Baltimore may join Bloomberg’s NYC gun lawsuit
Posted by Jeff Quinton on September 19, 2007John Fritze reports in today’s Baltimore Sun that Mayor Sheila Dixon met with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg Tuesday to discuss that city’s straw purchase lawsuit against gun dealers as a way to get illegal guns off the street. 240 cities have reportedly joined Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition but no other city has actually filed suit.
Baltimore’s high homicide rate this year along with statistics cited in the article that show a larger number of violent crimes involving gun use per capita than the Big Apple are given as reasons for the city considering joining the legal action against gun dealers.
Bloomberg’s tactics have been called into question in the past. In some cases, private investigators working on the NY lawsuit were used in sting operations against gun dealers, many of them out of state. Say Uncle reports that several of these stings in support of the civil litigation actually jeopardized criminal investigations already underway and that the ATF was investigating the sting operations. PoliPundit and Pajamas Media report on the controversy in Virginia over the Bloomberg lawsuits and how they led to the “Bloomberg Gun Giveaway” in that state.
Today’s article points out that Dixon has also gotten approval for GunStat, a program to track individuals involved in gun crimes much like all the metrics introduced under the reign of Bloomberg’s predecessor Rudy Giuliani and copied by Dixon’s predecessor, current Gov. Martin O’Malley.
The NRA’s response in The Sun:
Andrew Arulanandam, a spokesman with the National Rifle Association, said cities already have a tool to deal with crimes in which guns are used - that is, to prosecute the criminals rather than the gun dealers who might or might not be aware that the weapons they sell end up in the hands of criminals.
“These politicians ought to quit holding media events and media availabilities and stop talking about reducing crime and start working with federal and state and local prosecutors in making sure that gun crimes are prosecuted unequivocally, 100 percent of the time,” he said.
Comment by JW in HDG
Prosecuting criminals whom use guns during a crime - Brilliant! and a Common Sense approach, but, alas, common sense is pretty much a dead thing in the Free state.
Better to go after the law-abiding citizens whom do follow the laws, than approach the law-less, whom could give a whit. Less dangerous, and, it’s another problem solving step closer to the ultimate goal of total control. Then, its all Yellow Brick Roads, Barry Manalow muzak, and the Utopia we all deserve and strive for.
Maybe we can beat them all into plows and make tomatoes cheaper…
You can’t make this stuff up…
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Baltimore may join Bloomberg’s NYC gun lawsuit
John Fritze reports in today’s Baltimore Sun that Mayor Sheila Dixon met with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg Tuesday to discuss that city’s straw purchase lawsuit against gun dealers as a way to get illegal guns off the street….
Comment by ScottVanPeltStyle.com
Somethings got to give, short of creating Hamsterdam.
Comment by AngryNYker.com
Well, yet another reason I’m glad to have (3 weeks and counting) moved out of NYC after 40 years. Sanity has long since decided New York CITY offers barren soil for its progeny. At least, now somewhat removed to a nearby, but safe distance, I can laugh as I comment about the madness that continues unabated back in the Big Apple. Bloomberg’s a sad excuse for the chief executive of a once proud NYC, what with his perpetual nanny-statism at the forefront of his agenda.
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Why can’t they understand that guns stop crime more than they “cause” crime. Guns prevent 2,000,000 crimes per year. All gun crime combined is about 400,000. Do the math — more guns, less crime. It’s just a fact.
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