{"id":7505,"date":"2013-02-14T10:04:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T15:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=7505"},"modified":"2013-02-14T10:04:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T15:04:55","slug":"you-can-smell-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=7505","title":{"rendered":"You can smell it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another reporter<\/a> appears to have realized that anger over Cuomo’s gun law<\/a> isn’t going to go away. \u00a0Buffalo News Urban Affairs Editor Rod Watson writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“… In a nation founded with guns to oppose government tyranny, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that shooters won’t let Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s<\/a> gun-control power play fade from the spotlight. \u00a0Tuesday’s rally in Albany and another slated for Feb. 28 prove that the issue has legs. \u00a0So does his drop in a poll<\/a> after the law was rammed through using emergency provisions to prevent debate. \u00a0Put aside for a moment the irony of the governor now saying a law passed in secret will become more popular<\/a> once people know more about it. \u00a0With other bills, that might be true. \u00a0But in this case, the more the public learns what a semiautomatic gun is \u2013 and what it isn’t \u2013 I’m betting the less likely they are to think Cuomo made a reasoned decision, rather than a political one …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s what I told the Times more than two weeks ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“… “The more people see about this, the angrier they are getting,\u201d said Jacob J. Rieper<\/a>, the vice president of legislative and political affairs for the Rifle and Pistol Associatio<\/a>n. \u00a0He 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. \u00a0“The bottom line is none of these people thought this through, and it\u2019s starting to stink,\u201d Mr. Rieper said …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes it is.<\/p>\n