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NY: Cop's slaying spotlights challenges of gun control
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"The handgun used to fatally wound Albany Police Lt. John Finn last December presents a lesson in the complexity -- and perhaps the futility -- of New York's gun control laws."
"Keshon Everett, who has since pleaded guilty to murder, was on federal probation for a felony drug conviction when he shot Finn three times on Dec. 23. He used a gun purchased in Ohio more than a decade ago."
"Conventional wisdom is that New York's laws were designed in part to keep guns out of the hands of felons, but statistics show criminals in New York still get guns by the thousands -- many of which, like Everett's AP-9 pistol, are bought new in other states." [emphasis added]... -------
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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