You could tell the mayor was clearly flabbergasted.
“We’ve worked so hard to get guns out of the hands…”
A flummoxed Mayor Bill DeBlasio appeared to have indigestion at the idea that he could somehow be overruled on his narrow view of guns.
The mayor of New York was more or less going full 'woke' on the suggestion that the Supreme Court of the United States had announced that it will proceed on hearing a case that amongst other outcomes could produce a ruling on the constitutional right of every law-abiding American to own and carry a gun.
Of course, the Constitution already guarantees those two specific ideas. But Americans have been inundated with political agendas that would remove such rights by state and local politicians for some time.
It was the Heller decision that reaffirmed the constitutional language reasserting that the second amendment does not refer to government, militias, or collectives, but rather the individual. Many have wondered how long it would take for the Supreme Court to hear a challenge for the logical next step: the right to “bear” the arms that Heller established their right to “keep.”
The mayor went on to decry that SCOTUS was trying to “put guns back into the hands” of New Yorkers.
To everyone in the normal universe you have to just calmly smile at the mayor and more or less ignore everything he says. Because he’s dishonest and “kinda nuts.”
He blamed NYC’s shooting, crime, and murder increases under his watch as somehow the fault of almost any other mystery source other than his own and NY State’s malfeasance.
The assembly passed and the governor signed a “bail reform” law that is more or less a literal get-out-of-jail-free card. The same combined efforts of DeBlasio and Cuomo have made up new rules about how much and what kind of force law enforcement may use when attempting to restrain even violent criminals—before they themselves can be arrested. And DeBlasio himself did away with the famous Anti-Crime unit from the NYPD whose primary purpose was to be the baddest plainclothes cops ever seen, penetrating crime rings and street gangs and seizing guns from criminals.
Despite those three (and many more) causes of the huge crime spike, the left attempts to blame lawful gun owners for incidents like the shooting in Times Square two weeks ago in which a criminal, had an illegal gun, and attempted to commit murder. The three victims (all of whom survived) were sitting ducks for the bad behavior of a person DeBlasio should’ve had locked up on an island prison somewhere.
It’s just because of this public policy recklessness that during CoVid Americans bought more guns than ever before: more than 17 million in 2020, and a pace in 2021 that might meet or exceed that.
If the left’s idea that “guns in the hands” of everyday law-abiding citizens were the threat to safety that they claim, then surely we would see a comparative jump in gun deaths right?
But we haven’t.
From 2014-2020 the US has averaged 14,000 gun homicides. And in 2021 we are tracking at about 2,000 fewer deaths (behind pace) than in 2020. Nearing the midway point of the year we are just a tad over 7,000 homicides.
By comparison to homicides, automobiles take 35-45k lives each year. And more than 200k people die each year in hospitals due to mistakes and malfeasance—in other words: not for the reasons they were admitted.
In the McCullough household, we did our part, since Christmas of 2019 we’ve expanded our inventory by a variety of firepower (a .22 cal rifle and 9mm handguns mostly.) I’ve also got my eye on a new AR15 along with possibly a Mossburg single shot 12 gauge that will blow your entire front door down.
We also believe in instructing our little ones in gun safety from the earliest ages and have plans to upgrade my solo membership at the local range to the family plan.
The left would have you believe that the mere ownership of such guns is a “tragedy” and a danger to the society around us.
But I take the protection of my family seriously.
And when reckless public officials create an environment where violent crime increased year over year to the tune of 400%, I’ve lost any confidence that they even know what to do much less have any clue of how to do it.
The Supreme Court re-affirming the assertion that law-abiding citizens should have the unencumbered right to keep and bear what is needed to protect themselves and their loved ones will signal to criminals and violent thugs that the chances of someone shooting them—I believe—will have an immediate impact and incentive in how they plan to proceed.
After all, shouldn’t the best reason to carry a gun be the overwhelming statistical reality of never needing to fire it?
But that never comes about if you take it from my hands.
And you never will!