Frankly, I could take him a little more seriously on guns if his cops were a little slower to use them to pop people.  A big story in NYC the last week is that of the 49 y/o Army veteran (that seems to be all he did with his life, and years ago) who was killed by an undercover cop for telling the cop to get off his mother's stoop.

Mind you, the cop was undercover doing a drug deal/bust, and the now-dead guy came out from inside and (reasonably believing the undercover to be a real dealer) told him to get his dealing butt off the stoop.  Cop says "no", scuffle ensues, cop shoots guy.

Then there are the screechers in Jersey.  Jersey City's mayor and police have been on an anti-gun crusade for a while, but they will somehow figure out a way to turn a Bonnie and Clyde shootout last week into more anti-gun propaganda.  In short, the cops were staking out a pair of alleged armed robbers - Bonnie and Clyde, we'll call them - who they believed were involved in robbing a Jiffy Lube guy and capping him with a shotgun.  Bonnie and Clyde had a car, and were expected to come out to move it (to avoid the street sweeper) first thing in the morning.  The cops were late setting up the stakeout, or Clyde was early.  Clyde made the cops, dropped his robe (he wore ethnic robe-y clothes), pulled his shotgun and opened up.  

By the time things were over, five cops had been shot and Bonnie and Clyde were dead.  All before 7 am.  Busting into Bonnie and Clyde's apartment, one of the cops too two shotgun rounds in the face.  He was removed from life support yesterday.  Another took one to the neck and is expected to recover, and the others have already been released.  The shootout ended when the cops stormed Bonnie and Clyde's apartment.

The autopsies revealed that Clyde had over 30 holes in him and they dug 19 bullets out of him.  Bonnie only had two holes and one bullet in her, but that bullet was "at the base of her skull".

In other words, the cops dumped their clips into Clyde "to make sure" and executed Bonnie.  The cops fired at least 50 rounds, all told.

That's the only conclusion which can reasonably be drawn when the county prosecutor releases the autopsy and says "the results speak for themselves".

And the police see no reason to second-guess themselves or change any procedures.

So, yesterday, an officer from the same Jersey City police department shot and killed a woman in her home when responding to a domestic disturbance call.  She allegedly was waving a knife around.  Per the Mayor and police:

Mayor Jerramiah Healy, at a press conference late last night at the Jersey City Medical Center, said: "The wife had psychiatric issues in the past and wasn't taking her medication."

By the time police got to the apartment, the husband was in the hallway and the wife had locked herself inside the apartment and chained the door, and police had to use boltcutters to get in the door, Healy said.

So, you lock youself in when not taking your meds, and wind up shot - multiple times - to death.

In small, confined spaces of city apartments, these cops can't shoot straight or, when they do, they expend military-style "volume of fire" to make sure they kill you, so they don't have to do more paperwork later.  

Don't get me wrong - Jersey City is, in many respects, a town as rough or rougher than some of the worst parts of NYC.  I knew someone once who lived in JC and, in addition to being mugged, was made to dance in the manner of the old cowboy movies - his mugger pulled a 9 mm and shot it at his feet demanding a dance.  

I don't much care for the idea of people carrying concealed weapons around, more because having a gun is an open invitation to use it.  And, once used, it cannot be un-used.  But, by the same token, I am far more afraid of the police going into combat mode for no reason, or no good reason, at all, than I am of some guy who thinks whatever his fears are justify his packing heat.  

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. "

commas, passive voice, what the Hell does it mean?  Whatever SCOTUS says it means period.

Personally, I am ok with hunters having rifles, and homeowners pistols in their homes.  I draw the line at semi-automatics, machine guns, bazookas, grenade launchers, ICBMs etc.  

The gun proposal would have made concealed weapons permits from one state valid in other states as long as the person obeys the laws of other states, such as weapons bans in certain localities.

As a strong supporter of the individual right to bear arms and the Second Amendment

and you'll still be wrong. show me anywhere in the constitution that the author's intended, other than as part of a "well regulated militia", that individuals have an unqualified right to weapons ownership.

i'll spare you the research, there isn't one.

all that aside, how many people truly need concealed weapons, for purposes of self-protection? as well, how many of them have the training and experience necessary to handle those weapons, in a tense situation, correctly?