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Originally Posted by major liability At least I already live in New York - nothing new for me, just the same old total lack of respect for the citizen from our officials. Sometimes I think the legislation in this state is geared solely around the needs of NYC residents. NYC is only half the state and it's in a tiny little area. I wish it'd break off like Hong Kong so it could pass all the European laws it wanted without bothering anyone else in NY. |
Thats because NYC is almost 1/2 of the entire state population, so obviously they have a large say in state affairs. But I agree with the rest of what you are saying.
The NRA loves to say let people who want to have guns have them. But it refuses to agree with the opposite statement, let those communities who DON'T want to have guns in their communities have the the right to ban them.
Its the people who elect the politicians who pass such laws. I think the voters of DC, NYC, and elsewhere were very clear: they don't want guns within city limits. There is no great popular demand to allow handguns by NYC residents, if there was handguns would be legal.
But groups like the NRA who are not even residents and how have no idea of the added stresses in living in a metropolis of 8 Million People insist on shoving guns down everybodies throat, whether they want them or not.
Let the voters on both sides of the issue make the decision in their areas, not some paranoid DC special interest group.