Council targets gun biz

A bill proposed by Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz (D-Manhattan) and supported by 11 other sponsors will have its first hearing tomorrow before the Public Safety Committee.

Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum endorsed the bill, saying the July 23 killing of Brooklyn Councilman James Davis in City Council chambers "makes this even more poignant."

Davis was fatally shot by a disturbed political rival, Othniel Askew, who was shot and killed by a security cop. The Moskowitz bill had been introduced before Davis' death.

Y'know what bugs me about this? Well, aside from the fact that the bill is complete bullshit?

The bill was introduced before the shooting. Now, if it had been introduced afterwards, no big deal; it will still be bovine excrement, but lawmakers are known to get rather shakey when one of their elite gets shot, particularly if most of them saw it happen, and the gun-control groups are well-known for dancing in the blood of the victims. But it was introduced before the shooting.

What if the killer was somehow a stalking horse? We've seen this kind of thing before; just when the anti-gun lobbists have something they really want to push, someone important gets shot in a media-centric way. There's a saying concerning things like this: "Once is coincidence; twice is bad luck; three times is enemy action."

By that standard we are well into "enemy action" by now. And we know that the anti-gun groups aren't squeamish; remember the Million Mom who shot and paralyzed someone she thought (wrongly) had killed her own son? I don't have any doubt that they could arrange something like this in utterly cold blood.

On the other hand, I don't have any positive evidence for this either; I'm just getting suspicious.