Et tu, McElroy?
Even our local paper is falling for the lies:
The permitting process is clearly flawed. A study last month by the Commercial Appeal in Memphis found as many as 70 Shelby County residents were issued permits despite criminal histories, including arrests for robbery, assault and domestic violence.
Now we learn that Jiverly Wong, the Binghampton shooter, was also a qualified handgun owner. He mailed a copy of his gun permit to a television station before going on his killing spree.
This was in between gratuitous references to Columbine. Like the hacks in the AP, Jack is conflating a permit to carry (like we have in TN) with a permit required to own (like they have in NY but do not require in TN).
April 14th, 2009 at 10:18 am
This guy mailed a copy of his permit to a news organization before going on a shooting rampage?
As crazy as it sounds…could this guy have been an anti-gun whacko trying to “prove a point”? You know…sort of like the law abiding Virginian who recently spent $5,000 buying guns at a Virginia gun show and then lamented the fact that he had the freedom to do so?
I guess if he was crazy enough to murder a bunch of innocent, disarmed people…I guess it isn’t out of the realm of possibility to think he may have been crazy enough to do it as an anti-gun propaganda stunt.
April 14th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
“So we become a society of armed camps, a perpetual war zone with a balance of power between the good guys and the bad.”
Markie Marxist sez: “My Marxist amigo, Jack McElroy, is correct! It’s an awful situation for our Marxist/warrior/hero/criminals to be kept in check by the good guys. We need to disarm the private, law-abiding citizens’ camp ASAP! We don’t want our Marxist/warrior/hero/criminals bogged down in an arms race; we want them to achieve peace through superior firepower!”
April 14th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
“as many as 70 Shelby County residents were issued permits despite criminal histories, including arrests for robbery, assault and domestic violence”
So were they convicted of a crime or just arrested for it?
April 14th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
McElroy is an Ivory Tower idiot.
NY state, however requires a permit to own a handgun or handgun ammunition.
Same permit also serves as a carry permit.
They can carry in bars, just not NYC.
April 15th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
They keep trying to give me reasons to cancel my subscription.