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NYC findings on gun shows; ST suggestion

Thursday, October 8th, 2009 at 5:46 am  
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched a sting operation on gun shows and it came back with disturbing results which we should have expected all along : Gun owners would not care who they sell their guns to if they could not be caught. What this means is that there are a lot of crazy people out there that could get their hands on guns when they are not supposed to.

Firstly, I think that this mentality is not only open to the gun industry alone. It happens everywhere all the time. If a seller could sell liquor to underage kids and get away with it, they would. If a seller could sell drugs without being caught, they would. It is human nature to supply the demand, be it legal or illegal.

What this sting does though is that it exposed a loophole in guns legislation where people at private gun sales are not required to have background checks. If a hardcore criminal or even a terrorist wanted to get guns, they can just go to one of these gun shows and obtain it. That could end up with guns in wrong hands and body bags to be filled up.

It is also of my opinion that there should be extremely stiff punishment to all gun dealers that do not do a background check. I feel that should a person who was not supposed to get a gun, used the gun to murder someone else, the gun dealer should be charged with involuntary manslaughter. I feel that it is because of the gross negligence of the gun dealer that lead to the victim being dead, hence the involuntary manslaughter.

I know that there would be people who think that this is a step too far. “If death is a direct result of the omission of one to perform a duty, the person guilty of such omission is chargeable with manslaughter; but if such omission or duty was wilful or malicious the crime is murder.” Even though causing death was not the intent of the gun dealer, it was his or her failure of duty that led to a person being dead.

I do not think that we should take these people lightly. I have once drawn criticism for suggesting that the death penalty should be applied to Drinking Under Influence offenders regardless whether someone died as a result of their actions. Though I have since mellowed, I still think that DUI offenders are getting away with it too easily. I equate DUI offenders with these irresponsible gun owners that sell guns without a background check. Both should suffer the consequences of involuntary manslaughter should a death result from their negligences.

Sticking to the topic of negligences, why is New York City doing this and not Chicago, where there are lots of kids are shot dead? I like Mayor Bloomberg who happens to be Independent, not because he is. It stuns me to compare the competency of Mayor Bloomberg and Mayor Richard Daley. But doesn’t it seem that those politicians with an (I) behind their names are the ones that are really doing their jobs?

Lastly, President Obama’s administration must be criticized for not doing enough on gun regulation. The Democrats have just collapsed again and again on this front. They have allowed guns to be in parks as part of a credit card bill, allowed assault weapons on trains when it was banned under the President Bush administration, and I think would crumble soon to allow assault weapons in airplanes.

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Terror Alert : ST Proven right!

Friday, September 18th, 2009 at 8:06 pm  
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What a stunner! Wasn’t it days ago that we mentioned the ridiculousness of having a gun on board trains? Just hours ago, an Afghan national is being suspected of plotting to bomb trains in Colorado and New York. But it was what we said about fighting terror that the Feds have repeated the alarm for.

Najibullah Zazi is being accused of plotting to bomb train stations in New York. According to the Feds, he had diagrams that show how to make bombs were found on the computer and he visited New York recently. They claim that this is the real deal.

I really do not think that the FBI would be so stupid to arrest Zazi based on this alone. E.g. if we go to the NRA website and visited New York, does that mean we are planning to commit mass murder? There must be something that they have yet to tell the media, or else they would be looking very stupid before the cameras. And I still trust the FBI.

Zazi’s lawyer too made a very good point. If Mr Zazi was the gentleman that is really being under investigation, wouldn’t he be locked up and not released? Why is he out free instead of being arrested? This just reiterates the point I made before that there is something that the FBI knows that we do not or else this would make them look really stupid.

But what is important was what we mentioned in our articles a days ago. The way to stop terror on trains is the following 3 steps :

1)Good intelligence: Should the FBI be right here, this entire plot would have been averted with good intelligence work. Should they be right, and I believe that they are, the FBIs would be the real heroes here.

2)Screening: Weapons, ammunitions and ordinance should not be tolerated in trains. I really doubt that there would be any way of stopping Zazi today should he have not been caught by the FBI and had the desire to bomb Amtrak. We need screening in train stations. We need them fast, or lives can be lost.

3)Training. I have said before that President Obama’s administration was right in trying to dumping what I called the “train squad.” This is because, I really doubt Close Quarters Battle or Urban Ops is the way to prevent someone from bombing trains. What is needed is that every rail employee be trained to be vigilant to detect give away signs of terrorism.

Should this be the real deal, I hope Americans do not start to fear again. I hope that they have faith in the Feds instead. Because if we let ourselves be scared because of this kind of threats the terrorists would have already won. Remember they are terror-ists, they want you to be scared.

That being said, I do not think that we as Americans should be complacent either. We should know that the moment we let our guard down, the terrorists would be coming for us. We should not complain either when there is checking of our bags and backpacks. I would not mind longer lines rather than people dying.

Lastly, we here at ST would like to thank the FBI, regardless of this threat being real, for helping keep out country safe. They are the real unsung heroes in America. Thank you guys, we appreciate it!

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