Sick of Anti-Gun Media Bias

I just will never understand a liberal. Michael Daly attended 16 grammar schools and still can't make an informed opinion backed by fact.

By MICHAEL DALY NY DAILY NEWS COLUMNIST

Tuesday, April 17th 2007, 9:22 AM

Still love those guns, Virginia?

Ready to admit that it's madness for any psycho to be able to saunter into a gun shop and acquire firepower capable of killing 32 innocents?

Feel different now that the blood is the blood of so many of your most promising young people?

You've been shrugging for decades as illegal guns from your state plague our city, killing and maiming and terrorizing New Yorkers by the thousands, at one point comprising 47% of the guns our cops recovered.

You even yukked it up with a "Bloomberg Gun GiveAway" raffle at a gun shop that sold at least 22 guns used in crimes in New York.

You went into a tizzy when Mayor Bloomberg sued some of your gun shops after undercover agents made fraudulent "straw purchases."

Michael, I still love my guns. My guns, and my neighbors' guns, are largely responsible for our low crime rate. How's your crime rate up there in the Big Rotten Apple? It's irrefutable that places that restrict legal gun ownership have high incidences of violent crime. Virginia + guns = low crime. NYC - guns = high crime. (It's very academic. Even someone that had to go to 16 grammar schools can figure that out.)

By the way, just because a gun sold in Virginia was used by a criminal in NYC doesn't mean that the shop in Virginia sold it to the criminal. There are any number of ways that a criminal could have gotten that firearm, most of them illegally. And don't be too quick to hand accolades to Mike Bloomberg. You said it yourself - Bloomberg sent undercover agents to fraudulently purchase guns. That makes Bloomberg a criminal. Conspiracy to commit fraud, especially across state lines is a federal offense. He's lucky the DOJ has no spine or he'd be sitting in a federal pen where he belongs.

Your idea of gun control has been to pass a law making it illegal for undercover agents like those Bloomberg sent South to make such buys.

Virginia had to pass a law because the Feds don't have the balls to enforce their own code of laws.

You seemed to think it was no big deal when an aide to your junior U.S. senator got caught carrying an automatic pistol into the Capitol, you having voted Sen. James Webb into office as an avowed opponent of gun control.

It was semi-auto. You knuckleheads either don't know the difference or think the masses don't know the difference. You think most people are stupid or you're too stupid to make the distinction. I believe it's a little of both. Besides, other than DC's unconstitutional ban on firearms, both Webb and his aide were within their legal rights. Funny how we've all forgotten about Ted Kennedy and his hired bodyguards getting stopped for all their firepower in DC. It's illegal for anyone in Kennedy's employ to possess a firearm at any time because of his status as a convicted felon.

You had a big debate this year about whether Virginia Tech was wrong to discipline a student who was caught carrying a licensed pistol to class.

See my earlier paragraph to understand why this student being armed might have averted the massacre. VT has been designated a "Gun-Free" zone. Might as well advertise to every degenerate out there that it's a shooting gallery. One armed student could have prevented or at least lessened the death toll. Until we stop picking places and designating them "Gun-Free", the VT massacre will be repeated. "Gun-Free" zones only protect criminals because the rules only apply to those that abide by them.

Never mind that a Virginia gun license is not half as hard to get as a driving license.

More people are killed, maimed, or injured by automobiles each year than by firearms. It should be even harder to get a driver's license than it is. Have you been on the roads lately? I think, at a minimum, every one that desires a driver's license should have to pass an IQ test. And stop administering the written test in pictorial form - if you can't read at a high school level, you don't belong behind the wheel of a potential death machine like an automobile.

Never mind that there are so many guns lying around that an escaped jailbird managed to get hold of one and kill a cop and a security guard at the edge of the Virginia Tech campus at the start of the school year.

Michael, are you advocating disarming law enforcement? The gun that Morva used was one that he took from a deputy that was guarding him. Morva attacked the deputy, stole his gun and then proceeded to start his own mini killing spree. What kind of fucking journalist are you, Daly? Do you do any research at all?

Yesterday, the shooting was in the heart of the campus, which suddenly felt like the bleeding heart of the whole nation.

We certainly have enough parents in New York who know all too well what the families of Virginia Tech will be suffering.

We also have cause anew to give thanks for the bravery of Auxiliary Police Officers Eugene Marshalik and Nicholas Pekearo, who died stopping a crazed gunman in Greenwich Village in March.

You got the bleeding heart part right. That must be why there's no blood getting to your brain! I noticed that the Auxiliary Police Officers were unarmed - that makes a lot of sense! And Bloomberg's answer to this senseless loss of law enforcement was to get them body armor, so now the criminals will have to aim for the policemen's heads. Which is what the gunmen did to Officer Marshalik to begin with.

We have reason to remember Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly saying that the two brave auxiliaries and the equally brave cops who then killed the gunman may well have prevented a massacre. Our psycho certainly had enough bullets.

One bullet per target is all that is required regardless of the weapon. How many bullets the assailant had is as relevant to the discussion as how much gas was in the tank of an automobile driven by a drunk driver. The lack of a weapon by law enforcement is certainly relevant and cost these officers their lives. It had nothing to do with lack of body armor. (Human shields?)

When we listened to yesterday's gunshots as recorded by a cell phone video, we assumed the police we saw holding back had been ordered to watch the perimeter while other cops charged through the chained doors toward the gunfire. We hoped they had not hesitated as the cops did during the massacre at the Columbine High School in 1999.

But they did hesitate, didn't they? All the more reason for doing away with "Gun-Free" zones. One student with a CHP would have made the police's hestitance irrelevant. What good is police protection if the response time allows the perpetrator to accomplish his goals? The only sure defense is concealed carry.

We replayed yesterday's video and listened to those gunshots again, each the hyper-real sound of a gun doing exactly what it is engineered to do no matter who is holding it, no matter who it is pointed at, be they on a New York street or in Norris Hall at Virginia Tech.

"Hyper-real?" Talk about "hyper-bole!" Did they teach English at any of those 16 grammar schools you attended? Or did you miss that day? Must be another example of that fine NY education system.

Today, Virginia Tech will hold a public convocation in the wake of the carnage. President Bush has said he will attend, but his spokeswoman assures us he remains a firm believer in the right to bear arms.

Every President swears an oath to uphold and defend the US Constitution. Last time I checked, the 2nd Amendment is still there.

Also expected to be there is Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, who is returning early from an overseas trip. He recently signed Bill 2106, the anti-Bloomberg legislation that forbids undercover agents from making straw purchases.

Good on Governor Kaine! While I don't usually see eye-to-eye with the Governor, he stepped up to the plate on that issue. Too bad Virginia has to protect itself from Yankee politics and frivolous lawsuits. Arresting and convicting committers of fraud across state lines is the federal government's job, not Virginia's.

Not even the worst campus massacre in American history is about to stop Bob Moates Sports Shop of Midlothian, Va., from going ahead with its big Bloomberg Gun GiveAway. The winner will receive a Para-Ordinance Model 1911 .45 automatic, silver and no less deadly than the black pistol a witness says the Virginia Tech psycho used. The 1911 is part of the company's new line of "Gun Rights" pistols, which carry the guarantee the company will donate $25 to the National Rifle Association for every one sold.

It was originally scheduled for April 16. Despite your attempt at making us gun owners look heartless, the raffle was postponed as a result of the VT massacre.

"The drawing is April 19," a man at Moates said yesterday.

My God! Daly, did you actually set foot into a gun shop? Or are you quoting a 3rd hand quote?

No wonder some of our cops up here in New York say the bumper stickers down there should really read, "Virginia Is for Gun Lovers."

And we Virginians say that "New York City is for Criminals."

What do you say now, Virginia?

I say we close the northern border of Virginia and keep you people out. We'll keep our guns and you keep your criminals.