One Law for Me, Another for Thee regarding Armed Protection in New York City
Outgoing New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg are taking with them protective details of 6 and 17 armed police officer respectively, according to Murray Weiss of DNAInfo New York.
Now, I do not deny that (due to the prominence of their positions and the ways in which both may have made enemies among New York City's criminals) such protection might be appropriate. But I do observe that both men were very much against the right to bear arms on the part of ordinary New York City citizens.
Why should they have the right to armed protection which they denied their own citizens?
This is classic liberal thinking -- one set of laws for their own self-annointed elite, and quite another for those they deem of less importance.
Now, I do not deny that (due to the prominence of their positions and the ways in which both may have made enemies among New York City's criminals) such protection might be appropriate. But I do observe that both men were very much against the right to bear arms on the part of ordinary New York City citizens.
Why should they have the right to armed protection which they denied their own citizens?
This is classic liberal thinking -- one set of laws for their own self-annointed elite, and quite another for those they deem of less importance.