(NY) post-shooting aftershocks

[tyme]

Wonderful. Every time there's a (non-accidental) murder, everyone gets uptight over accidents. "We can't have evil guns around the chiiiiiiildruhn! There might be an accident!"

http://www.cortezjournal.com/asp-bi...type=news&article_path=/news/news030726_4.htm

"No Gun Target Expanding"
July 26, 2003
By Katharhynn Heidelberg
Journal Staff Writer

A day before gunfire rang out in New York City’s council chambers, members of the Cortez City Council asked that a draft ordinance concerning the open carry of firearms in city parks be expanded to include municipal buildings.

"I would like to see the city buildings added," Mayor Cheryl Baker said Tuesday, when the proposed ordinance came up for general discussion. Public comments will be taken Aug. 12.
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"There’s some misconception about what we’re trying to do," Cortez Police Chief Roy Lane said.

"We’re not after people’s ownership of guns; we’re not after anything, we’re just asking them please, don’t take (guns) to where kids are playing and where families are gathering. That’s the whole reason behind the ordinance — we just want to avoid accidents."
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[Standing Wolf]

That’s the whole reason behind the ordinance — we just want to avoid accidents.

Cold-blooded murder isn't accidental.

 

[Sylvilagus Aquaticus]

Tyme, did you see this one from WFAA/Dallas Morning News?
Of course, John Wylie Price had to weigh in on this. For the non-Texans, JWP picketed with his supporters outside Mayor (then city commissioner)Laura Miller's house with his minions for days, complete with bullhorns and obscene, race-baiting posters. He also has a criminal history of damaging the vehicles of his political dissidents and opponents, including other city officials.




Regards,
Rabbit.

Shooting prompts City Hall security review
07/25/2003

By CHRIS HEINBAUGH / WFAA-TV


Wednesday's shootout at City Hall in New York City left a councilman dead, along with the suspect.

Both men walked into the government building without having to go through metal detectors.

Thursday, Dallas officials said the incident prompted a review of security, and the first of the new measures will go into effect next week.

Every day, hundreds of people come and go from Dallas City Hall. Some come to work, others to pay bills or renew driver's licenses. It is a building designed to be open and accessible.

"That's the feeling you want," said council member Dr. Elba Garcia. "We want people to come to City Hall. It's their public house."

Right now, only a guard sits outside the council and mayor's offices.

Normally when City Council meetings are held, council members, the mayor, and even reporters just walk right in. Only the general public must pass through metal detectors. But starting next week, the same security measures that apply to the public now apply to staff and media members as well. The same security will apply to everyone entering the offices of Mayor Laura Miller and council members.

However, not everyone thinks more security is better. Consider the Dallas County Commissioners Court, where no one attending its meetings must go through a metal detector, and practically anyone can walk right into the commissioners' offices.

"If someone is bent on carrying out an act, it does not have to occur in chambers, it does not have to occur in this building," said commissioner John Wiley Price.

Price said the problem isn't tighter security.

"In this country, we have a love affair with guns," Price said. "And until and unless we divorce that, you can have all the metal detectors in the world."

But officials at Dallas City Hall think someone might use a council meeting, where officials are assembled, and where press attention is focused, to make a deadly point.

"We have to be sure at City Hall that we have security - the most security we can have to avoid something like this," Garcia said.

Meanwhile, city officials are breathing easier over something else.

A new state law allows people with a concealed weapons permit to carry guns into government buildings. But, the law's author today assured Miller that government meetings are exempt, meaning the city can continue to ban weapons from City Council meetings.


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