The Staten Island Conservative’s position indicates a split in the Conservative Party leadership since the Newtown school massacre and the deadly ambush on volunteer firefighters in upstate Webster.
--- For now, NYS Conservative Chairman Mike Long is steadfast in opposing stricter gun laws.
According to the NY Post’s Carl Campanile, the “SI Beep is right on target: Cons’tive Molinaro with gov vs. guns” ( NY Post, 1/9/13
[ http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/staten_island/si_beep_is_right_on_target/.../ ]
Molinaro said he’s also joining with Mayor Bloomberg in prodding President Obama and Congress to pass tougher national gun-control laws to stem the flow of illegal arms into New York.
According to the Post report, Mike Long has said, “I oppose more gun restrictions. The gun is not the problem.... The individual is the problem.” Instead Long says he supports boosting penalties and lengthening prison time for people convicted of gun-related crimes.
He said it was outrageous that the man who killed the firefighters in Webster, NY, had been out of prison after only doing 17 years for savagely killing his grandmother with a hammer. Long put his position this way, “Why was that guy out of prison? That’s what the governor should be focusing on.”
Instead of pushing other gun-control laws, New York State Senate Republicans have proposed a tougher crackdown against gun-related crimes, which is exactly the position that Conservative Party Leader Long backs.
Well Gale, If its in the New York Post its gotta be true.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it conservative to be against banning assault weapons?
ReplyDeleteActually it is quite radical and Jeffersonian to have a well-armed citizenry that is set to rise up against a tyrannical government.
DeleteThose conservative types, who aren't equal parts libertarian, tend to be law and order type authoritarians that fear most kinds of popular uprisings.