In response to the Supreme Court’s ruling, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) on July 1 signed a law that criminalizes the concealed carry of guns in airports, houses of worship, Times Square and other sensitive places, prompting a swift legal challenge. Gun Owners of America is one of several plaintiffs who are urging a federal judge in Syracuse to block the New York law before it takes effect on Sept. 1. [More]
Not satisfied with a patchwork quilt of “gun-free zones,” Hochul & Co. are going for a Rubik’s Cube.
I see Stephen Stamboulieh got ink.
When the City of Miami Beach in particular, and others in general, proved to the people of Florida that they could not manage a “may issue” system in the public’s interest, the people took that job away from them in 1987 by instituting one of the first “shall issue” systems in modern history.
Note carefully: it took a colossal case of hubris on the part of government for the people to say, “That’s it! Party’s over! We’ll take it from here!”
Something similar happened in the Weyerhaeuser case that spawned a host of “Take Your Guns to Work” laws nationwide.
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/oklahoma-12-fired-from-weyerhaeuser-for-guns-in-cars.113443/
Just what good does Governor Hochul think is going to come from her defiance of the Supreme Court? What was it Jefferson said?
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
The Governor should take heed of how New Yorkers responded, or rather didn’t respond, to the SAFE Act.
‘ That data shows massive noncompliance with the assault weapon registration requirement. Based on an estimate from the National Shooting Sports Federation, about 1 million firearms in New York State meet the law’s assault-weapon criteria, but just 44,000 have been registered. That’s a compliance rate of about 4 percent. Capanna said that the high rate of noncompliance with the law could only be interpreted as a large-scale civil disobedience, given the high level of interest and concern about the law on the part of gun owners.
“It’s not that they aren’t aware of the law,” said Capanna. “The lack of registration is a massive act of civil disobedience by gun owners statewide.” ‘
https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2016/07/07/massive-noncompliance-with-safe-act/
She’s not just risking her job, she might well be risking Democratic Party control of the State of New York. Americans tend to be “live and let live” folks. But woe be unto those who piss them off.
The harder they fight, the harder they’ll fall, and the better off we’ll end up. I guess they never heard the saying: “Quit while you’re ahead.”. If not for these bad laws we wouldn’t have gotten such a great SC ruling.