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.
