BELLEVUE, WA – The tragic and senseless murders of four people in a New York City office building underscores the horribly misguided gun control mindset, which disarms good people and doesn’t stop bad ones, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) stated.
That the crime occurred in the middle of Manhattan’s business district—where local and state law makes it virtually impossible to legally carry a defensive firearm—is even more proof that New York’s policies are literally “dead wrong,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb.
“The murderer drove clear across the country from his home in Nevada to commit a horrible crime that New York anti-gunners said their laws would prevent,” Gottlieb observed. “In the process, he violated laws in New York which were supposed to prevent this sort of outrage, and likewise when he drove through neighboring New Jersey. Did their existing gun laws stop him? They didn’t even slow him down.”
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s immediate call for a ban on so-called “assault weapons” reveals the far left’s single-message myopia when it comes to violent crime: blame the gun, not the criminal. New York already bans semi-auto rifles and magazines, but the prohibition didn’t prevent the killer from carrying out his attack. Anti-gunners simply refuse to understand the glaring flaw in their gun control philosophy.
Gottlieb summed it up by pointing to the remark by former FBI Agent Nicole Parker, appearing on Fox News, who matter-of-factly stated, “Evil people don’t obey gun laws.”
“If it is this easy for a former FBI agent to explain,” Gottlieb wondered, “why don’t Empire State politicians understand such a simple, and indisputable fact? The perpetrator of Monday’s outrage drove two thousand miles, across several states, to commit his crime. He wasn’t going to let New York’s gun control laws get in the way.
“It is time to separate reality from the fantasy world in which gun control proponents seem to thrive,” he said. “They seem to imagine that adding more restrictions on the rights of lawful gun owners will somehow prevent criminals and crazy people from committing violent crimes, and that is a dangerously flawed presumption.
“People now proposing more restrictions on law-abiding citizens,” he said, “apparently learned nothing from Michigan’s Walmart knife attack, which was stopped by a legally-armed private citizen. The difference between good people with guns and politicians who dislike guns is that the politicians exploit tragedies while armed citizens want to prevent tragedies.”
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
Laws only exist to exact punishment AFTER THE FACT. No law has EVER stopped anything and never will.
Dear SS Hauptbereitschaftsl Hochul, et all oath violators, It’s astonishing—even for a New York politician—that you’d have the gall to lecture another state while standing atop the bodies your own laws helped create. The blood spilled in Manhattan isn’t just on the hands of the deranged killer—it’s dripping from yours and every one of your colleagues who spent years crafting a legal minefield that criminalizes self-defense and emboldens predators. You ask how someone from out of state got a gun permit? Here’s a better question: How did the State of New York and the City of New York create the… Read more »
Laws don’t prevent people from breaking the law, they just add to the number of crimes that a person commits when they break the law. That doesn’t do anything to reduce crime, neither does it do anything when the perp is dead afterwards.
guy walked down street carrying openly ,who is going to stop him ,cop and security guard got shot for their trouble, if there were more ccws guy would have been shot dead much sooner
The part liberal gun control clowns do not get is words on paper mean nothing to criminals .
It annoys me that gottlieb treats it as though any of these politicians believe what they’re saying in the first place. The actual goal is normalizing whatever gun control they are pushing at any second, so that the next generation will find these infringements they grew up with to be “common sense,” and allow/usher in the next incremental infringements.
Alan Gottlieb/SAF likes universal background checks,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oRWMxfTcfs