BELLEVUE, WA – -(AmmoLand.com)- The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today blasted so-called “police reforms” in various American cities for hindering law enforcement efforts to remove contraband guns from the streets, thus enabling criminals to illegally circulate firearms to convicted felons or underage thugs, contributing to a violent crime problem for which law-abiding gun owners are unfairly penalized.
A recent report said “reforms” instituted in Philadelphia that reduced traffic stops are having a negative impact. It was estimated that up to 80 percent of illegal guns “taken off the street” were due to traffic stops. There apparently are similar troubles in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. So-called “reforms” have also been instituted in Seattle, Portland, and Minneapolis.
“The same politicians tying the hands of police and preventing them from putting a crimp in gun trafficking are constantly demanding more laws to restrict law-abiding gun owners,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “It’s as though liberal city politicians are on the side of criminals rather than cops and honest citizens.”
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat, lamented earlier this week that only police should have guns, Gottlieb noted.
“Jim Kenney is a perfect example of the liberal urban political mindset,” Gottlieb said. “He complained there are ‘a lot of goofballs out there with guns and they can get them anytime they want.’ His administration made that a lot easier with these ridiculous reforms that prevent police from actually intercepting gun traffickers and discovering guns possessed by people who shouldn’t have them, during routine traffic stops.
“It is because of such policies, and soft-on-criminal prosecutors, that the nation is seeing criminals operate with impunity,” he observed. “When criminals know they’re not going to be vigorously prosecuted, they are simply emboldened to continue committing crimes that often turn violent. Then what happens? Law-abiding gun owners take the heat from self-righteous politicians for crimes they didn’t commit.
“Honest gun owners are tired of taking the rap,” Gottlieb added. “Take the handcuffs off police and put them back on the criminals. Stop demanding laws to take guns away from law-abiding citizens and instead restore policies that take guns away from outlaws who shouldn’t have them.”
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
C’mon Alan, the guns “on the street” are not illegal, they are illegally possessed. And yes, the Democrats are on the side of criminals.
I’m not sure what this supposedly pro-gun group is trying to accomplish. The goal should be to remove violent people from the streets. Not inanimate objects. There is no such thing as a “illegal gun”. There are arms, which are constitutionally protected, and then there are criminals who use arms to commit crimes against people and property. Actions can be criminal in nature but objects can not.
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Does it occur to anyone that perhaps the reason why this is, is because the politicians ARE the criminals, and the entire purpose of their existence is to steal from and oppress the citizens?
I wish they’d get the criminal off the streets and leave the rest of us alone!
A person does not need to be Jewish to understand a person that surrenders their free will to just follow orders is not a good person. Especially, when they follow orders to violate the Constitution, as that person is who the 2nd Amendment is meant to say no to with force. Yet, conservatives made it to where that socialist enforcer can murder or harm us armed Citizens, and they blame the victim. The men at Lexington and Concorde were criminals, and thankfully they did not comply with British law enforcers, who were just doing their job to harm the Citizens.… Read more »