PORTLAND ENACTS NEW RULES TO STOP “GUN MURDERS”
It was actually almost comical. Sam Adams, Portland’s disgraced and deceitful Mayor, along with the rest of the Portland City Council, voted today to enact new ordinances to deal with the fact that Portland’s gang members shoot each other.
Council member Nick Fish commented that the new regulations would not solve the problem, and then voted for them. The new ordinances can be viewed here.
They create a new crime of allowing a minor to have access to a firearm (unless you give him permission) and a new crime of failing to report a stolen gun, with a $200 fee if you cannot provide the serial number. (Unless you “don’t know” the gun is missing.)
Needless to say, these measures are pointless political posturing by a mayor who has no idea how to deal with threats to the city he runs.
Adams said that the problem is that African American men were “being murdered by guns” never acknowledging that, in fact, African American men are being killed, in large part, by African American men.
Proving that Adams has only the most distant connection with reality, he promoted his stolen- gun-reporting law by using Washington DC as an example of a place where few handguns are “illegally exported.” This is, according to Adams, because D.C. has a mandatory stolen gun reporting requirement. The fact that it is almost impossible to steal a lawfully owned gun in a city that does not allow anyone to HAVE a lawfully owned gun never seems to have dawned on the mayor, who also had no idea that someone was planning to detonate a truck full of explosives in the city’s “living room.” Sam also made no mention of Washington’s astronomical murder rate.
Video of the Council meeting will be posted here.
News story here.