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It Begins: New York State Passes First Gun Control Law Since Sandy Hook

Baldur Wrote: Jan 15, 2013 8:54 PM

"Common sense can win," Cuomo said. "You can overpower the extremists with intelligence and with reason and with common sense." Lets parse this: common sense can win. I hope so because Cuomo has no common sense. "extremists": meaning law abiding taxpaying voters who own guns. "intelligence and reason": always ignored by liberals who cannot use intelligence and common sense in emotional arguments and responses. Intelligence, reason and common sense are absent from the liberal's world view. In a battle of wits, they are unarmed.

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It Begins: New York State Passes First Gun Control Law Since Sandy Hook

Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) has just passed into law (in the words of the Associated Press) “the nation’s toughest gun restrictions” since the deadly massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School:

Jumping out ahead of Washington, New York state enacted the nation's toughest gun restrictions Tuesday and the first since the Connecticut school massacre, including an expanded assault-weapon ban and background checks for buying ammunition.

Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the measure into law less than an hour after it won final passage in the Legislature, with supporters hailing it as a model for the nation and gun-rights activists condemning it...

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