Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee (D-Suffern) joined with 62 other state legislators in signing a letter to Senate and Assembly leadership calling for action to reduce gun violence.
The letter is a repsonse to the shootings that left 26 people dead, 20 of them children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT.
The letter calls for the passage of a plan including the following measures, all endorsed by New Yorkers Against Gun Violence and the Violence Policy Center:
- Require universal background checks on the sale of all guns
- Strengthen assault weapons ban
- Strengthen high capacity ammunition magazine ban
- Require microstamping of guns to help law enforcement solve gun crimes
- Require gun licenses to be renewed every five years
- Improve gun dealer regulations
- Regulation of ammunition sales
- Limit personal gun purchases to one a month
"Now is the time to strengthen our resolve," Jaffee said. "We in government must join together to enact stronger, sensible gun laws that will protect our communities and our children from these horrific acts of violence. There is nothing more important. We owe it to our precious children, to their families, to their teachers, to ourselves as a nation and a civilized society."
Jafeee is a member of the New York chapter of State Legislators Against Illegal Guns (SLAIG).
A copy of the letter is attached to this report.
On the same day as the Newtown incident, there was a deranged individual in China, that attacked an elementary school and cut up 23 children, some children had fingers and ears cut off. There have also been incidents of people attacking schools with hammers and axes over there. The mentally ill don't need guns to kill, they just need their sick twisted minds. China has had 9 attacks on schools since March of 2010, with 16 children killed and over 100 children wounded.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/us/legislative-handcuffs-limit-atfs-ability-to-fight-gun-crime.html?ref=nationalrifleassociation
They recognized the need of a "well regulated militia" or what we now call "The Armed Forces of the USA". But having just defeated a "well regulated militia" ei the British Navy. They realized that an armed citizenry is the only defense against a Tyranical Government. Now spin all you want semantically about what "the right of the citizens to bare arms shall NOT BE INFRINGED".
Still waiting for those links to debunk Kates/Mauser.
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=49
I doubt you will actually read any of them but here are the references. Kates Mauser apparently just make shit up to fit their ideology. Absent peer review their propaganda plays precisely to people like yourself. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1485564/pdf/cmaj00266-0071.pdf http://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Abstract/2000/12000/Firearm_Availability_and_Homicide_Rates_across_26.1.aspx http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/dranove/htm/dranove/coursepages/Mgmt%20469/guns.pdf http://home.uchicago.edu/~ludwigj/papers/JPubE_guns_2006FINAL.pdf
1st link – is based on a Telephone Survey ? 2nd link –Only offers an abstract unless you pay to view or buy it 3d link – Another Flawed study - http://johnrlott.tripod.com/2005/04/mark-duggans-more-guns-more-crime.html
Case .. http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZD1.html (hit “Ctrl F” and type “Kates”)
We can exchange Links all day long –But Here’s the bottom line – We lived in Granada Hills Ca , only a couple miles from the epicenter of the Northridge Quake. I was awake when it hit ..we lived through what many of you only watched parts of on TV…they didn’t really show you everything that was going on. But for the first 2 or 3 days we got to see “Humanity” at its best and (unfortunately) worst …people’s Homes being looted WHILE they were home, waiting in line for Water, Gang members looting, no Police- no EMS- no Power, neighbors coming by to borrow ammunition, Military on patrol. The first day …When the Gang members started looting, a Pickup Truck with 6 of them came through our area …a bunch of our neighbors got together and we tried calling LAPD …most Phones were out BUT , with my Cell I got through to Devonshire Division…they couldn’t help but told me to call Foothill Division (of Rodney King fame) The Officer told me that they were overwhelmed and we were on our own …then he told me to listen very carefully. He asked if I had the ability to defend myself (I told him yes) , he then said , Try to get a License Plate and stay out of their way , but if you have no choice , do whatever you have to and defend yourself and your Family and then call them when it’s over ---he then asked if I understood what he was saying. I understood perfectly.
The best was when several of my Liberal and previously rabid anti Gun neighbors started coming to me asking if they could borrow a shotgun or something to defend themselves with. I reminded one how he told me Guns were a Plague on Society ,should be illegal to own and how he did not “approve” of my owning and collecting them. Funny how Reality has a way of forcing even the most die-hard anti gun voters to change their opinions ..and learn how to load & change magazines. Listen..don’t take this the wrong way but , I don’t know you or your background …But you can be sure of mine, and it’s spotless. I have a NYS issued Concealed Carry Permit (and I do everyday) ..my permit is not for hunting and target. I’d be willing to bet that you have no idea how involved it is to get a Carry Permit here in NY –for YEARS I also had a FULL CARRY Permit in Massachusetts ..I was also a Federally Licensed Gun Dealer. NY & Mass don’t just hand out these permits ….the background checks are comprehensive and if there’s ANYTHING , any issue at all ..the License is denied. There’s a huge responsibility that comes with the decision to Carry . IMO..the anti gun people posting & complaining have the right to keep Guns out of their lives..it’s their choice – BUT THEY DO NOT have the right to prevent us from owning or legally carrying them, that’s our choice.
We were more worried about these newbie’s ending up with a loaded Firearm without any training or Range time. But again …..and I’ve seen it first hand , no matter what they say or post …the more rabid/vocal anti Gun activists are ALWAYS the first ones in line trying to buy a Shotgun when “reality” hits the fan and they finally understand.
The people shooting up schools are mentally ill and on drugs...THATS THE PROBLEM... put their drug pushing psyc doctors on trial..and reevaluate how we deal with mental illness in the US
Sen Diane Feistein is suggesting putting all semi-automatic firearms into the National Firearms Act of 1934 Category, and in doing so, one must pay a $200 tax stamp to register their gun into it, then you would need to have a letter from your local Chief Law Enforcement Officer, that your firearm is legal to possess in your locality, or surrender the firearm. NY State is not a State that recognizes ownership of NFA Firearms, therefore all semi-automatic firearms (rifles, shotguns, and pistols) would be illegal in NY State.
As far as the Registration -- NYC 1967 –Gun owners were told that the new Laws would not affect them , it was just for registration. Years later they took that list and started Banning & Confiscating them. Gun owners were lied to –they were forced to either turn them in to the NYPD or sell them. Here are the facts - http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/fact-sheets/2000/firearms-registration-new-york-city%60s.aspx?s=New+York+1967&st=&ps They did it again gain in California 1989 – Article - “ First Registration, Then Confiscation” By Tanya Metaksa FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, July 12, 2001 http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=23707 do your Homework
In which grade shall we teach our children how to carry a firearm? If, as you suggest, we reign in "deranged mentally ill person[s]" (I don't disagree with this suggestion), will THAT be the WHOLE remedy for decreasing the number of murders daily across our nation?
Diane Feinstein is looking to get a new "assault weapons" ban put in place that will require all semi-autos to be reclassified under the NFA. She's a sick and twisted individual.
Quote "owning a semi-automatic weapon is also a privilege " This must be a Nyack Resident original thought because, I've never seen it on any ATF memos or State Laws .....----------------------------------------------------------------- Nyack Resident 2:34 pm on Saturday, December 29, 2012 owning a semi-automatic weapon is also a privilege, not a right. "NY State is not a State that recognizes ownership of NFA Firearms, therefore all semi-automatic firearms (rifles, shotguns, and pistols) would be illegal in NY State."