Mr. Conservative – by Warner Todd Huston
Like most Democrat-controlled, big cities, New York City has one of the most stringent gun-control schemes in America. But this heavy emphasis on banning guns has not stopped a recent rise in murders in the Big Apple.
Over a 48 hour period between June 11 to June 13 25 people were killed with firearms in New York. Victims were from all over the city. In fact, the only part of the city that didn’t experience a shooting over the 48-hour period was Staten Island!
Eight were shot in the Bronx, four in Queens, one in Manhattan, and a whopping twelve in Brooklyn. The fellow killed in Manhattan was shot during the day amongst a crowd of people.
(Read More: Group of Thugs Attack Woman… Only She Had Been Frequenting The Gun Range…)
But notice that New York’s “Safe Gun Act” hasn’t really done much to stop crimes committed with guns. It may have stopped law-abiding citizens from being able to respond to life-threatening attacks with their ownguns, of course.
Due to the anti-gun laws, it is practically impossible for law-abiding citizens to get guns for themselves. But, oh, boy do the crooks have them. According to news reports 100 percent of this gun crime spree was perpetrated with guns held illegally in criminal hands.
Notice that hundreds in not thousands of crimes every year are stopped by legal gun owners. Take the woman in California that stopped a home invasion with her firearm. Or the Florida business owner who cornered and captured a crook in his store. Or the boy that used a gun to save his father’s life.
These are the life-saving events that New York’s Democrats will put an end to and murders will increase because of it.
With Democrats succeeding in banning guns we get idiotic and dangerous situations like the 9/11 operator that told a woman being raped to kindly ask her rapist to just leave.
The good news is, though, that this is still a drop in murder rates over last year. This is true across the country, actually. And every state (including New York) no have concealed carry in some form or fashion–except Illinois which is just about to put one in place. We have more guns than ever in the hands of law-abiding citizens and crime has dropped.
(Read More: Robbers Forcefully Shove Man Into His Closet, Where He Kept His Guns……….)
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NYC breaks yet another gun-murder record, with Brooklyn leading the charge. (Go Brooklyn!!) How many cops did you get?
And where is their illustrious mayor while all this mayhem unfolds? He’s probably in a sleepy little mid-west town telling people they should fight crime by following NYC’s gun control example.
While he sleeps with a .45 under his pillow.
and plenty bodyguards with ak’s.
It ought to be a requirement in gun violence reporting to specifically mention whether it was drug war-related or not. My bet is at least half of these 25 murders is gang/drug related. This kind of violence really took off during alcohol prohibition, which resulted in this nation’s first serious gun control law in 1935. Drug war violence has steadily been rising since Nixon declared the war. Just for a mental exercise, imagine the results if we made tobacco illegal…….. the blood would run in the streets as gangs fought for control of the black market in cigarettes.
Rahm is fit to be tied. How DARE NY challenge Chicago’s supremacy in the gun murders realm.
I thought Angel would check in on this one for sure.
LOL
Haven’t been around (another lovely all-day affair at the VA Hosp.)
Last couple days, the big stories have been “Newtown Families” and the hunt for the passenger who killed a cab driver with an umbrella (stabbed through the eye)
Next, Bloomie will pass a law that says “only compact, flat tipped umbrellas are allowed in NYC.”
Do they know what caliber umbrella it was? 🙂
Mary Poppins.
🙂