All about guns, legislation and politics in New York
Texas Congressman Louis Gohmert announced that he will challenge John Boehner for House Speaker in the new Congress. Florida Congressman Ted Yoho offered up his name as well, although it seems a half-hearted effort and more of just his way of expressing disapproval over Boehner’s leadership.
I don’t know much about Gohmert, but Boehner is a wimp and it is time for him to go.
Some gun excerpts from Gov. Cuomo’s second inaugural address:
“… we made New York safer by passing sensible gun control … After Sandy Hook when we saw the massacre and we saw the children killed and we said, enough is enough with this lunacy of guns, and you needed a big state to pass sensible gun control who did it? The State of New York did it. We did it first. That is who we are and that is what we come from …”
Um, no, we’re not actually safer:
“The number of shooting victims has skyrocketed across the city this year — up 43 percent in just the last month — while fewer guns are coming off the streets, NYPD statistics reveal … In the last month alone, 129 people were shot, according to the latest CompStat figures, or 43.3 percent more than for the same period last year. Since January, there has been an overall 13.2 percent increase in shooting victims, while 10.2 percent fewer guns have been recovered compared to 2013 …”