A New York State of...B-S

A nice little rebuttal on Mayor Bloomberg's patently unConstitutional attempt to regulate interstate commerce from the National Shooting Sports Foundation's Larry Keane:

Mayor Bloomberg misfired recently when he signed a bill permitting crime victims to sue law-abiding, out-of-state gun makers unless they change their lawful sales and distribution practices by adopting the city's so-called "code of conduct" ("Mike Opens Fire on Gun Makers," Jan. 19).

The law is an unconstitutional attempt to regulate interstate commerce, something only Congress can do.

There already is a "code of conduct" for the firearm industry. It's called the Gun Control Act.

More importantly, this law will not reduce gun crime in the city.

Darn shame it was in the "Letters" section! It just shores up my argument thatNYC is NOT part of the United States, but is, instead the equivalent of a Banana Republic —maybe a Manolo Blahnik Republic — just off our shores. I say do an even swap for someplace nice in Eastern Europe, maybe the Czech Republic. We still have a really big city — Prague, which not only has food as good as NYC but is actually clean — and the people actually like the U.S.! I'm liking this a lot!