Posted on 09/05/2022 9:17:07 AM PDT by John Semmens
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) instituted a raft of new gun control regulations including designating Times Square in New York City as a giant gun-free zone. National Rifle Association (NRA) spokeswoman Dana Loesch correctly pointed out that "criminals who depend on guns to commit robberies, rapes, and murders aren't going to obey these restrictions. That's why most mass shootings occur in gun-free zones. A policy that would yield better results is lessening the barriers to citizens arming themselves."
Hochul rejected "the erroneous notion that good guys with guns can stop a bad guy with a gun. If heavily armed and well-trained police forces can't stop these massacres how can a lone civilian carrying a concealed handgun possibly succeed? It's insane to think that they could. Good Samaritan stories are just rare freak occurrences. They are not a foundation for building a safer society. Only complete gun confiscation can do that."
Loesch called Hochul's reasoning "fatally flawed. There's a famous aphorism that says 'when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.' Police can't be everywhere and even if they are on the scene of a mass shooting, as they were in Uvaldi, their protocols can prevent them from taking effective action."
"An armed citizen can defend himself and others," Loesch argued. "A concealed carrier stopped a mass shooter in Indiana's Greenwood Park Mall on July 17. On August 9, a man threatened to shoot into a crowd in West Palm Beach, Florida, but an armed citizen shot him before he could kill anyone. Instead of posting signs alerting criminals to the fact that their intended victims are unarmed, Gov. Hochul should opt for 'constitutional carry' and then post signs saying 'one out of every three citizens in our state is authorized to carry concealed firearms.' Such a policy would do a lot more to reduce gun violence."
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I looked and found no satire.....
This proves democrats should be banned from holding any office. Period. Full stop.
Yeah. Only street hoods should be able to carry - disarm cops because they randomly shoot people and the military is too woke.
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