1) who said I was applauding this? As I said, I just posted the article. People can make what they want of it.
2) What other rights were taken away from people from NYC? (besides 16 oz soda drinks)
It's a slow erosion. For instance, NYC is slowly moving toward a "Ring of Steel" surveillance monitoring of all the city streets. The Stop and Frisk policy is certain pretty invasive. They made mention a few weeks ago that they're looking into log the IP addresses of city dwellers that visit websites the city finds objectionable, etc.....
Also with this magazine ban, it may not look like much, but it will cause trouble for "regular" gun owners, a huge percentage of sporting handguns use magazines just slightly above 7 rounds. Many lever action hunting rifles built long before "assault weapons" have capacities beyond 7 rounds, etc.....
For instance, these little benign rifles would technically be illegal -
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These too -
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And will it stop street crime?
Nope.