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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCongrats New York
That's how you deal with attacks on children and firefighters.
Excellent leadership!!! Bravo!!! Fuck the NRA!!
virgogal
(10,178 posts)malaise
(269,186 posts)new gun laws
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/15/new-york-cuomo-gun-control
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New York governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday signed into law one of the nation's toughest gun control measures and the first to be enacted since the mass shooting last month at an elementary school in neighboring Connecticut.
The bill passed the Democratic-led assembly on Tuesday afternoon, a day after sweeping through the Republican-majority senate.
The bill expands the state's ban on assault weapons, puts limits on ammunition capacity and has new measures to keep guns out of the hands of mentally ill people.
The measure also mandates a life sentence without parole for anyone who murders a first responder. Just two weeks after the massacre in Connecticut, an arsonist gunman ambushed and killed two firefighters responding to a fire he had set near Rochester.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)virgogal
(10,178 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)just look at the headlines - that helps
demmiblue
(36,898 posts)Half the time, no one knows wtf she is talking about.
But we still lurves her!
virgogal
(10,178 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Excellent.
DrewFlorida
(1,096 posts)Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)This is what quick and decisive action looks like.
And I'm very grateful to all of the Republicans who were on board with this. If only their reasonableness would infect the rest of their party...
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)guns strapped to their backs, hobo sac of ammo on the barrels, hoping to land in gun friendly PA before the Feds grab their guns........