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Nation's mayors press for new gun laws on Capitol Hill
Chief Policy Advisor to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Chairman of Mayors Against Illegal Guns John Feinblatt (C) speaks during a news conference January 16, 2013 in Washington, DC.
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Mayors from cities across the U.S. are meeting in Washington this week, and gun violence is on their agenda. Since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, a group of mayors has become one of the loudest voices in favor of new gun laws.
More than 800 mayors belong to Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The coalition's stated goal is "protecting the rights of Americans to own guns, while fighting to keep criminals from possessing guns illegally."
"For them, it's not abstract," says John Feinblatt, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's chief policy advisor. "For federal officials, it often is too abstract."
This week, many mayors have been on Capitol Hill, and Feinblatt says they plan on coming back back. "They will be saying, 'Why shouldn't we make our country safer? Can't we respect the Second Amendment, and at the same time, have sensible gun laws?'"
According to Lee Drutman, a senior fellow with the Sunlight Foundation, on paper, at least, the group is outmatched.
"The NRA completely dwarfs what the gun control advocates are spending," he says.
But since the shooting in Newtown, Conn., 111 new mayors have signed on.
It appears to me we should join the current hysteria and suggest the evidence shows that all registered Democrats should be confiscated.
We know who they are - they're registered!
Why is it that those who steal guns, who then go and kill movie goers and children in school have never been a conservative NRA member?
Ft Hood - Registered Democrat – Muslim
Columbine - Too young to vote; both families were registered Democrats and progressive liberals
Virginia Tech - Wrote hate mail to President Bush and to his staff - Registered Democrat
Colorado Theater - Registered Democrat; staff worker on the Obama campaign; Occupy Wall Street participant; progressive liberal
Connecticut School Shooter - Registered Democrat; hated Christians
Unabomber - Registered Democrat and inspired by Al Gore's Book Earth in a Balance
Timothy McVey - Oklahoma City Bombing raised Democrat and pro-Union
Common thread is that all of these shooters were progressive liberal Democrats
Instead of registering and banning firearms possibly we should Register and ban progressive liberal Democrats
