Attention candidates for mayor!
I hope you read today's Daily News and saw the article which actually tries to teach us about (gasp) ideas being tried by other cities to reduce gun crime. You see, it's ok to learn from what others are doing rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm pretty sure, however, that based on what John Baer wrote about the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the idea of registering gun offenders like we do with sex offenders has little chance of passing.
I do like this one:
Rochester, N.Y., authorities targeted gangs for heavy surveillance, resulting in numerous arrests. Those on probation or parole are required to attend courtroom "call-ins," in which their misdeeds are examined in shame-inducing slide shows in an effort to erase the anonymity that criminals covet.
Sort of like Punk'd meets MSNBC's To Catch a Predator.