I’m all for MORE guns on the streets…in the hands of the RIGHT PEOPLE, instead of all the damn thugs.
Now, THAT will cause EQUALITY among men.

A great story. Go Grandma!

Interesting story. I’d like to take the gun away from the guys who commit crimes like this. Tom and Rusty (and most Democrats) would prefer to take them away from the grandmother.

I never owned a gun, let alone carried one on my person when I mow my own lawn, until I moved into a neighborhood here in Fort Wayne where crime was out of control. People would routinely sell crack cocaine openenly on the sidewalk right in front of my home. Frequently they would creep into my yard and even onto my front porch when I was not at home. After being blown off by the Fort Wayne Police Department for nearly a decade, I sent a certified letter to FWPD Chief York explaining the situation and asking for his department’s help. I received no reply from Chief York, but this did cause the drug dealers to throw several molotov cocktails at my home in retaliation.

I have tried to help the police with the drug and gun problems in my neighborhood, but they have made it clear that they do not want any help. What they want to do is bust ass once every year or two to quiet down a particular hot spot, then declare mission accomplished and go back to their previous policy of failure. If they really want to permanently effect the problem, they must work with the residents who are sufferring from it. But they are too arrogant to admit that they are not omniscent and that they actually need the help of people outside of their department.

You are right, more guns is not the best solution, but attacking the rights of responsible gun owners is a worse solution. What they need to do is crack down on people who buy, sell and use guns illegally. I think that Mayor Henry and Chief York do not care at all about people like me. They are trying to disarm me, while doing little to disarm the criminals who harass me. They don’t have the courage to take on the real problem, so they offer a pretend solution in instead.

His police department does not want illegal guns off the street, and that is a fact!!!

I think that what that department (and Henry) really want is for the law abiding citizens who own guns to quit complaining about the crime that the Mayor and Police Chief are unwilling/unable to control. By disarming the non-criminals, they would be forced to aquiesce to the criminals – as Henry and York already have done. They choose this tactic because they think it is less dangerous to attack the non-crimnals than to attack the criminals. They take what they think is the easy path because they are COWARDS!!!

If they are not liars or cowards, then they are just extremely ignorant of what is going on in their city – too ignorant to justify holding the important positions that they do. If I am wrong, let the lying/cowardly/ignorant Mayor Tom Henry and his Police Chief Rusty York sue me for defamation of character.

Phillip D Marx
462 E Suttenfield St
Fort Wayne, IN

This is a beautiful example of MISDIRECTION…
(keep watching BOTH hands, friends)
Hell, I’M all for ILLEGAL guins being taken off the streets, and I’m a staunch advocate of the 2nd Amendment.
Nice to see SOME mayors back out of this.
…all smoke and mirrors, baby!

NRA links:
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=5134
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=5103