“Safe injection site brings daytime public sex to East Harlem: ‘Getting my own porno show’,” a New York Post Saturday headline reports. “New York City’s controversial, taxpayer-funded ‘safe’ injection site has reached a depraved new low — with addicts so zonked out they routinely have sex in broad daylight, often at the doorstep of neighbors forced to endure the X-rated free-for-all.”
There’s nothing “safe” about it. It’s beyond disgusting. Based on results, such self-destructive degenerates can’t be trusted without a custodian, yet here, they’re not only being tolerated, but they’re also being subsidized.
It’s revealing as to the way Democrats “solve” problems created by their own edicts and policies when they are in total control. They are in this case, you know.
Start with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and the Empire State’s two United States Senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. Then go to New York’s Democrat-dominated State Senate and Assembly, and drill down further for East Harlem, with State Senator Cordell Cleare, State Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat, Mayor Eric Adams, and Council Member Diana Ayala.
Note that the links in the above paragraph all document that the politicians responsible for enabling intolerable conditions are all committed gun prohibitionists, who couch their citizen disarmament demands under the mantle of public safety. That being the case, how safe is it?
“The serious crime rate, including property and violent crime types, was 21.4 serious crimes per 1,000 residents in 2024, compared to 13.6 serious crimes per 1,000 residents citywide,” New York University School of Law’s Furman Center documents. By comparison, “East Harlem’s violent crimes are 264% greater than the national average. Still, East Harlem’s safety is better than that of more than 23% of other New York cities,” real estate brokerage Nest Apple reports.
Those are controlled by anti-gun (for you) Democrats, too.
It’s instructive at this point to recall what Founding Father and second president John Adams declared to the Militia of Massachusetts back in 1798:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
These Democrat rulers don’t care much about the Constitution except how to exploit and pervert it. They rely on the resulting criminal deviancy to amass more power for themselves. And while they are all for abetting more degeneracy in the streets using the lying guise of being humanitarian and champions of civil liberties for the self-destructive, there’s one group of citizens they demand to lock up: Those who agree with Mr. Adams, and who will not comply with Second Amendment infringements the Democrat platform dictates.
It’s instructive to note who the Democrats want to keep on the streets and who they want to forcibly remove from society.
Their gaslighting excuse is that all the woes of their constituents are ultimately blamable on Trump, Republicans, racism, white supremacists, rightwing extremists…
That a Marxist who is running on a plan to continue and accelerate the destructive agenda, and who has gone a step further and flat-out called for banning guns, is a “serious” contender for mayor shows how widespread and dangerous the lunacy has become. And it’s not just New York City.
Take any major urban area in the Republic, the ones with the populations to ultimately control everything (including federal court appointments and reversals of all Second Amendment advances achieved to date) and they all are under Democrat control, and all are increasingly manifesting radicalism reminiscent of nothing so much as Bolshevism. Ditto, it goes without saying, for “Blue States.”
Totalitarians want it all. And if you think East Harlem is a s***hole, wait ‘til you see what they’ll turn your neighborhood into. And don’t overlook that all of this is supported by “commonsense gun safety law” organizations who help elect the politicians doing this to us. They share culpability.
If Republicans manage to blow the midterms, and if that allows Democrats to disrupt things enough to regain the White House in 2028, gun owners who make the decision not to comply with infringements will be in for the fight of their lives.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
I lived just south of East (Spanish) Harlem for 25 years. During the Giuliani and Bloomberg years, I would take the 6 up Lexington and walk over to the 125th St. Metro North station at Park Ave. whenever I needed to travel to Westchester or Connecticut, rather than down to Grand Central and back up.
That ended during the de Blasio administration. He turned 125th into zombieland.
EDIT: It was unfair of me to blame de Blasio alone. It was a team effort by him, the communist City Council, and the voters.
I have less than zero faith in republican’ts to do anything but give ground.. That’s all they do.
Not to sound TOO much like a pessimist but it’s only a matter of time before the degenerates are the voting majority, already do in most big cities.
Flew to Atlanta, rented a truck and moved my granddaughter back to Missouri this week. It was a great reminder why I live in the country.
I hope Zohran Madmani wins and becomes mayor of NYC. This will then show the rest of the country what Socialism and Communism is all about and hopefully even the liberals amongst us will then reject it. I don’t really care what happens in NYC, as I don’t live there and never will. I can only influence what happens in my state, my county, and my city.
Yes, Mr. Codrea, we can all agree that Democrats are at the core of most of our country’s problems. However, here in Kalifornia I just watched twelve of the nineteen ‘Republicans’ in my state’s Assembly, one of them Mike Wallis, whom I voted for based on his platform as a staunch conservative, VOTE FOR the Family Preparedness Plan Act of 2025, a bill that will effectively strip parents of their rights and prevent them from protecting their children from everything from forced medical “treatment”, such as “gender affirming care”, to outright kidnapping. Democrats are the problem, but Republicans are certainly… Read more »
I’d be shocked if Republicans win the mid terms, and the White House again. They’re upsetting their voters! Does anyone think that all the millions of gun owners who are political active (remember MANY are not), are going to vote for Republicans who’ve betrayed them, and to keep the list short and sweet, on 2A issues? Why vote at all when your choice is a “butter”, or an “anti”? And how do we get the many millions of gun owners who aren’t politically active to vote, when their option is a “butter” or an “anti”? The GOP really shot themselves… Read more »