NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Mayor Adams and Governor Hochul blasted the Supreme Court’s decision to allow New Yorkers to carry a concealed weapon.
Join our WhatsApp groupSubscribe to our Daily Roundup Email
Adams said: “We cannot allow New York to become the Wild West.”
I have some bad news for the Mayor. New York ALREADY is the Wild West, except for one thing – in the Wild West, good guys were allowed to carry guns too.
Gun violence in New York is raging out of control. And that was BEFORE the Supreme Court ruling. That’s because criminals, gang members, mass shooters, and drug dealers don’t ask for a concealed carry permit. Nor do they obtain a gun license. They don’t care about the law.
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE LATEST YAAKOV M PODCAST
Let me be clear: This is New York. We don't back down, we fight back.
New York is still home to the strongest gun laws in the country & I'll keep doing everything in my power to keep New Yorkers safe. pic.twitter.com/4yC4qmgVxV
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) June 23, 2022
Think about this. The Buffalo mass shooter did not have a concealed carry permit. Neither did the subway shooter, nor the man who committed a mass shooting in Harlem this past week.
Clearly that law does not prevent mass shootings, or many shootings at all, other than an occasional domestic dispute or road rage incident. Because criminals don’t obtain permits. They just shoot.
This is not a theoretical question, where we can debate the efficacy of a future gun law that is being debated.
This law already exists, and it clearly does not work.
Most shootings in New York are committed by career criminals including gang members, thugs, and druggies. Do you think they carry guns legally? Does the drug dealer say to himself, “I better not bring my gun out today. I don’t have a concealed carry permit.”
Not to mention, New York laws already make it impossible for criminals to obtain guns legally. Which means that the laws already in place are not working.
So the feigned outrage by the left, claiming the Supreme Court decision will contribute to more crime, is extremely disingenuous.
The Supreme Court is not the problem. The problem is the woke policies of Adams, Governor Hochul, and DA Alvin Bragg. Criminals have been taught that they can shoot people and get away with it.
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE LATEST YAAKOV M PODCAST
Under Adams, New York City has seen a historic surge in violent crime, up 25.8% compared to last year.
It is ludicrous for the mayor of a city with skyrocketing gun violence to lecture the Supreme Court on how to prevent crime. The same with Hochul, whose no-cash-bail policy has been a disaster.
The fact is, the law only says that someone who can LEGALLY own a gun is allowed to carry it. New York can still make it extremely tough for people to purchase a gun in the first place.
As quoted in Reuters–“Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh in a concurring opinion said states can still impose requirements on people seeking licenses to carry firearms including fingerprinting, background checks, mental health checks and firearms training classes.”
“In another concurring opinion, conservative Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the court has said “nothing about who may lawfully possess a firearm or the requirements that must be met to buy a gun. Nor does it decide anything about the kinds of weapons that people may possess.”
Alito disputed that gun regulations like the one in New York would deter mass shootings, mentioning the recent Buffalo massacre.
“The New York law at issue in this case obviously did not stop that perpetrator,” Alito wrote.
In addition, it should be mentioned that this historic ruling (and several others) are a direct result of President Trump, who placed three staunch conservatives on the bench, despite massive opposition by the left.
As usual, the left is using a decision which upholds the constitution, and is not controversial, as a pretext to use phony rhetoric to anger its base and stir up conflict. And the media eagerly soaks it up.
It’s a big distraction, a smokescreen, and sadly, the real culprits behind the massive surge in crime are the very Democrats who pretend that they are the good guys.
Yaakov M is a senior columnist for VIN News and former Op-Ed columnist for Newsmax. He has hosted a conservative podcast for 15 years. He studied in Kollel for 14 years, was a Bais Medrash Rebbi for over a decade, and obtained semicha from a top Rosh Yeshiva.
If you’re tired of the fake news media, you will love this podcast.
The askans pushed Adams and now Hochul , the whole lot of mosdos machers. We need to stop listening and vote GOP. We can’t walk the streets.
Very well written. Thank you Reb Yaakov
But the a$$$$kanim told us he’s for us they surely have the klal$$ intere$$$t and not their own
Start to enforce the law against un lawful guns and usage. Restart stop and frisk And yes give the cops back their power to act.
Empty promises empty results!!! Step down mr mayor!!! Stand strong with nypd and support them all the way .
I love this article, well said sir.
Problem is we’re stuck with this Wild West mayor for another 3 1/2 years, at least and the governor of the Wild West looks like a shoo in to win the governor’s race.
In New York you’re damned if you vote and damned if you don’t vote, either way any decent candidate DOESN’T stand a chance to win, here, in the WILD WEST !!!
All the askanim are now on vacation but they’ll meet again in a expensive hotel over Thanksgiving weekend for the aguda convention
We should ban all guns because gun’s kill people and if we ban gun’s then gun’s will stop killing People.
We shouldn’t ban abortions because women still keep getting abortions but it’ll be back alley abortions which are dangerous
Something like that. I think.
Former police officer Adams has already reversed deblasio policies and CRIME IN NY HAS DROPPED. 1000 guns off the streets in a buy-back yesterday. Shootings & murder DOWN. I suggest frum move to maga Oklahoma where they will be welcomed by GOPQ.
It is not Adam’s fault. It is the fault of the woke, liberal legislators and politicians in Albany who keep voting to stop giving putting criminals away on bail, so criminals are freely walking in the streets after they commit crimes. Adams is powerless to stop this since the legislators do not want to change the law. He keeps putting more police on the streets, but whenever they arrest a criminal, the courts have to release him because they are not allowed to arrest him and keep him in prison on bail.
The Supreme Court did the right thing constitutionally, but it will be a disaster in NYC.