New York Says NO to the Use of Illegal Guns

By Juanita

1. NY Daily News
2. NY Sun

After last years numbers on murders and the posession of illegal guns, New York city decided to start with a much needed anti-gun campaign. This campaign was inspired by both the obvious desire to curb crime and diminishing the black gun market. The campaign deals with the fact that the carrying of an illegal piece of armament will result in a jail time of about 3-1/2 years. It was officially initiated the 17th of July and is expected to startle the city with black-white warnings advertising the consequences of carrying illegal weapons. Although some of these ads can be funny and are intended to reach a wide audience others are just done to give the message as clear as possible by saying “GUNS=PRISON”, creating a bigger impact and being straight forward in their message.

But as reported in data collected before, as a result of this campaign the prices of guns have had a huge rise in both the legal and black market, since in many ways they function the same. This data indicates a positive outcome for this ambitious plan.

Richard Aborn president of the Non-Profit Citizens Crimes Commission states that the main intention is to “blanket the town with this message”, and this is already beginning to happen.

Most of the units of the NYPD will back up this message and objective by investigating everyone who possesses a weapon and most importantly those suspects who posses illegal firearms. Although there have been many failed attempts in congress to limit cops and their access to guns in the department, New York city’s Mayor Bloomberg, is not giving up and trusts he will gain more support after wrapping up his campaign. “People in this country are tired of criminals on the streets with guns” says Bloomberg who is confident these ads will give an enormous change on the upsetting statistics on last years crimes.