Senior Goldman Sachs people load up on guns?
“I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to the local police for a permit to buy a pistol. The banker had told this friend of mine that senior Goldman people have loaded up on firearms and are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank.
Note in NYC, the permit is to buy a pistol not to carry one. But, being in NYC, there’s more:
I called Goldman Sachs spokesman Lucas van Praag to ask whether it’s true that Goldman partners feel they need handguns to protect themselves from the angry proletariat. He didn’t call me back. The New York Police Department has told me that “as a preliminary matter” it believes some of the bankers I inquired about do have pistol permits. The NYPD also said it will be a while before it can name names.
Unlike here in the free states, they have to spend an inordinate amount of money; beg for police permission; and get references from people. Could take months. That and, apparently, the NYPD is willing to tell everyone who calls and asks that you have a gun permit.
And continuing:
Common sense tells you a handgun is probably not even all that useful.
Commons sense tell me Alice is only useful as an idiot.
December 1st, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Idiot Indeed!
“Concealed gun permits are almost impossible for ordinary citizens to obtain in New York or nearby states.”
Assuming she’s simply referring to NYC, Pennsylvania isn’t Near NYC?
If she’s talking about New York STATE, well Vermont carry permits are IMPOSSIBLE to acquire…as the state sees no use for them and allows all lawful citizens to carry at will, Mass Permits can be rough, but Western Mass is pretty friendly to gun owners, as well as a bunch of other towns in the East…like Mine.
NH isn’t too far either….
Seems the anti-gun bigots are consistently dim. makes perfect sense when you think about it…
December 1st, 2009 at 12:38 pm
“No, talk of Goldman and guns plays right into the way Wall- Streeters like to think of themselves. Even those who were bailed out believe they are tough, macho Clint Eastwoods of the financial frontier, protecting the fistful of dollars in one hand with the Glock in the other. The last thing they want is to be so reasonably paid that the peasants have no interest in lynching them.”
oh And Arnold’s Law to boot!
http://www.bullshido.org/Arnold%27s_Law
heh, at least the Anti’s are consistent!
December 1st, 2009 at 12:42 pm
She’s right, handguns aren’t that useful. Rifles and shotguns are what you really want, the handgun is just to get you to something bigger.
December 1st, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Maybe the state of NY will act with the same alacrity on the gun permit applications that the Federal government did in dispensing swine flu shots to the Goldman brass several weeks before making them available to the public.
What would or could we do without the investment banking community?
December 1st, 2009 at 1:18 pm
If Alice is an idiot, let’s not forget who her ultimate boss is at Bloomberg – Mayor Michael “NoGuns, NoTransFat, NoTobacco” Bloomberg.
December 1st, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Darn, Phelps beat me to it. Common sense does tell me that one handgun isn’t going to do much good. That’s why you carry a BUG and have a good AR or AK handy.
Depending on the mob, it might either get you out of there, or just buy you a few minutes before they overwhelm you, but it’s better than going down swinging a stapler. Or not swinging at all, as most would do.
December 1st, 2009 at 3:23 pm
If Mayor Bloomberg thinks owning and carrying guns is bad, then is he leading by example??
December 1st, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Go ask Alice. I think she’ll know. Ah, the 60s.
December 1st, 2009 at 4:09 pm
The licensing bureau of the NYPD exists to find reasons to deny permits. Literally. If you have a typo, a misplaced punctuation mark, a “Y” instead of a “yes,” any reason at all, you will be denied. If you moved during the six months it takes to get a permit, you will be judged “unstable” and denied. If you show up to the interview with a five-o’clock shadow, you will be denied. That’s why you have to hire a lawyer to fill out the forms for you. It is a hellish place to try to legally own guns.
December 1st, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I understood that all pistol permits in NYC, even premises permits, are “carry” permits, albeit with varying conditions on carry?
December 1st, 2009 at 4:35 pm
but i think carry usually means ‘can carry to a range’, unless you’re rich and famous.
December 1st, 2009 at 4:45 pm
I don’t see anyone welcoming the new gun owners into the ranks. Aren’t we about “sharing the sport”, as they say?
December 1st, 2009 at 4:56 pm
BTW, those whom are sneeringly referred to as “rich and famous” more than likely have given zillions to support various conservative causes and candidates over the years, which would tend to benefit the pro-gun agenda wouldn’t it? Class resentment is a terrible, terrible thing, almost . . . socialist.
December 1st, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Yeah, the ultra conservative Robert Dinero, Howard Stern, Don Imus, Tommy Mottola, etc. I’m sure they do.
And what class resentment? If it’s instituted as a matter of policy it is discrimination.
December 1st, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Wow – lookit all that money Tommy Mottola gave progun Republican Fox analyst former attorney general Jeanine Pirro:
link
December 1st, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Hand guns are very usefull, I use mine to turn on the lights, turn off the lights, open a beer, change the tv channel….
December 1st, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Pirro pro-gun? That’s a good one.
December 1st, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Hmm. If handguns aren’t all that useful, why do all the cops have them? What does that say about the police and common sense?
December 1st, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Dave Kopel in the National Review in 2006 gave Pirro a C and her opponent Andrew Cuomo an F- on gun issues. I understand that in times of ideological purity that a C may not be a passing grade.
December 1st, 2009 at 5:56 pm
A C is quite generous and does not make her a ‘progun Republican’.
December 1st, 2009 at 7:27 pm
If handguns aren’t that useful, then there’s no reason to have any restrictions on them whatsoever, AND there’s no reason to have knee-jerk policy reactions to the Ft. Hood terrorist, either.
As far as there being different rules for law enforcement, the wealthy, the famous, and the powerful, we’re surprised exactly *why*?
December 2nd, 2009 at 1:15 am
workinwifdakids–
“Well, there ya go, using logic again…”
December 2nd, 2009 at 9:32 am
RML, when the government treats some law abiding citizens differently than it treats most other law abiding citizens, the government is forming a class structure according to it’s whims.
This is one of the core problem concepts with socialism.
But I see you are out to make a point, not discuss the details of the problem.
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Ax yourself – if the New York legislature can knock down gay marriage, why can’t they reform or end the state permit requirement? Some enterprising cat could have attached such a provision to the vote this week and there you go.
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Lloyd B. and Tony Fontana do look alike.
December 6th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Does RML stand for really mentally limited? Hey, just axin.