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I'd take him over Cuomo.

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I'd take him over Cuomo.

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I think he's been out of the game too long to be taken seriously as a candidate.

Has there ever been anyone out of the spotlight for 8 years and done it?

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Fuck that guy.

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He's the ASSHOLE that made the "Assault Weapons BAN" Permanent in NY FUCK THAT GUY as much as CUOMO!

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Sulu from Star Trek?

PATAKI PROPOSES A BROAD PACKAGE OF GUN CONTROLS

By RICHARD PEREZ-PENA
Published: March 15, 2000

Swimming against the tide of his own party, Gov. George E. Pataki today proposed a sweeping package of gun controls, including mandatory trigger locks with gun sales, a ban on assault weapons and steps to make it easier for the police to trace guns used in crimes.

Gun control advocates say the measures, if enacted, would give New York among the strictest gun controls in the country.

''Ultimately, if you think it's the right thing, you have to pursue it,'' Mr. Pataki told ABC News in an interview tonight. ''I'm hopeful we can get this through the Legislature.''

One of the measures would require so-called ballistics fingerprinting, which would record the unique markings from all new guns so that bullets and shell casings could later be traced to them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/15/nyregion/pataki-proposes-a-broad-package-of-gun-controls.html

Pataki Signs Nation's Strictest Gun Controls

By RICHARD PEREZ-PENA
Published: August 10, 2000

At a place best known as a scene of random, irrational violence, Gov. George E. Pataki today signed into law the strictest gun controls in the country.

United States Representative Carolyn McCarthy, a Democrat, embraced Mr. Pataki and kissed his cheek, and, her eyes brimming with tears, called him ''so courageous'' to have gone against the views of so many of the nation's leading Republicans.

The National Rifle Association has criticized elements of the state's new gun law as infringing on the rights of gun owners, while the firearms industry has dismissed it as meaningless posturing that will have no real effect on violence.

The law encompasses several measures, most of which have been tried in a few other states, though no other state has as broad a combination of restrictions. Most of the measures go into effect Nov. 1:

*All new handguns will be required to be test-fired before they are sold, so that the telltale markings they leave on bullets and shell casings can be entered into a state computer database. New York is the second state to enact such a ''ballistic fingerprinting'' provision, a few days after Maryland. It goes into effect on March 1.

*Assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition clips will be banned, mirroring the ban put into federal law in 1994. Local law enforcement officials have long complained that they needed a state law that would apply in state courts.

*Background checks will be mandated for handgun buyers at gun shows. The federal background check requirement of the Brady Law applies only to federally licensed gun dealers, but most sales at gun shows are made by private citizens. The provision goes into effect immediately.

*All new guns sold will be required to have trigger locks.

*The legal age for getting a handgun permit and buying a handgun will rise to 21 from 18.

*A new crime of criminal purchase of a weapon will be created for instances when someone buys a gun illegally or buys one for someone else who cannot legally buy one.

*Gun owners will be required to report lost or stolen guns to the police.

*A state police study of the sources of illegal guns in New York State will be mandated. Most of the guns are first bought in other states.

*The state police will be instructed to study ''smart gun'' technology that would allow a gun to be fired only by its legal owner.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/10/nyregion/pataki-signs-nation-s-strictest-gun-controls.html

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Good lord, is he the best we've got? Sad.

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Yes, he is.

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Hell no, I've lived under that regime.

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Fuck that guy.