Celebrities lives are worth more then yours in NYC

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NYC doing a great job showing why gun laws are by their very nature elitist and racist. Are these people at greater risk then the old man who runs a convenience store in Brooklyn? :rolleyes:

As usual, if you have the contacts, the $$$, and the clout, you can get an LTC in NYC.

I also remember Howard Stern bragging on air about his LTC and collection of Glocks. [i][b]

They might not be dangerous, but they’re armed.

Seeking an added layer of protection, more high-profile celebrities are seeking permits to carry guns in New York City, according to New York’s Daily News.

Among the big names licensed to pack heat: Marc Anthony, Robert De Niro, Donald Trump, and his son, Donald Jr., Mets third baseman David Wright, and Martha Stewart’s daughter, radio host Alexis Stewart.

Anthony, 42, has a special permit that allows him to carry a loaded weapon in the city, and has a similar permit for Nassau County, where he and Jennifer Lopez have a $2 million home in Brookville.

One reason for the rise in interest seems to be the vulnerability some celebrities feel in the Internet age, where so much personal information can be accessed online. “They can get their own security, but with the Internet, it is much easier to find people,” attorney John Skylar Chambers tells the News. “They don’t want to find someone on their lawn at five in the morning.”

Gun permit aren’t easy, or cheap, to get. Applicants must show that they often carry large amounts of cash or valuables, or that they are being threatened in some way. And the application alone costs a nonrefundable $340.

Despite the rise in applications from celebrities, the number of permits issued in New York City is actually down by 2.4 percent this year, to 2,093[/b][/i].

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20429404,00.html

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And the application alone costs a nonrefundable $340.

Unbelieveable. That is almost criminal, taking money for an application for a permit that you are surely going to deny to some working stiff.

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Probably prevents most working stiffs from applying in the first place, which is the intent I bet.

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Typical liberal, blue state BS…

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Makes me sick…

Permit fee in NJ is only $20, but the chances of getting it are just as good as in NY.

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They are “may issue” states, which means if you have enough $$$ and or clout, it’s shall issue for you, and no issue for the rest of the have nots…:rolleyes:

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I think it is Barbara Feinstein who has a CA permit for carrying a Chief’s Special. Because she is special and we are not.

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An example of the hypocrisy would be Don Imus, who has talked about his drug binges on the open air and yet still had a permit to carry which was never molested by the NYPD despite his drunken, drug filled binges which brought him into contact with law enforcement on multiple occasions.

It helps to be rich and famous.

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Paying for your constitutional rights ehh? :mad: How backwards has our nation really gotten? I am at a loss for words when I see shit like this. So many elitist groups in this country, so many different sets of rules; it is just pathetic. Our constitution has been too harshly abused.

When will people wake up and spring to action against these tyrants for fucks sake?

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This kind of sh*t is what makes me sick about this state. (please don’t say “why don’t you move,” because we can’t at the moment).

The NYC permit laws are absolute insanity. They go beyond what can even be considered rational, and are totally elitist. The average working stiff has very little chance of being approved, if they can even come up with money for the permit.

I consider the costs on these things equivalent to a Poll Tax. The entire city of NY’s 2nd Amendment rights are reliant on the individuals expendable income. When you factor in the mandatory sentences for illegal guns in the city, well…

Last time I was in the city I saw a subway advert about how it is now illegal to have a “Toy Gun That Looks Like A Real Gun.” Meaning Airsoft, ext.

Then travel upstate to Westchester County and you have to purchase a pistol before you can apply for a permit. However you can’t legally touch the pistol until you have the permit. Meaning you have to go into the store, and pick one based on aesthetics and brand, then wait the several months until your application is approved. If it’s not, well… The one store I was talking with said they loose insane amounts of money on returns/exchanges/refunds from this one county alone. Imagine buying a pistol having never held it?

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watched some stupid interview clip with some celeb ?
it was bout gun laws and the interviewer asked why they are so anti gun and wanted to ban everyone from having the ability to protect themselves ?

then she said well they are dangerous and kill people blah blah blah

then the interviewer said but your body guard carries a gun ?

she said “WELL I AM IMPORTANT”

that pretty much said it all !!

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There are lots of protected classes in America not just celebrities.

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That is for sure.

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I always hate the “Why don’t you leave” bullshit argument. This is our country, our states, we shouldn’t leave when they infringe on our constitutional rights/liberty; we should revolt and take those rights/liberty back.

I would never go to (Again), let alone live in New York, but telling someone to leave their state when they are in the right, and the state government is wrong and acting unconstitutional is just fucking idiotic! Stand your ground and fight the fuckers!

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Haha, my rural county issued almost twice that many permits in a year . . .

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Typical, “do as I say, not as I do.” :rolleyes:

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I would love to fight… but you can not imagine the amount of apathy even in the gun owner’s community.

I dated the doughter of an NJ Chief of Police. This was before I was a gun owner, but I was old enough to. Knowing very little about NJ gun laws at the time, but knowing enough to say it was imposible to get a CCW permit I asked him as a goof if he would help me get my CCW permit. He said “Why would you need to carry a handgun?” This was a Chief LEO… need? What about right? He could CCW. I cant.

Yet another protected class Belmont, LEO can get CCW’s in NJ. I can’t

I took my first carbine class tought by an NJ State Trooper. I was the only student who was not an LEO. When I said how sad I was that I could not carry their answer to me was a Surfire Defender flashlight. What the fuck am I going to do with a flashlight being 130lbs against a 200lbs thug with a gun? :rolleyes: But they can all CCW, so why do they care.

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It is easier to count the non-protected classes of Hyphened-Americans on 1 hand…err I mean non-hyphended…

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2,093 out of (approx) 8.5 MILLION people. That’s some sad shit.

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I totally hear you. I am more talking about the people that say blanket statements like if you don’t like ______ then leave. That mentality to me is just so ignorant and blatantly Anti American I cannot stand it when I hear those words uttered. Do what you wish leave, fight for your rights, hide under a bridge, more power to you. I just hate the “Leave then…” attitude/mentality/argument bullshit.

You should’ve asked the LEO what reason he had for carrying a concealed weapon when he asked you that shit. If he has a reason, so do you. And beyond that fuck a reason its a right. And beyond that fuck a right extended by a govt. its my natural born right, I am a naturally born free man who practices liberty regardless of basless/unconstitutional laws that our govt’s. try to force on me. Carrying concealed (Regardless of if you let the local sheriff rape you first or just do it) is a 2A right, period, I don’t care how you want to interpret “the right to bear arms”; it is to the point:
THE
RIGHT
TO
BEAR
ARMS
SHALL
NOT
BE
INFRINGED

What in that staement can be construed as; “the right to bear arms can not be infringed; unless…___” <– add any of the numerous moronic and ignorant excuses here.

When we stop carrying, be it in the open or concealed, we allow them to froce these unconstitutional laws on us; we are accepting the fact that they are usurping our rights; we ALLOW it. THats the whole point we can decide to allow it to happen or do something about it.

Laws that are unjust and unconstitutional should not be followed nor enforced. Anyone who follows these unjust unconstitutional laws or helps to enforce them is a fucking piece of shit anti Freedom loving cock sucker!