http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/2008a/pr249-08.html
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PR- 249-08
June 26, 2008
STATEMENT BY MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG ON SUPREME COURT RULING IN
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA V. HELLER
"In just two years, 320 Democratic, Republican, and independent
mayors have come together to support the common sense goal of keeping
guns out of the hands of criminals. From the beginning, we have said
that fighting illegal guns has nothing to do with the Second
Amendment rights of Americans. Today's decision by the Supreme Court
upholding those rights will benefit our coalition by finally putting
to rest the ideological debates that have for too long obscured an
obvious fact: criminals, who have no right to purchase or possess
guns, nevertheless have easy access to them. Mayors and police
chiefs have a responsibility to crack down on illegal guns and punish
gun criminals, and it is encouraging that the Supreme Court
recognizes the constitutionality of reasonable regulations that allow
for us to carry out those responsibilities."