Firing Back: Did Otis Rolley Get Advice From Chris Rock?
Comedian Chris Rock once did a whole routine on how guns wouldn’t be a problem if ammunition cost more. While a funny routine, no one should be laughing as Otis Rolley, a Baltimore, Maryland mayoral candidate has proposed a $1 per cartridge tax!
Rolley suggests this effort would cut down on crime and random gunfire. Of course how he expects to enforce this law is not clear. If Rolley had watched any episodes of HBO’s The Wire, which is set in Baltimore, he would know that the fictional drug gangs drove vast distances to obtain supplies of drugs, and even drove miles outside the city to burn disposable mobile phones (burners as they were called). What would stop criminals from driving outside the city to stock up on ammunition?
We feel that Rolley would just use this as an excuse to push for even greater restrictions against firearms and ammunition. Let’s hope that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and others from Mayors Against Illegal Guns don’t jump on this band wagon.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Declares War on Guns
In a scene out of HBO’s The Wire, the police commissioner in Baltimore declared war on guns reports The Baltimore Sun. We praise the commissioner, and the Baltimore police department’s efforts to make the city safer. We just hope that “getting guns off the streets” doesn’t mean out of the hands of law-abiding citizens as well.
