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Hey, if you want to live in a place with what you call sensible, but sensible people call draconian, gun laws, try Mexico. Registration, restrictions on caliber, licensing, the whole nine yards. Of course, for some reason those dang cartel guys and Zetas ignore those laws and use their drug money to buy all kinds of goodies from their "revolutionary" neighbors further south, not to mention the heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, hand grenades, mortars and RPGs that they buy or steal from the Mexican army, plus their supply of guns from the special ed department of the BATFE.
Then all you have to worry about is masked men kicking in your door in the night, kidnapping you (and you can't even fight back because Mexico is a gun controllers paradise), torturing you to death and sewing your face onto a soccer ball because you spoke out against them. Seriously-Mexico is a shining example of the gun control laws you so favor, mike. A place where the common citizen has no second amendment rights, where the only armed individuals are the crooks and the cops, who may be crooks and cartel pawns anyhow. Maybe head for Nuevo Laredo and ask the average citizen there if they're happy with Mexico's gun laws.
That "poor mayor" is just like you in that he has no respect for the Bill of Rights and somehow thinks that disarming the law abiding folks will by some magical transformation get the criminal element to suddenly obey the law. Not only is he taking a big steaming crap on the US Constitution, he's wiping his ass with his own state's preemption clause in their state constitution. I hope he gets impeached and then run out of town on a rail.
Pretty sure most swearing in of public office includes phrasing to the effect of "I swear to uphold and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic", and it would appear that the mayor broke his oath of office. Or does the word of an anti-rights proponent mean nothing? Wait, what am I saying-if an office holder breaks that oath, then of course his word means nothing.
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