Lhota Stands for Gun Rights.

Finding a pro-gun New York politician is hard, but mayoral candidate Joe Lhota is standing up for gun owners:

“The city of New York, though, goes to an extreme with their– bureaucracy is not even strong enough of a word–it’s almost a level of harassment at a certain point, and it needs to change,” Lhota said to a group of Staten Island Tea Party Republicans in April, as seen in video of the speech recently obtained by NY1. “There’s something that should be fair and speedy about being able to get a gun permit,” Lhota added.

….

“People who legitimately need it, it’s getting harder and harder and harder for getting the renewal license, which is required, and it should be required once a year,” he said. “They shouldn’t be making it hard. These are not people with illegal guns.”
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/08/joe-lhota-gun-control-tea-party-new-york-city_n_4063487.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics

Of course, the real issue is why would anyone need a license to buy a keep a gun when the 2nd Amendment is clearly the only license we need? But I know what Lhota is dealing with:

“Bill de Blasio slammed Lhota’s comments as another example of how Lhota sympathizes with far-right Republicans.

“It’s becoming increasingly clear that the more New Yorkers hear from Joe Lhota, the more he reveals himself to be a typical Tea Party politician who is out of touch with New Yorkers,” de Blasio said.”

Sorry Bill de Marxist, but Lhota is right and you’re wrong. If New Yorkers ever realize what the Statue of Liberty really stands for, they’ll vote for  a real American who didn’t spend his college years associating with Marxists in Nicaragua.