Poetic justice

LAA · Feb 9, 2014

Read that a guy in New York state who lobbied for years to get a gun law passed that made it an automatic felony to bring a gun on school grounds for any reason just got caught with a gun on school grounds and now he is facing mandatory prison time. The upshot is he has a concealed carry permit but his own law got him. Like the old saying, be careful what you wish for because you might just get it.

bo · Feb 9, 2014

He never had a thing to do with that law being passed. You need to proof your readings.

LAA · Feb 9, 2014

I don't remember mentioning a name, probably because I did not mention a name, I read an article in the paper that said this guy lobbied and campaigned for the law and then got caught on a school campus with a gun, so maybe you need to learn how to read.

rrlund · Feb 9, 2014

Had to be a lefty. The laws doesn't apply to them. As long as they're in favor of them,they're exempt.

Gambles · Feb 9, 2014

But there is some irony here. I remember reading several years ago where some senators were trying to enact laws to shut down coal-burning power plants. Then they found out that the building that they work in, and make laws in, was heated by a coal-powered plant. They think they are exempt from everything they pass.

Greg K · Feb 9, 2014

It seems everyone can point at a hypocrite. When Rush Limbaugh had his drug problem there were people who couldn't wait to point out his earlier comments about drug addicts. However you are right and chickens come home to roost

Sean Feeney · Feb 9, 2014

Dwayne Ferguson spent more than a decade advocating for nonviolence and peace in the streets of Buffalo. He was a well-known face in the movement for the SAFE Act
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oldtanker · Feb 9, 2014

I wonder if there will be poetic justice if the president, senate and congress allows the EPA to get it's way concerning coal fire power plant and everyone's electric bill goes up the projected 30%.

Rick

Mark - IN. · Feb 9, 2014

Kind of like when a certain female former speaker of the house pushed for raising the minimum wage then, and is screaming to raise it again now, but when she was speaker of the house, lobbied for and got an exemption that did NOT raise the minimum wage for the Islands of Somoa where not only a major campaign donor to her elections and reelections owns a tuna processing plant, BUT she and her husband own a posh hotel registered in his name, not hers to help the news media bury it below surface.

There are a million of them. If you or I did what they do, we would go to prison, but they just keep getting elected and reelected.

Mark

bo · Feb 9, 2014

He had nothing to do with the bringing of guns on school property law. That law was on the books long before he came on the scene. Read your own link better. We're only talking about the "on school property law".

bo · Feb 9, 2014

If you believe every thing you read in the papers without objective, specific proof, you have a serious problem. Ask your self, how often were the reporters wrong or twisted something. Did this guy advocate no gun violence? Yes. Was he instrumental in getting the decades old law about "no guns on school property" passed. No. Did he advocate increasing the penalty from a misdemeanor to a felony? Yes.
So, before you criticize my reading, I suggest you sharpen your thinking and reading process up a bit.

Greg K · Feb 9, 2014

I'm not arguing with anything that you said, but some more facts are that tuna processing is about the only industry on the Samoan islands. When the previous minimum wage hike took effect it priced labor out of a job and decimated the local economy. This happened about the time of a lot of other global economic issues so the exact effect of forcing too high of a minimum wage is unknown, however the effect is understood. Yes, the Samoan islands needed exempted, but our do gooders knew better and ruined a local industry. I did not know about the ownership of the canning factories though.

Mark - IN. · Feb 9, 2014

My point isn't whether or not the minimum wage should have or should not have gone up. My point was about a very powerful person using, abusing her power to thrust upon us what she and many like her, feel they are exempt from, using laws, legislation to do so. A "perk" due her, through her position as she and they see it. There are countless examples of that, to Gambles' point.

Mark

Jim CIn. · Feb 9, 2014

Goes to show you, some of these do-gooders aren't as smart as they think they are!

LAA · Feb 9, 2014

bo -- I would suggest it is you that has the serious problem because you don"t seem to be able to recognize the difference between someone commenting on an article they read and testifying to a grand jury. I am under no obligation to run out and investigate or substantiate every story I read in the newspaper. You, on the other hand, are just parsing words and ""spinning"" the story, if the man campaigned for the New York SAFE act of 2013 as the Buffalo newspaper story says he did then he was bitten by his own dog.

John_PA · Feb 9, 2014

"[Ferguson] was among local activists who stood with Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes last year lobbying for a law that would make possessing a gun on school property a felony. Prior to New York State’s adoption of the SAFE Act last year, in response to the Sandy Hook school massacre in Connecticut, it was a long-established state law that guns could not be brought onto school property."

bo. read.

First sentence quoted.

""[Ferguson] was among local activists who stood with Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes last year lobbying for a law that would make possessing a gun on school property a felony."

I'll break it down. "[Ferguson]... lobbying... for a law... possessing a gun on school property... felony."

He lobbied for the law. That's what it says. The new law overrides the old law, but it is considered a new law, not a change in an old law. old law is tossed. new law is passed. What he states is completely accurate.

It's ok, we all get confused some times. Openness is key to understanding.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 10, 2014

Best case scenario he's ignorant. Worst case scenario, he's an ignorant hypocrite FELON!

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