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Michael Paul Williams is unhappy we succeeded:
A step backward on guns
So, it's all about the Civil War? It's all about "need" -- it's all about cop killings in NYC? It's our fault?
Wow, how desperate is Williams?
A step backward on guns
Somewhere, gun traffickers are smiling.
The gun lobby is ecstatic.
New Yorkers? Not so much.
The repeal of Virginia's one-handgun-a-month law would complete the gutting of a measure that was a documented success before state lawmakers began chipping away at it.
It's hard to understand why anyone needs to purchase more than one handgun a month. You don't hunt deer with handguns, which too often end up in the wrong hands. Perhaps repealing this law is a way for some diehards to get back at those Yankees, 150 years after the Civil War.
The decreased effectiveness of the handgun limit was self-inflicted. In 2004, lawmakers carved out exceptions for concealed weapon permit holders and persons purchasing a handgun in a private sale.
"I think the law was dumbed down a bit," said Josh Horwitz, director of the Washington-based Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, who estimates that private sales make up 40 percent of the Virginia market.
"What I really find offensive about this is that we started with something that really works," he said.
In December, a Virginia gun was linked to the fatal shooting of New York Police Officer Peter Figoski, 47, a father of four. The gun was lost by its owner here in 2009; its disappearance was never reported, Horwitz said.
According to an article in the New York Daily News, Figoski "has become the face of New York's futile fight to stop the flow of deadly guns from Virginia's gun dealers up the so-called Iron Pipeline to the city."
Perhaps the faces and gun-control records of Virginia legislators should be plastered on New York billboards.
So, it's all about the Civil War? It's all about "need" -- it's all about cop killings in NYC? It's our fault?
Wow, how desperate is Williams?