NY Gun Control legislation passes

[CajunRaven]

December set an alltime record for gun sales. January will probably beat that. The surest way to flood the market with a lot more guns is for liberals to denigrate legal gun owners and threaten gun bans.

Lots more sales are coming.

Wait for that Slappy!

I'll be one of those purchasing.

[soulflower]

No, I knew it was an excerpt. I would, however, have expected that you would object to the obvious privacy issue being written off as "a concession to the gun industry."

I don't know enough about NY's law.

Maybe it was the author showing his bias or maybe the gun industry specifically lobbied for that part of the legislation after the newspaper released the names of the gun owners...

[CajunRaven]

No, I just explained why that has zero to do with it. Why has violent crime been falling for 30 years while the legal ownership of guns continues to grow? According to conventional liberal wisdom more guns = more crime yet we can see that that is demonstrably false.

Liberal Wisdom! Mutually exclusive?

[CajunRaven]

I'm not a fan of Cuomo but he has excellent political instincts

That's what scary SF. And that applies to the idiots on either side.

[soulflower]

No, I just explained why that has zero to do with it. Why has violent crime been falling for 30 years while the legal ownership of guns continues to grow? According to conventional liberal wisdom more guns = more crime yet we can see that that is demonstrably false.

Gun sales are being primarily driven by people who own more than one gun.

Percentage-wise, the rate of gun ownership has declined or flattened out over the past decade as crime has also declined.

Perhaps the decline in crime has made fewer people want to own a gun or fewer gun owners has led to the decline in crime...

[veritas]

Gun sales are being primarily driven by people who own more than one gun.

Percentage-wise, the rate of gun ownership has declined or flattened out over the past decade as crime has also declined.

Perhaps the decline in crime has made fewer people want to own a gun or fewer gun owners has led to the decline in crime...

Or perhaps more guns has deterred criminals.

[dsummoner]

He doesn't have any chance of winning the South if he runs. The rest of the country is more progressive...

Prygryssyve is a meaningless term when it comes to underlying paradigm. Neither the so-called prygryssyves or so-called cynsyrvytyves have a problem with forcing themselves onto others by means of government. In as far as Democrats and Republicans go, Benito Cuomolini has shot his chances, in the foot, of getting the votes of those that self-classify as Democrats and are referred to as Blue Dog Democrats. The fascism of the coastal Democrats, in regards to the right to keep and bear arms, has not and does not sit well with them.

[dsummoner]

Gun sales are being primarily driven by people who own more than one gun.

Percentage-wise, the rate of gun ownership has declined or flattened out over the past decade as crime has also declined.

Perhaps the decline in crime has made fewer people want to own a gun or fewer gun owners has led to the decline in crime...

Perhaps because I wake up before the sun rises, the sun rises because I wake up.

[johnpolitics]

Cuomo get gay marriage passed and MOM decides to support it. Cuomo gets tough gun laws passed and now MOM wants to do the same. There are leaders (Cuomo) and followers (MOM).

[songfourone]

So you're arguing that I should have altered the quote?

I was accused of slander and I had two links!!! Go figure!

[The Astute Reader(tm)]

Gun sales are being primarily driven by people who own more than one gun.

So what? How does that shore up the shopworn "more guns = more crime" fallacy?

Percentage-wise, the rate of gun ownership has declined or flattened out over the past decade as crime has also declined. ...

"Captain, long range scanners have detected BS being rapidly produced on-the-fly in a nearby star system. At this rate the BS will collapse under its own mass into a Made-Up-Crap singularity before the end of this episode..."