New Yorkers Against Gun Violence will be in Albany today pushing for more gun control. Here’s pictures from last year’s event.
Things are not going well for them. In years past their allies in the legislature would push through about a dozen gun control bills in the Assembly and Shelly Silver would hold a press conference about it. Last year they scaled back and just went for microstamping, which came up short in the Senate and humiliated the sponsors.
This time around, microstamping bill A-1157 didn’t move out Assembly Codes despite being on yesterday’s committee agenda. That’s not to say it won’t move later on, but it is another sign NYAGV’s popularity is on the decline in Albany.
I wonder how well this was put together. NYAGV does not even have the event on their web site or even a press release. They do have a link to a vid, at the bottom of the main page, from the Colbert Nation where Colber really embarrasses Jackie Hilly by even offering her a gun. (She refuses because and said that she would never carry/have a gun because “I live my family.”
There was a press release, but it’s not on their website or Facebook group:
http://www.longislandexchange.com/press/2011/04/11/high-school-students-urge-lawmakers-to-strengthen-gun-laws/
Even the press release is not on their web site