Posted by
John Caile on Thursday, May 06, 2010 10:49:45 AM
No sooner had New York City's car bomber been apprehended than Mayor
Michael Bloomberg absurdly attempted to use the incident to justify his ongoing jihad against America's gun owners:
http://www.securitymanagement.com/news/close-terror-gun-gap-says-nyc-mayor-bloomberg-and-police-chief-kelly-007120#stop
Let's see if we can follow his convoluted logic - a guy shows up with a car loaded with a fertilizer
and petroleum explosive device, and the good mayor sees it as "proof" that we need more gun control. Oh, yeah - that makes perfect sense.
Now don't get me wrong - I have long warned that terrorists are likely at some point to stage multiple attacks on "soft" targets like shopping centers, using nothing more complicated than rifles, shotguns and handguns. Because even if the human casualties are modest - compared to something like 9/11 - the damage to the nations economy would be catastrophic.
But to actually believe that yet one more piece of legislative nonsense regulating the legal purchase of firearms will somehow prevent suicidal Islamic jihadists from obtaining guns is about as ludicrous as it gets.
No Federal, State, or City ordinance in America has been able to keep our own "home-grown" violent gang members from obtaining as many weapons as they want. For one simple reason - they almost never buy them legally - they steal them or buy them off the street (contrary to media myth, they do not get them from gun shows). Which is why cities like Chicago and Washington D.C. - that have the most stringent gun control laws in the nation - also have the highest levels of violence.
So while it may make for good politics to talk about "keeping guns out of the hands of terrorists" it would be utterly naive to believe that the kinds of measures proposed by Mayor Bloomberg will have any chance of stopping a group of committed jihadists from getting guns.
But, alas, anti-gun zealots like Mr. Bloomberg will never allow facts or reality to intrude on their Quixotic crusade.