This coming from a candidate for district attorney.
He's mad because the NRA didn't like his proposal to 'encourage' people to let the police search their homes for 'illegal' firearms. "No charges would be filed" he says. So a person who wants the job of upholding the law is willing to let criminals roam free? All because he doesn't like guns? And if that gun comes back traced to a murder? Still no charges or will they just drop the 'possession' charge? That makes sense. I'm sure the parents of every 'good boy' out there will open their doors for this.
He's also upset that the NRA opposes his bill on firearm tracing. But let's look at the nuance:
trace a gun used in a crime, even if the gun wasn't left at the scene.Even if it wasn't 'left at the scene'? How would that work?
His bill would mandate that guns sold in New York include a new microstamping process that imprints a serial number on every bullet fired.Oh, right. Microstamping. So he's not calling for firearm tracing. He's calling for full registration of firearms in the state. We all know how well that's worked out for firearm owners in the past. Nevermind the facts that the SCOTUS has ruled that criminals don't have to register since that would be self-incriminating, that the technology is easily defeated and that it is nowhere near mature.
But that's just 'common sense'.
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Check out his DA campaign website:
It's time to recognize that there is something wrong with our criminal justice system when nearly one out of three African-American men can expect to spend part of their lifetime in jail or prison and when four out of five young people are re-arrested within a few years of their first offense.
Unless he's claiming that these African American men are being imprisoned unjustly, for crimes they didn't commit, how can the problem be with our criminal justice system? What's his solution--let 'em go?
And what does he mean by saying that they "can expect to spend part of their lifetime in jail or prison"? Is he implying that they have no choice in the matter of whether or not they commit crimes?
RevChuckCurrie: God, Guns & American Violence: Turning Weapons Into Ploughshares. Sermon podcast at http://tinyurl.com/pkypym .
Luke 22:36-38
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