Looks like we’re gonna need another Big Beautiful Wall, stat.
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and his former police commissioners such as Bernard Kerik, who headed up the NYPD force from 2000 to 2001 and directed the police response to 9/11, can only watch and weep as the city they had so successfully cleaned up rapidly descends into chaos and carnage. This Nightmare in New York is brought to you courtesy of Gov. Andrew Cuomo; Mayor Bill de Blasio; and a cast of thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters, anarchists, and street thugs. The once vibrant city is turning into a virtual no-go zone of looted shops, shuttered store windows, and skyrocketing murder rates. The number of shooting victims is up 51% this year so far, and that tragic trend is accelerating. In June of this year, there were 250 shootings, as opposed to 97 in June of 2019.
New York was already reeling from the highest coronavirus death toll in the (formerly) United States, due in large part to Gov. Cuomo approving the transfer of thousands of recovering COVID-19 patients to nursing homes at the height of the pandemic. Then the rioting began, and Mayor de Blasio’s response was to shame cops and propose cutting his city’s police department budget by more than one billion dollars. (That’s one thousand million for those of you who were educated in the city’s public schools.)
The Dimwitted Duo have caused a mass exodus, with 500,000 mostly middle-class New Yorkers fleeing the city thus far and many more likely to follow. Half a million New Yorkers heading for the proverbial hills. That’s more than the entire population of Minneapolis, where all the madness started. Of course, with the Minneapolis City Council repeatedly voting to disband its police force, the entire population of the “Mini apple” may head for the hills as well.
They should all be forced—at gunpoint if necessary—to stay and enjoy the fruits of their labor. They should DAMNED sure not be permitted to scatter out and infest the more civilized and liveable parts of the country, locust-like, to then start lobbying for, voting for, and otherwise insisting upon the exact same policies that they fouled their own nests with all over again.
I would merely note that dear Mr. Giuliani has no more use for the 2nd Amendment than does Mr. DiBlasio!
True, Giuliani is far from perfect. His most redeeming quality seems to be that he is an honest man, not corrupted. That counts quite a bit in my book.
Any mayor that uses “Stop-and-Frisk” on the vibrants to “encourage” them to act civilized in the future and causes an asshole like Bloomberg to follow suit is goddam OK with me, regardless of his views on guns.
Perhaps those views were forged due to his long experience as a native New Yorker watching all the damage firearms in the wrong hands did to his city.
Think on that.
So did he actually do ANYTHING to stop guns from getting into the wrong hands? Nacho much!!!
As Fuel Filter noted, ‘stop and frisk’ was very effective at keeping guns out of the wrong hands. Which was why crime, but especially violent crime, went down dramatically during his time as Mayor.
I never wanted him for President, but as Mayor he was fine, because you’ll never get a pro-2A NYC Mayor.
His influence on Trump also seems to be in the areas where he excels, like policing and law and order, and rooting out corruption. He seems to stay away from everything outside of those strengths.
So, a Man who knows his limitations.
He probably isn’t personally as anti-2A as we may think, but that’s conjecture on my part.
Giuliani:
“If you elect Donald Trump you will preserve your Second Amendment right to bear arms. If you elect Hillary Clinton, she will appoint one judge and then two, and they will take it away from you, and a lot of your other rights.”
Sounds decently strong on the 2nd amendment.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2016/11/06/rudy-giuliani-trump-will-save-2nd-amendment-clinton-will-take-away/
The 2nd is a litmus test in many ways, but I can live with an honest Giuliani Vs a crook.
I was ahead of the curve. I’ve been saying that we need to draw the CONUS borders at the western edge of the Rockies and the Acela Corridor and shoot anything trying to escape for over ten years now.
Makes more and more sense….