Schumer's Gun Registry or Maybe It's Bloomberg's

SayUncle linked this in his blog. The usual desire for a gun registry.

At a Manhattan news conference, Schumer (D-N.Y.), said a current law approved as an amendment to a spending bill that restricts the sharing of gun tracing data should be rolled back.

"The fundamental problem is almost every gun used in a crime does not come from New York, so without a national database we can't do very much," Schumer said. "In New York, if a gun is stolen or if a gun is used in a crime, they have very good records but many, 90 percent of the guns, come from out of state."

He said police can only "trace certain guns after a crime is committed" and called for traces on all reported stolen guns.

Why would you trace a gun before a crime is committed? Isn't that gun a legal object before a crime? I can see a gun registry of guns that are reported stolen. That would track the start of the crime usage and may assist in tracking illegal gun use. But having a gun registry before a crime is just a list of guns that the government can use in seizing them.

Of course, Schumer wasn't the only NY moron to pipe up on topic.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg used his radio address Sunday to call for tougher laws in the wake of Stewart's death. He said national and state laws need to be toughened.

"Until Congress gets serious about shutting down the flow of illegal guns, it is only a matter of time before another tragedy occurs," Bloomberg said.

Wonder what he means? Here's what he meant.

The National Rifle Association was in Mayor Bloomberg's cross hairs yesterday as he blasted the group for putting guns ahead of the lives of cops and children.

"Fundamentally, if you want to solve the problem [of gun violence] it's up to Congress, and Congress keeps getting rolled by the NRA," the mayor said during his weekly WABC radio show.

"This is plain and simple, the NRA versus the lives of our children and our police officers," he declared.

Yep, Put the police and children ahead of allowing the rest of the public to protect themselves and their children when the police aren't around to save the day.