New York moves for tougher gun laws after failed bombing

[Treetop Flyer]

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=7423609&rss=rss-wabc-article-7423609


These geniuses are using the failed Times Square bombing to go after guns. Perhaps it didn't occur to them that no guns were used and that it was already illegal to bomb Times Square.

 

[JollyGood]

Sounds like Bloomberg is using this to further push regulation in New York City, which already has very strict policies/penalties when it comes to carrying handguns.

Just ask this phuck-up....

 

[JollyGood]

Just looking at another article regarding this incident. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/05/eveningnews/main6463507.shtml

Look at the picture used by CBS. Glad they have the whole creepy, facebook-like with traffic background picture there for reference. That thing really adds to the story.

 

[Rocketman]

to add words

They should just pass a law making it illegal to set off a VBED in NY. That should take care of the problem.....Oh wait that may already be illegal. WTF?

Edited to add......Maybe it's a good thing to keep people on the watch list from buying guns at gun shops. I don't know that I really have a problem with that but I don't think it will keep them from getting guns.

 

[Jim123]

These geniuses are using the failed Times Square bombing to go after guns. Perhaps it didn't occur to them that no guns were used and that it was already illegal to bomb Times Square.

Maybe they should just pass a law making it illegal to set off a VBED in NY. That should take care of the problem.....Oh wait that may already be illegal. WTF?

I'm sure the next news story will quote Mr. Shahzad as saying that while he knew it was illegal to blow up your truck in public and that would have never tried it if only the gun control laws were just a bit tougher... wait a second, I just came back to reality and don't really know what I was thinking just now.

Part of me would love to see the surveillance camera footage of him making his way through theatrical security administration at the airport.

 

[Fog]

An obvious leading candidate for the 2010 Darwin Award. Dumbest & most irrelevant move I've heard of since ignoring Israeli airport-screening techniques after 9-11.

 

[exhelodrvr]

Be careful, next they'll be banning SUVs.

 

[Bevo16]

It's impossible to pack as many explosives in a Prius as you can put in an SUV. The clear answer is to ban SUV's and any car with a large trunk capacity. Sure, that will take virtually all of the NYC cab fleet off the road. If all of the lazy asses would just ride a bike or walk, they can solve the terrorism, pollution, and obesity problem all at once.

 

[jtmedli]

It's impossible to pack as many explosives in a Prius as you can put in an SUV. The clear answer is to ban SUV's and any car with a large trunk capacity. Sure, that will take virtually all of the NYC cab fleet off the road. If all of the lazy asses would just ride a bike or walk, they can solve the terrorism, pollution, and obesity problem all at once.

If we could do it nationwide then we could get like 25% closer that green economy all the politicians were talking about too...these guys might be onto something!! :icon_help

 

[ryan1234]

After SUVs are banned, then airliners will probably be banned as well... since they've had a history of flying themselves into towers.

I just had to move up to NY temporarily for a job... not only are there a bunch of gun/weapon laws but there are several other weird laws - the state speed limit is 55mph on all highways (not that you'd be going much faster) ... after a few laps around the LIE, you'll see why they don't let these people carry guns.

 

[A4sForever]

" Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly headed to Capitol Hill Wednesday to push for tougher gun laws in the wake of the failed Times Square bombing attempt.."

Soooooooo ... it was really our lax gun law loopholes that caused the bombing attempt ???

I thought the Mayor's original hypothesis regarding the failed bomb attack went something like this: "Home-grown, maybe a mentally deranged person or somebody with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill or something...."

WSJ: Questions Only Bloomberg Is Asking

It just makes you wonder how someone who is dumber than whale-shit-on-the-bottom-of-the-deep-blue-sea can become wealthy and powerful ...

Only in America, huh ??? Is this a GREAT country, or what ??

 

[HueyCobra8151]

Until we ban backpacks, our society will never be safe from backpack-bombs!!!! Won't somebody think of the children!!!!

 

[BACONATOR]

An obvious leading candidate for the 2010 Darwin Award. Dumbest & most irrelevant move I've heard of since ignoring Israeli airport-screening techniques after 9-11.

Not only that, but BEYOND that: the people we SHOULD be screening, or at least looking a lot more closely at (Young arab speaking males 18-40) are not even allowed to be looked at wrong for fear of a lawsuit. This PC-paradigm shift is not only obnoxious but dangerous. It's not as if the rest of the world is as PC as America. For anyone who has been to Japan, how many times have you heard "NO Gaijin!" and gotten the big crossed arms? How long would that last in the US without a lawsuit?

That doesn't mean I think every muslim should be strip-searched at the airport, but I wouldn't feel bad to have the scholastic-achieving TSA utter the sentence: "sorry Mr. Abdul Husseini, but your one-way ticket to Blow-Up-Istan with NO checked or carry-on baggage seems a little suspect and we want to talk to you".

Edit- on a less (MORE?) sarcastic note: I am COMPLETELY willing to risk being blown up in flight if I don't have to remove my shoes and/or other articles of clothing at the airport. God knows if that's what the bar has been raised to, the terrorists who REALLY have the determination, will come up with something that gets past that check. Fuck my shoes and belt. What's next? UNDIES??? Stop undressing me and get me the fuck through security!

On a last note.... why can't folks who have been investigated (FAAAAR more deeply than the TSA ever could) to get a security clearance be given a free pass through security? If 10s of thousands of dollars and months of background investigation have deemed me enough of a non-threat to give me access to information even YOU (the moron TSA agent) aren't privy to, why the fuck are YOU the authority on deeming me safe for flight? Ok, on the off chance the guy with the security clearance determines he has no barriers to pass through and bombs a plane? I'm willing to take that chance.

 

[A4sForever]

.... why can't folks who have been investigated (FAAAAR more deeply than the TSA ever could) to get a security clearance be given a free pass through security?...

Imagine how the pilots who are flyin' the plane feel -- while in uniform and removing their shoes/belts/covers, getting frisked, and having their bags torn apart?? In front of the passengers they are going to fly??

... it's utterly absurd and provides ZERO security -- in case anyone @ TSA cared to think about it for a minute or two ... but then, that would require someone @ TSA to actually think.

 

[picklesuit]

The first guy that boars with a grenade in his pooper is really going to screw things up for us...