The Uplifters Try It Again", Baltimore Sun, 30 Nov 1925.
Madison Avenue advertising executive Carl Bakal in
No Right to Bear Arms claimed a ban on civilian guns was constitutional because the Second Amendment protected only state militias, disregarding any argument that the constitutions of several states guarantee their citizens a right to keep and bear arms, and if the Second Amendment was only about states, the language would have been "power and authority of the state" rather than "right of the people" shall not be infringed.
Don't take it personal, the resentment is mostly toward the Tim Sullivans, Chuck Schumers, Carl Bakals and Mike Bloomergs.