Cuomo's Puffery

David Lawrence

Cuomo’s Puffery

Andrew Cuomo pontificated emotionally in his State of the State address about gun control. He boasted that he would come up with the toughest assault weapon ban in the country.

This is self-congratulatory talk—“How tough am I.” Cuomo is trying to attach himself to the death of the children and receive some approbation for speech rather than action. He wants us to think of him as the savior of our children even though I doubt that he would or ever has taken a bullet for one. He has not earned the right to make such an emotional speech. He is another poseur.

While Cuomo’s speech makes sense his very being is a razzmatazz jumble of political puffery. His logic has flown to the wind. He is tears in a bucket. But he is crying for himself. He wants the world to love him for the good man he imagines he is.

He is drawing attention to himself as a great humanitarian. But a humanitarian does not vulture-like stalk the sadness and tragedy of others. He does not grandstand by lifting the bodies of dead 1^st Grade children. If he wants to feel like a great person why doesn’t he throw himself in the way of a gun and save a child? Why doesn’t he give away 95 per cent of his income and help poor children? Why doesn’t he stop being a child and stop pretending he is great when he is merely a loud mouth crying?

Cuomo cannot steal the thunder of death. He is a lightning rod, not an explosion.

What scares me about Cuomo is what frightens me about Obama. They both speak like little Hitler’s in a bottle. They harangue. They harass people who have different opinions than them. They are bullies.

That is why I am less worried about gun control for the crazies than I am about having guns for a militia so we can defend ourselves against the politicians if they become militaristic. Dictatorship is false humanitarian feelings turned into authoritarian governmental attacks. We need to defend ourselves against Adam Lanza. But we have to defend ourselves more against the dictators, the politicians, amongst us.

Cuomo goes on to say, “Forget the extremists.” He is pointing his finger but he doesn’t admit that it’s always the extremists, like himself, who call the innocent victims of their policies “extremists.”

He says that, “No one needs 10 bullets to kill a deer and too many innocent people have died already. End the madness, now!" The madness is Cuomo’s lack of control. We will need more than 10 bullets to stop liberal fascism.

I agree with Cuomo's when he urges, "safe, reasonable gun control." It’s not the law I’m worried about. I’m afraid of his mad disposition. He and Obama are Adam Lanza’s with armies at their disposal.

Cuomo then laid out a seven-point plan, which was reasonable. If only he weren’t an extremist liberal. I approve of his federal background checks of gun sales, keeping guns from the mentally ill, etc. But I don’t approve of narcissists like Cuomo and Obama trying to strip us of our weapons to defend against their political megalomania. When we find a way to monitor their power-insanity, we can try to monitor the mini-killers like Adam Lanza and James Holmes.

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Comment by Victoria Thiel on January 19, 2013 at 5:58pm: He's another self serving buffoon. I worked in a firm where he was "of counsel". Taking up space and planning his campaign without doing a lick is all he did. Moron is too generous a word for him. He'd be working as Mickey Ds if it wasn't for his father; who, himself, was a great orator but a terrible governor - sent NY into financial difficulties that took a Rep. governor to overcome.

Comment by Doug Nicholson on January 17, 2013 at 9:00pm: @Caleb White: Yeah, I'm sure they'll rectify (meaning: pull their collective heads out of their rectums) the situation...eventually. Hop nobody is hurt or killed as a result of their stupidity. Be safe, Caleb.

Comment by David Lininger on January 17, 2013 at 7:14pm: I'd have more respect for Mr. Cuomo if he practiced what he preaches. Let him dismiss all of the armed police officers around him, depending instead on the same protection the rest of the people have. He, and everyone with him, has a cell phone. If there is a problem he can call 911, and the police will be there soon.

Comment by Caleb White on January 17, 2013 at 1:55pm: @ Doug: It does apply for our off -duty weapons, but if you don't carry an off duty, then your only other weapon to carry off duty would be your duty weapon. Ours is the Smith & Wesson M&P 40 that has a magazine capacity as you know, of 15 in the mag one in the chamber. I can tell you that no cop I know of here is going to carry only 7 rounds. The cops in this state just won't comply. No one is going to listen to that nonsense. It was foolish of the state assembly to actually believe that. This wasn't thought through carefully, especially when you are drafting up something like this the night before its signed into law. Of course on the Sean Hannity show yesterday, he raised that issue with one of our state assemblymen he had on as a guest, and the assemblyman said that on that point regarding Law Enforcement Officers, it would be clarified. Of course!! They realized that they made an error on that. But again, thats what happens when you rush these things in order to say "Look at us, we have the strongest gun laws in the nation."

Comment by Doug Nicholson on January 17, 2013 at 2:47am: Don't forget National Gun Appreciation Day, January 19, 2013. This is the day that we're going to show the "gun grabbers" just what they're up against, ala "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day". Just show up at your local gun store, range or gun show with your Constitution, American flags and "Hands Off Our Guns" signs. That's all there is to it. It should make headlines even more than "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day".

Comment by Doug Nicholson on January 17, 2013 at 2:32am: @ Caleb White: As a cop in NY state, how do you feel being limited to no more than 7 round magazines for your duty weapon? Do you think your fellow officers will abide by the law or switch mags as soon as their supervisors are out of sight? I know what I'd have done if I were still on the job (even though I was in VA).

Comment by martha conner on January 16, 2013 at 7:37pm: CUMO YOU ARENT EVEN worth responding to,.

Comment by KathleenSt on January 16, 2013 at 3:08pm: NYS Senator Kathy Marchione,republican, one of the good guys, has a petition to repeal the bill. Feel free to sign:

http://www.nysenate.gov/webform/stand-second-amendment-standing-new...

Comment by KathleenSt on January 16, 2013 at 3:07pm: Cuomolot, formerly known as NYS, is a hellhole.

What problem does his bill solve?

NYS has a bunch of republicrats/democans and 18 republicans.

Sucks living here.

Comment by Rich Knoch on January 16, 2013 at 2:17pm: Address the cause of these shootings; i.e., licit and illicit drug use combined with obsessive violent video game playing and compounded by access to weapons they seem to be fixated on . . . . .

This description also happens to describe many of our elected and appointed inner-belt-dwellers.

Is there a common thread between these two groups (Domestic Terrorists and inner-belt-dwellers)?