Speedo66
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Article in the NY Times about a shooting in NYC where police determined 13 different guns were involved. In the article they wonder how much impact the new permit decision from the SC will have on crime in NYC.
Surprisingly, they asked an expert for his opinion, and actually published it. I have a feeling many staff members there weren't happy with the result.
From the article:
"There has been not been a rush of gun permit applications in the city since the Supreme Court ruling, largely because the State Legislature passed a new round of gun safety measures that are likely to blunt the ruling’s impact in New York. It is unclear what the effect of more legal guns within the city borders will be on crime. None, some experts say.
“It won’t have any direct impact, period, on the number of guns in New York City,” Warren Eller, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said. “Legal firearms have very little do with the problems we have in New York.”
Now if only the powers that be and the media would heed the experts, rather than scream the sky is falling.
Another professor, this time from UCLA, laments that with the new permits police will now not only have to determine if someone is carrying a gun, but if it's legal. Hasn't that always been their job in NYC?
Here's the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/09/nyregion/ny-guns-shootings.html
Surprisingly, they asked an expert for his opinion, and actually published it. I have a feeling many staff members there weren't happy with the result.
From the article:
"There has been not been a rush of gun permit applications in the city since the Supreme Court ruling, largely because the State Legislature passed a new round of gun safety measures that are likely to blunt the ruling’s impact in New York. It is unclear what the effect of more legal guns within the city borders will be on crime. None, some experts say.
“It won’t have any direct impact, period, on the number of guns in New York City,” Warren Eller, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said. “Legal firearms have very little do with the problems we have in New York.”
Now if only the powers that be and the media would heed the experts, rather than scream the sky is falling.
Another professor, this time from UCLA, laments that with the new permits police will now not only have to determine if someone is carrying a gun, but if it's legal. Hasn't that always been their job in NYC?
Here's the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/09/nyregion/ny-guns-shootings.html