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Cuomo to exempt police from gun ban:

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office is working on amendments to clarify the newly passed gun-control law, following complaints that it did not explicitly exempt police officers from a ban on high-capacity magazines.

The state law bans magazines over seven rounds — police officers typically use magazines that hold twice as many bullets. Critics of the law claimed the alleged oversight was a product of the haste with which the package was passed through the legislature.

“This could have been avoided,” Republican Assemblyman Al Graf told FoxNews.com.

However, Cuomo’s office insists police officers are still exempt.

“Police officers possessing ammunition clip with more than seven bullets are not in violation of this law and they never will be, period,” Cuomo spokesman Matthew Wing said.

They keep banning guns and magazines in the name of safety, and claim that certain guns are only useful in violent crimes. Yet police get to own them. What use to police have for them? If you say to fight back against heavily armed criminals. First, how common is that? And Second, why do we have SWAT teams with full military hardware?

The real answer is that police carry guns for the same reason everybody else does. To protect themselves, and others around them. In the event they’re facing a serious fire-fight their sidearms and rifles are to protect themselves until the SWAT team can arrive.

If these are “Weapons of War” that need to be taken off our streets, why are the anti-gun people putting them specifically on the street?

You don’t need a gun!

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas 911 operator did not enter a call into a computer system that would have notified police and fire dispatchers of a mother and son trapped inside a vehicle in a pond, authorities said Wednesday. The woman died hours later, and her 5-year-old son was in critical condition Wednesday, police said.

The Little Rock operator who handled the call from 39-year-old Jinglei Yi has been placed on paid administrative leave while authorities try to figure out what happened. The operator has not been charged with any wrongdoing.

Yi called 911 about 8 a.m. Monday after her vehicle hit a patch of ice, went over a curb and ended up in the pond, Police Department spokeswoman Sgt. Cassandra Davis said. A county dispatcher transferred the call to the 911 operator, who spoke with Yi briefly before hanging up and contacting an ambulance service.

An ambulance was dispatched a few minutes later to the west Little Rock pond, but police officers and firefighters weren’t dispatched until about a half-hour later — after the ambulance service called to verify that they were en route.

Really its turning out more-and-more the calling 911 in a time of need is rolling the dice. There are countless stories like this. This is why I carry a gun, because while I appreciate that the cops are here to help, and we have a 911 service, the only person you can depend on for your safety is yourself.