Tag: New York City

The New Intolerable Acts

Prosecutors Agree He Shot a Man in Self-Defense. They’re Still Trying To Put Him in Prison. LaShawn Craig may spend years behind bars—because the gun he used to justifiably shoot someone was unlicensed. [More]

You know who agrees with that?

Every goddam gun owner and “gun rights leader” who says “Enforce existing gun laws.”

[Via Michael G]

We’re the Only Ones Cowardly Enough

An NYPD officer caught on video standing by and watching as a lieutenant was ruthlessly beaten on a subway car by two men in the Bronx was put on desk duty and had his gun taken away, officials said. [More]

What about repercussions when they let worse happen to “civilians”? Anything ever happen to Terrence Howell, who took credit for a takedown he hid from while a citizen with the fighting skills to ultimately prevail was being stabbed?

With the Coward of Broward and Uvalde, and with citizens being arrested tor getting involved to protect others, who in their right mind would Back the Yellow?

[Via Michael G]

No Charge!

The Brooklyn District Attorney had “no choice but to dismiss” Council Member Inna Vernikov’s weapons charge given her gun was “inoperable” … The council member’s charge, criminal possession of a firearm, requires the weapon in question be “capable of firing bullets” — meaning Vernikov’s charges wouldn’t stand, according to the District Attorney’s office. [More]

So New Yorkers can have 80% receivers now…?

Or more likely, they were politically afraid to p!$$ off the wrong group of NY political power players…

A Matter of Optics

And I’ve never once seen a desk appearance issued on a gun possession case. Not once.” Usually, the defendant would be processed and arraigned immediately at the courthouse. [More]

Disarming Jews when people want to exterminate them creates an image problem the Democrats are desperate to contain. If only she’d been a Christian…

[Via Jess]

A New York State of Mind

New York man who saved woman from subway mugging by scaring off would-be robber with warning shot arrested [More]

The only question here is who’s the more execrable tyrant functionary: Richard “We don’t tolerate this kind of conduct in NYC Transit, period” Davies or Jerry “The defendant was on the street with a loaded, unlicensed gun“ Iannece?

The state can’t protect you and will punish you for protecting yourself or others.

Who would consent to be governed by that?

We’re the Only Ones Breaking Bad Enough

An NYPD cop and her boyfriend were arrested Thursday on federal narcotics distribution charges and related conspiracy counts for selling more than a kilo of heroin and nearly a pound of fentanyl to a confidential source working for the FBI. [More]

And up until the time she was arrested, she was legally empowered to arrest you for being armed where the city dictated you could not be.

[Via bondmen]

Dressed for Success?

Jewish NYC Councilwoman Inna Vernikov arrested for carrying gun at pro-Palestinian rally [More]

She’d have been nuts to go without one. Some would say she’d have been nuts to go at all. Because even if you defend yourself from the mob, you can have a bigger mob to contend with — especially in a “blue” city.

She certainly wasn’t very cautious. Might she be trying to establish standing for a challenge?

And how come she rates a permit but most New Yorkers don’t?

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