Readers dissent from The Submit's editorial on the upcoming Supreme Courtroom ruling on New York's gun legal guidelines.
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The Concern: The Submit editorial on the upcoming Supreme Courtroom determination on New York’s gun legal guidelines.
The Supreme Courtroom must free New York Metropolis residents to personal weapons to guard themselves and their neighbors (“Supreme Menace to NY,” Editorial, Might 1).
When gun legal guidelines usually are not enforced with stop-and-frisk, each felony can really feel protected in carrying a gun with no danger of arrest.
And when law-abiding residents are disarmed by political fiat, criminals can really feel protected in pulling out their weapons and capturing, protected within the information that the various law-abiding residents round can’t cease the shooter.
The actual-world impression of New York Metropolis’s gun-control legal guidelines is to place the 99% of law-abiding residents at far better danger and encourage the 1% felony component to proceed to terrorize us.
Dao Sung, Queens
I had simply completed studying your article, “Anguish as man is shot useless on UWS” (Might 2) earlier than studying the editorial “Supreme Menace to NY.”
It was juxtaposition outlined. The younger man gunned down a block from the twenty fourth Precinct was defenseless exactly as a result of it's so troublesome to legally carry a firearm in New York Metropolis.
The Editorial Board urges the court docket to let New York shield itself. I recommend readers could be higher served in case your opinion was that New Yorkers be allowed to guard themselves.
Paul Stelmaszyk
Selkirk
Sufficient with the pointless hysterics over what the Supreme Courtroom could rule regarding New York’s silly gun legal guidelines.
These legal guidelines solely prevented law-abiding residents from getting a gun lawfully. These legal guidelines by no means cease criminals. If historical past has proven us something, it’s that gun management has not, doesn't and can by no means work.
The Heller determination proved that the Second Modification is a proper for all people. We must always not need to ask the federal government for permission to guard ourselves.
If we now have realized something from the final two years — with all of the Black Lives Matter nonsense, defund-the-police rhetoric and elimination of bail legal guidelines — it’s that the federal government can not and won't shield us. So we should do it ourselves.
Anthony Calabria
Staten Island
I typically agree with most of The Submit’s editorials — or their essence — however you couldn’t be extra incorrect about “affordable gun management.”
New York Metropolis is a not a large number due to firearms. It’s a crime-ridden hellhole on account of “woke” politics. From no bail to fairness to anti-prosecution prosecutors, the town has reached the purpose the place nobody is liable for their actions. Violence is excused, condoned and continuously supported.
In The Submit’s personal articles about violent crime in New York Metropolis, nearly each suspect arrested for gun crimes has a prolonged arrest historical past of crimes of violence. These suspects have been seldom imprisoned for any size of time for earlier offenses.
Had they been stored off the road, their crime streaks would have ended. New York Metropolis wants a change in perspective about crime earlier than gun crimes will diminish.
Michael Smallman
Waterport
The Submit editorial was a disappointing piece coming from one of the vital revered conservative voices within the nation.
New York Metropolis is already defenseless, because of the federal government’s pro-criminal and anti-gun legal guidelines and insurance policies.
When was the final time we heard a few “good man with a gun” in New York Metropolis? It doesn’t occur, as a result of it seems that in New York Metropolis, solely the elite and criminals can have weapons. Everybody else can solely function sitting geese.
When Frank James opened hearth on the Brooklyn subway, no one fired again at him. The one factor that stopped him was a jammed gun.
If something, a ruling by the Supreme Courtroom placing down the New York legislation will most likely depart New York higher defended.
Xiaoming Wu
Palatine, Sick.
“The precise of the individuals to maintain and bear arms shall not be infringed” doesn’t imply “shall completely be infringed as a result of The Submit doesn’t like too many weapons round.”
Tzvi S. Cohen
Beit Shemesh, Israel
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