News flash: Famous People's Bodyguards Carry Firearms!
I link this incident not to add to the bonfire of Moore hatred (Moore himself keeps that bad boy going all by himself), but to point out something of the insanity of gun control. Would anyone like to estimate how many hundreds of thousands of illegal firearms are found in the Five Boroughs? So who do the police actually arrest? Someone, whose job involves providing protection, who "declared he was carrying a firearm at a ticket counter." Apparently the only way the NYPD makes a gun bust is if the perp says "Hey, arrest me! Come on, G-Man, arrest me!"
Are we ready to give this up yet? Are we ready to stop pretending that law and coercion alone can make a society un-violent? The NYPD is the size of an Army Division, and they can't stop drugs, and they can't stop guns. They never will.
We need to do something else.
Well, Ain't That a Kick In the Pants?: Turns out the story's bogus. Burk was and is employed by a bodyguard firm and was once assigned to protect Lumpy, but not any longer, and not on the date in question. Boo on Fox News for screwing the story up. Although the question of why a Port Authority (not NYPD) cop felt the need to bring this guy in for questioning if it was all as routine as the firm says it was could prove interesting. Plus, it keeps MY point intact. Huzzah!
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