In debate over a bill that would allow carry permit holders to carry legally in any state with "shall issue" concealed carry laws, New York Senator Charles Schumer said this:
If you walk down the street in New York ... you can have the solace of knowing that if someone has a gun on them they've gone through a rigorous police background check. After this bill, you can have no such comfort," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Sunday.
Actually, in the New York (city especially) that I've visited, if someone is carrying a gun, they are most likely a street thug, not a carry permit holder. I don't know what New York Mr. Schumer is talking about, but it's not the one the Mets, Yankees, and Bills call home!
Never mind the fact that any carry permit IS done with a rigorous police background check in any state that issues them.
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I wonder if anyone else burst out laughing when he cracked that joke?
:^) I think "lying" is probably closer to what he was actually doing, or possibly "quoting the Brady Center without checking their sources." I hope that either one becomes a dangerous proposition soon.
Either that, or an implicit assumption that if "the branch of government under whose jurisdiction you live isn't watching out for you, you're unprotected." If NEW YORK isn't running a background check on everyone who shows up in New York with a carry permit, it's just like no one doing it at all, even though Pennsylvania does. It's like the ancient pagans with their local deities, almost -- you can't trust the gods of the Assyrians to take care of you, if you're Semitic.
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