{"id":19885,"date":"2019-08-20T16:20:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T20:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=19885"},"modified":"2019-08-20T16:21:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T20:21:39","slug":"ithaca-mayor-joins-on-localgovs4gunsafety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=19885","title":{"rendered":"Ithaca Mayor joins #localgovs4gunsafety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofithaca.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick<\/a> is the first local to jump on this &#8220;new&#8221; bandwaggon:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m furious. And tired of waiting for the feds to act on gun violence. They won&#39;t.<\/p>\n<p>So my friends and I are working together to pressure gun makers.<\/p>\n<p>If they want our business, they need to demonstrate a commitment to keeping guns out of the wrong hands. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0qn4BjeKbc\">pic.twitter.com\/0qn4BjeKbc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Svante Thee Mayor (@SvanteMyrick) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SvanteMyrick\/status\/1158391363106459649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is unlikely to succeed for two reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It was done before and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/smith-and-wesson-almost-went-out-of-business-trying-to-do-the-right-thing-2013-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nearly bankrupted Smith &amp; Wesson<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The market share of even large cities can dry up and blow away with negligible impact on the firearms and ammunition manufactures.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D19885&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=19885\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=19885\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=19885\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick is the first local to jump on this &#8220;new&#8221; bandwaggon: I&#39;m furious. And tired of waiting for the feds to act on gun violence. They won&#39;t. So my friends and I are working together to pressure gun makers. 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