A new low for even for NYC

[onlycafe]

Originally Posted by VINMAN

How much worse can it get.? After all, I had to get a background check to buy a Daisy Red Ryder here in Jersey.

unbelievable!
what is this world coming to? does that make a kid getting caught with firecrackers a terrorist?

[onewhippedpuppy]

Sadly this is a case of "you reap what you sow". NY residents elect anti-gun politicians who start with banning things like those terrible deadly baby killing assault weapons and the residents applaud, thanks for keeping us safe! Then they move into banning higher capacity magazines, some of the residents start contemplating why their garden variety handgun must be turned in to the state because it is now illegal. Then they eliminate concealed carry, then they institute significant background checks and waiting periods on all devices that shoot a projectile, then they institute significant taxes on ammunition, then they start....... Pretty soon the laws are such that gun ownership is a difficult and cumbersome task if not impossible. This is how the slippery slope starts, and why many gun advocates are against ANY additional regulation. You give an inch, they take a mile, and pretty soon kids are being arrested for toy guns. It's death by 1000 cuts. Lunacy....

[on2wheels52]

I think the approach of the gun control people has shifted to "guns (and things that look like guns) are evil and no sane person would want to posess a gun (or a thing that looks like a gun). Make sure all the kids know it.
Jim

[widgeon13]

We're raising a generation of wusses

[Rick V]

We are allowing people outside of the household to raise us.

[mikeesik]

Originally Posted by Mike80911

A college student in NYC has been arrested for possessing and possibly selling Air Soft guns. The local media is reporting that he had "a large cache of weapons in his dorm room". They have even gone so far as to compare him to the Boston bombing lunatics. When will the media stop spreading fear about gun ownership. The kid was not a terrorist he was just a kid and turning him into a criminal for possessing a toy gun is simply insane. Maybe we should all refuse to watch the "news" until they start behaving and reporting things responsibly and stop trying to spread fear and panic. They interviewed other students at the school who said that it was very scary to think he was living so close to them. I can't wait to retire and leave this city for good.
Police: NYU Student With Arsenal Of Imitation Assault Weapons Arrested « CBS New York

Wonderfully stated.

[Don Ro]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

Sadly this is a case of "you reap what you sow". NY residents elect anti-gun politicians who start with banning things like those terrible deadly baby killing assault weapons and the residents applaud, thanks for keeping us safe! Then they move into banning higher capacity magazines, some of the residents start contemplating why their garden variety handgun must be turned in to the state because it is now illegal. Then they eliminate concealed carry, then they institute significant background checks and waiting periods on all devices that shoot a projectile, then they institute significant taxes on ammunition, then they start....... Pretty soon the laws are such that gun ownership is a difficult and cumbersome task if not impossible. This is how the slippery slope starts, and why many gun advocates are against ANY additional regulation. You give an inch, they take a mile, and pretty soon kids are being arrested for toy guns. It's death by 1000 cuts. Lunacy....

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Wonderfully stated.

[DanielDudley]

Originally Posted by on2wheels52

I think the approach of the gun control people has shifted to "guns (and things that look like guns) are evil and no sane person would want to posess a gun (or a thing that looks like a gun). Make sure all the kids know it.
Jim

No, I think that it is relatively easy for a Policeman to get confused by what is a real gun and what is a toy, when you are playing with them in a crowded public area. Point a toy gun at the wrong person on the wrong day, and you are probably going to get shot.

It happens, as well as robberies carried out with imitation weapons.

Yet another reason why we should all be whipped up into a frenzy at every moment... But then I thought you guys were all for state's rights... IIRC the Supreme Court recently upheld New York gun laws, and you know there is a conservative majority there.

[legion]

Originally Posted by DanielDudley

IIRC the Supreme Court recently upheld New York gun laws, and you know there is a conservative majority there.

You recall incorrectly. The Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to NY gun laws. That is much different than upholding them. It means no decision has been rendered, and they could chose to take up the issue later.