{"id":3931,"date":"2011-09-21T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/09\/21\/ccrkba-blasts-ny-governor-cuomos\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:16:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:16:14","slug":"ccrkba-blasts-ny-governor-cuomos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3931","title":{"rendered":"CCRKBA Blasts NY Governor Cuomo&#8217;s Proposal For Closing Prisons And More Gun Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16950,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nydailynews.com\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/18\\\/2011-09-18_gov_andrew_cuomo_calls_for_shutting_state_prisons_investing_in_community_in_ligh.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nydailynews.com\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/18\\\/2011-09-18_gov_andrew_cuomo_calls_for_shutting_state_prisons_investing_in_community_in_ligh.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16951,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/archives.hud.gov\\\/remarks\\\/cuomo\\\/speeches\\\/smwsagr.cfm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/2011\/09\/18\/2011-09-18_gov_andrew_cuomo_calls_for_shutting_state_prisons_investing_in_community_in_ligh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a speech given at the kickoff breakfast<\/a> for the African-American Day Parade in New York City&#8217;s Harlem, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) called for shutting down some prisons in order to save money. He also called for more Federal gun control.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Cuomo also pushed for stricter gun control laws from the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been decades where we have been fighting Washington for sensible laws controlling guns and we need those laws passed and we need them passed now. We&#8217;re losing too many people out in the streets,&#8221; he said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lest it be forgotten, when he was Bill Clinton&#8217;s Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, Cuomo was responsible for pushing extortion-like lawsuits against gun manufacturers and <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.hud.gov\/remarks\/cuomo\/speeches\/smwsagr.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for signing the infamous agreement with Smith and Wesson<\/a> that allowed the government to mandate many so-called safety features. That agreement was signed only after the government essentially said &#8220;sign or we&#8217;ll sue you out of business.&#8221; It was later repudiated by the new owners of Smith and Wesson.<\/p>\n<p>The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has responded to Cuomo&#8217;s new call for gun control with a blistering response.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>BELLEVUE, WA \u2013 New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s call for more gun control laws while advocating the closure of prisons in a Sunday speech proves he is \u201cdrinking too much of Michael Bloomberg\u2019s Kool-Aid,\u201d the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Cuomo made his comments during a Harlem breakfast prior to the African-American Day parade, according to the New York Daily News. He reportedly said closing some prisons would release more funding for local programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Andrew Cuomo thinks keeping thugs out of prison, so he can pump the money into some community program while pushing for further disarmament of potential crime victims makes sense,\u201d said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, \u201che\u2019s been breathing too much of the same air as the mayor of New York City. The other day, Bloomberg was babbling about riots in the streets if the government doesn\u2019t \u2018do something\u2019 about creating jobs. It now appears Andrew Cuomo wants to keep hoodlums working, in the neighborhoods, in the convenience stores, on the streets; anywhere they can rob and steal from honest citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Cuomo also complained that we could send a person to Harvard University for the same amount it costs to incarcerate them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell,\u201d Gottlieb said, \u201cthat certainly makes sense. Let\u2019s just move thugs to college campuses. Maybe the governor thinks criminals will climb the ladder of success by robbing a more affluent class of victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndrew Cuomo and Michael Bloomberg apparently live in the same fantasy world,\u201d Gottlieb said. \u201cThey want to throw government money around, either to invent make-work jobs that accomplish nothing, or to pad some social program at the expense of much-needed jail space, while working overtime to disarm law-abiding citizens. They\u2019re not in the State of New York; they\u2019re in a state of confusion.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a speech given at the kickoff breakfast for the African-American Day Parade in New York City&#8217;s Harlem, Gov.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,209,2037],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ccrkba","tag-gov-andrew-cuomo","tag-gun-control-supporters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7219,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/7219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}