How effective are laws are in controlling criminals...

After a fellow officer was killed in Houston, I heard this report from NY. I noticed something from this incident.

Ambushed NY firemen shot dead; 2 police killed elsewhere


Gunman kills two firefighters in upstate New York

(Reuters) - A gunman who spent 17 years in prison for murder ambushed and killed two volunteer firefighters and wounded two others on Monday near Rochester, New York, as they responded to a house fire he deliberately set, police said.

William Spangler, 62, shot and killed himself after a gunfight with a police officer in Webster, a Rochester suburb, Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering said.

"It was a trap set by Mr. Spangler, who laid in wait and shot first responders," Pickering told a news conference...

...Spangler was convicted of manslaughter in 1981 for beating his 92-year-old grandmother to death with a hammer, according to New York State Department of Corrections records, and after prison he spent eight years on parole....

...Spangler opened fire around 5:45 a.m. after two of the firefighters arrived at the house in a fire truck and two others responded in their own cars, Pickering said....

...Four houses were destroyed by the fire and four were damaged, Pickering said.

The article brings in a the murder of two officers (one in Houston, one in Wisconsin) on December 24. The suspect in the Houston murder has been arrested and is at least been arrested for theft while the Wisconsin killer is still unknown. Now one thing I will bring up about this POS who assassinated the firemen in NY. He was a convicted felon. By law, he cannot possess a firearm. So telling someone "you can't have a gun" means only the already law abiding will comply. The current criminal element will do as they always so, keep their guns. Only this time the sheep will not be able to shoot back.

And you can add me to the new criminal element. As Charlton Heston said it best, From My Cold Dead Hands!

Now there is something to add onto this. A couple of days ago a "journal-list" from New York named Dwight Worley decided the first names and addresses of legal gun owners in NY needed to be published so they can be harassed, maybe targeted by criminals, etc. So in the interest of full disclosure, someone was nice enough publish his address:

Merry Christmas Dwight!