BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – A federal judge has temporarily blocked the part of a New York law that makes it a crime for people to carry guns in places of worship.
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The ruling filed Thursday sided with two Buffalo-area clerics joined by two gun rights organizations that had sought a temporary restraining order. New York lawmakers rewrote the state’s gun laws last summer after the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the state’s old system of granting permits to carry handguns outside the home.
Among the provisions of the new law was a ban on guns in places of worship and other locations deemed “sensitive.”
The two sides are scheduled to argue the matter in court next month.
It’s a beautiful day, ladies and gentlemen. B.H. Once in awhile we still see life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness shining through.
the idea of a shootout in a shul is crazy. the naive belief that an untrained gun owner can defeat a heavily armed, determined murderer, without causing collateral damage, only happens in the movies.
but… this legislation is totally foolish in so far as it makes places of worship into “easy targets”. there is no need for such a law, since it only puts restrictions on the victims, not the criminals, who have no intention of adhering to it.
Blatantly unconstitutional, as well as extremely dangerous. Perhaps a nationwide ban on guns, backed up by some serious enforcement, could prevent shootings (though it would be extremely unethical and also dangerous, leading people to be unable to kill dangerous animals, and stopping farmers from having pork for dinner), but having a specific area designated as a gun free zone is basically designating it a sitting duck zone.
In this way, if the chazzan or the Rav drags on too long, we can always shoot ourselves.
Anyid is not supposed to be mchalel shabbos carrying a gun, on the weak excused that something happened, two years ago, in another city hundreds of miles away. Also, a yid who is willing to be mechalel shabbos with a gun, because he feels “cool” with a deadly toy, is never going to be as reliable as a goy retired (sometimes current) police officer hired to guard the shul. That’s the only way to go.
I get why fellow yidden want to protect yourselves but 2 things still don’t sit right.