All about guns, legislation and politics in New York
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Joe Biden is the perfect spokesman for the gun control movement: A doddering old fool regurgitating the same tired talking points about the same failed policies:
“President Biden’s topic was one of utmost importance Wednesday — crime and gun violence. But you wouldn’t know it from the way he spoke. He slurred his words. He called the ATF “the AFT.” At one point, he talked about the history of the Second Amendment and “the blood of patriots” before concluding that someone would need nuclear weapons to take down the government. If you weren’t confused, you were horrified. Biden was obviously tired, speaking in barely a monotone. He couldn’t pronounce “cognitive.” … Yet a protective circle has formed around Biden, preventing them from stating the obvious: Joe Biden, 78, looked out of it …”
BIDEN: "Those who say the blood of Patriots, you know, and all the stuff about how we’re gonna have to move against the government.”
"If you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons."pic.twitter.com/WVHUffpphP
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 23, 2021
Not one gun control advocate is going to be motivated by this.
I have said many times before and I will say again, 2A activists need to be involved in Democrat party politics especially in the primaries where turnout is low as that is the only way to knock many incumbents out of office.
The latest examples from Albany:
“… In 2013, when incumbent Albany Mayor Sheehan was first running for the job against Councilman Corey Ellis, more than 10,000 Democrats cast votes in the race. At the moment, just over 6,000 votes were cast in her primary eight years later with Faust, according to the unofficial results. More than 200 Democratic voters — more than 3% of the vote — chose a write-in candidate. Turnout can be difficult to gauge given voters in New York may retain the muscle memory of casting primary ballots in September — this is the first off-cycle primary to be held in June. But given the overwhelming Democratic enrollment in most cities, both upstate and in New York, a handful of voters relative to the overall population can determine the future course of a community …”
“Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, who ran for a third term while under indictment in a campaign finance case and under fire for her handling of a police killing, has been defeated in the Democratic primary by City Councilman Malik Evans …”
“Hours after the polls closed Tuesday evening in New York City’s primary elections, incomplete results for the District 5 City Council race on the Upper East Side showed Julie Menin holding a 10-point lead. By 11:30 p.m., Menin, the former census director and city commissioner, led the early results with 33.9 percent of the vote, trailed by Tricia Shimamura at 23.7 percent, Rebecca Lamorte at 11.7 percent and Kim Moscaritolo at 11.2 percent …”
Moscaritolo is the former Legislative Committee Chair for New Yorkers Against Gun Violence.
Tuesday’s Newsbits:
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Primary Candidates for NYC Mayor.
Openly #2A hostile Democrats:
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Primary candidates for Manhattan DA.
Openly #2A hostile Democrats:
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Openly #2A hostile incumbents in party primaries. Vote for their opponent no matter who they are.
Openly #2A hostile state legislators in party primaries for other offices. Vote for their opponent no matter who they are.
Openly #2A hostile primary candidates for various offices. Vote for their opponent no matter who they are.
Finger Lakes Daily News reports:
“The Schuyler County government has called on Governor Cuomo to veto legislation to allow civil nuisance lawsuits against gun manufacturers and dealers if a legally sold firearm is used to cause harm. Legislature Chairman Carl Blowers says the law would hurt New York’s economy, because it targets both large and small businesses that make and sell guns and accessories, especially those located upstate …”
Nice, but I don’t see that happening.
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The Daily Freeman reports:
“Two Republican state senators in the Mid-Hudson Valley joined Democrats this week in supporting two bills that sponsors say could reduce gun violence. But Sue Serino, R-Hyde Park, and Mike Martucci, R-New Hampton, voted against other gun-related measures that came before legislators, along with the rest of the region’s GOP delegation. The Legislature passed a package of anti-gun violence bills on Tuesday ranging from a ban on possession of “ghost” guns that lack serial numbers to a ban on the purchase of a weapon by anyone facing an outstanding arrest warrant for a felony or serious offense. The measures next go to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Both Serino and Martucci voted in favor of those two bills but opposed legislation allowing the New York attorney general to sue gun manufacturers in certain scenarios …”
Serino and Martucci with their room temperature IQs are too stupid to realize there’s nothing to be gained by voting for any gun control legislation. This is especially true for the bills in question S-13A and S-14A because Brooklyn Senator Jabari Brisport voted against both bills both times they came up. Clearly he isn’t concerned about any blowback for his votes so why should Serino and Martucci be?