You can smell it

Another reporter appears to have realized that anger over Cuomo’s gun law isn’t going to go away.  Buffalo News Urban Affairs Editor Rod Watson writes:

“… In a nation founded with guns to oppose government tyranny, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that shooters won’t let Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s gun-control power play fade from the spotlight.  Tuesday’s rally in Albany and another slated for Feb. 28 prove that the issue has legs.  So does his drop in a poll after the law was rammed through using emergency provisions to prevent debate.  Put aside for a moment the irony of the governor now saying a law passed in secret will become more popular once people know more about it.  With other bills, that might be true.  But in this case, the more the public learns what a semiautomatic gun is – and what it isn’t – I’m betting the less likely they are to think Cuomo made a reasoned decision, rather than a political one …”

That’s what I told the Times more than two weeks ago:

“… “The more people see about this, the angrier they are getting,” said Jacob J. Rieper, the vice president of legislative and political affairs for the Rifle and Pistol Association.  He recounted sympathetic phone calls from as far away as Nebraska, where a man pledged to collect donations at his gun club to support a legal challenge to the law, and angry messages from New York gun owners who were eager to campaign against the legislators who voted for the measure.  “The bottom line is none of these people thought this through, and it’s starting to stink,” Mr. Rieper said …”

Yes it is.