I dont' need a gun. My friends don't own guns.

We have effective police protection. Crime in New York is very low, and has been for years. Why? Because we don't have guns.

The guns that come here illegally are usually from gun-friendly states like Arizona, where the murder rate is higher than New York. To add insult to injury, the gun-nuts tell us that we have to arm ourselves to protect our lives and property against gun-toting criminals that got their weapons in the first place from the communities where they reside!

These are the facts. New York is safe, and we're not going to run around packing heat like it's a frontier city, the Wild West, or a scene of urban decay and dangar - because it's not. If it gets like that, I'll reconsider my decision. For now, it's more dangerous to have a gun in NYC than not.