Month: July 2013

A national leader on an unpopular issue

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The Governor is unhappy with Congress:

“Disappointed critics blasted bipartisan steps to expand background checks for gun buyers as falling short of the great leap expected in the anguished days after Newtown … “It is unbelievable that this Congress is going to fundementally fail to act on a societal scourge,” Cuomo said during a Wednesday radio appearance.  “This is a Congress that is captive of the extremism and there is no clearer proof of that than this,” Cuomo said. “I think it is a damning commentary on this Congress.” …”

The only thing he is upset about is the colossal miscalculation he made with the SAFE Act.

He wanted New York to be the first state to pass new gun control laws.  He thought he could exploit Newtown for personal political gain and use SAFE as a springboard to launch a ’16 presidential campaign.  What he got instead was a huge drop in popularity, his so-called women’s agenda tanking in the legislature and his name dropping off the radar of top tier potential Democrat candidates.

Cuomo thought that by championing gun control he would be seen as a national leader.  Well, he is.  Cuomo a national leader on an unpopular fringe issue.  That’s instant karma.

Protesting Terry Gibson

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Court finds fees are ok

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The 2nd Circuit has rejected the NYSRPA/SAF lawsuit against the ridiculous fees New York City charges for firearms licenses.

Here is a link to the decision.

Social media tells only half the story

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Huffington Post has an interesting story on their site, “The Real Reason One Side Seems Louder in the Debate About Gun Violence,”

“… The fact that a large number of “grassroots” gun control organizations have suddenly sprung into existence doesn’t necessarily mean that the country is more or less supportive of gun restrictions versus gun rights than it was twenty years ago.  There’s simply no way to compare the noise levels from one communication environment to the other.  What we can compare is the volume of pro-gun versus anti-gun sentiment through an analysis of social media to get some idea of which side might be outshouting the other … The Facebook connections made by gun people are so much higher than the anti-gun Facebook connections that we appear to be playing in different arenas … Guns are a lot more important to people who own them than to people who don’t … An organization called Moms Rising recently brought five groups together on their blog to issue statements about gun violence, including the Children’s Defense Fund … Together the Facebook pages of these five groups total slightly more than 100,000 supporters and this number probably represents numerous duplicates.  The NRA is just shy of 2.5 million.  That’s a joke, and not a funny joke …”

Considering the crap HuffPo is known for publishing this is a halfway decent analysis.  What the author fails to really address is the level of commitment.  It takes no effort to simply like a page or follow a feed.  Our side follows through by acting upon what they read on social media sites, either by contacting their elected officials, writing letters to the editor, making donations or deciding who to vote for.  Antigunners don’t do any of that.  Author Mike Weisser acknowledges that “… in the age of digital communication it doesn’t take much to secure a presence in the public debate …”  This is true.  Weisser now just needs to go the extra step and admit the fraudulent nature of the gun control movement.

What about Cuomo in 2016?

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From Politico, “What if Hillary Clinton passes on 2016?“:

“For Democrats, there is no fallback: It’s Hillary Clinton or probably a long bout of depression ahead of 2016 …”

Really?  But what about Andrew Cuomo?  He supports gun control and women.

“… there is no obvious replacement.  And the party would be looking at a mad scramble to fill the Clinton void … Another senior Democrat agreed, saying, “There’s Hillary, and then there’s, like, Plan K. There is no B or C or G or whatever.”  Such assessments wouldn’t sit well with Democrats who are looking at 2016 as the understudies to Clinton — Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Vice President Joe Biden, to name a few …”

Hahahahaha!  They didn’t even mention him.

Things were looking real good for him this time last year, with poll numbers in the low 70s.  Then he decided to exploit tragedy and push gun control.  The result:  His approval ratings have plunged, his so-called women’s agenda crashed and burned, and now he’s dropped off the list of top tier Democrat presidential contenders for 2016.

New York is Open for Business

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Rick Karlan @ Times Union picked up on the widely reported story of Kahr moving out of Rockland because of the SAFE Act.

What did Governor Cuomo’s think about this?

“… When asked if he feared other gun manufacturers might follow suit, Cuomo said, he thought the story sounded kind of, well, fishy.  “I understand what they said.  I don’t know what the truth is. … It sounds kind of funny to me that a company was responding to how legislation is passed,” he said …”

You mean legislation that affects products the company makes?  He finds it difficult to believe that a company would move because of something as trivial as that?

State response to SAFE lawsuit

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The Attorney General’s response to the SAFE lawsuit is now available on the NYSRPA website.  At 93 pages long it basically rehashes the same arguments the antigunners have been making for years and can be summed up thusly: SAFE does not infringe upon 2A rights and the case should be dismissed.

Raquel Okyay goes into some more detail in her Human Events article, “Cuomo strikes back at gun rights lawsuit.“