New York Gov. Kathy Hochul doesn’t like the right to keep and bear arms. She doesn’t understand it, doesn’t care to understand it, and just wants to restrict it because she’s part of the misguided group in this country that thinks gun control works.
And following a massacre in the largest city in the nation, which just happens to be in her state, she’s trying to leverage that for a nationwide assault weapon ban because the bad guy used one.
Unsurprising, really. This is the typical playbook of the anti-gun politician.
However, Larry Keane of the National Shooting Sports Foundation isn’t interested in letting Hochul’s demands go unchallenged.
New York’s Gov. Kathy Hochul is apparently taking her cues from Rahm Emmanuel these days. At least when it comes to gun control demands.
Emmanuel, is of course, former Ambassador Emmanuel, who served as America’s top diplomat to Japan and former Mayor of Chicago. Previous to that, he was Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama, and was also the architect of President Bill Clinton’s gun control agenda. Emmanuel was also a U.S. Representative in Congress. It was during that stint that he infamously said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” in 2008 when a financial crisis gripped the United States and Emmanuel used it to push ideological policies that might have been unthinkable outside of the calamity.
Following the heinous murders by a deranged individual in a Manhattan office building, Gov. Hochul demanded that AR-15s, which she purposefully mislabels and derides as “assault weapons,” must be banned from ownership by law-abiding citizens across the nation. She pointed to New York’s onerous gun control laws as the example.
“The killer used an AR-15–style assault rifle. The same weapon of war used in mass shootings across America,” said Gov. Hochul in a statement. “New York has some of the strongest gun laws in the nation. We banned assault weapons. We strengthened our Red Flag Law. We closed dangerous loopholes. But our laws only go so far when an AR-15 can be obtained in a state with weak gun laws and brought into New York to commit mass murder.”
Gov. Hochul’s protestations, though, reveal the folly in her argument. New York has strict gun control laws. None of them, however, stopped a murderer intent on committing unthinkable and sickening acts of violence from carrying out his crimes. New York’s laws only leave law-abiding citizens defenseless against such individuals who have no respect for gun control laws or human life.
Hochul’s argument essentially stems from the fact that she knows her state’s gun control laws don’t actually work on bad actors who will break them. She has to tacitly acknowledge that if a gun can be obtained easily in another state, then those firearms will end up in her state, no matter what laws there are on the books.
In this case, the state’s assault weapon ban doesn’t actually stop anyone who wants to get a gun in another state and bring it across state lines into New York.
But so-called assault weapons aren’t really the problem many people think. They make headlines and are used in more mass casualty attacks these days than in the past, but they’re not the real issue.
As Keane notes, there are a lot of unbannable weapons that kill more people than all rifles combined, not just AR-15s and similar firearms. Those “unbannable” weapons, as I think of them, are things like knives, feet, and clubs. Since knives are essential for cooking, and clubs can range from a weapon particularly crafted to bludgeon someone to death, all the way to a hefty stick.
And feet?
Actually, I wouldn’t put it past someone like Hochul to try to ban feet, now that I think about it.
The truth is that Hochul knows her laws don’t do anything to criminals, but she has to punt the blame or else people in her state might figure out that the line of BS that’s been foisted on them is just that, BS.
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