https://gothamist.com/news/at-least-23-people-were-shot-in-new-york-city-over-3-day-period?br=1
AND THIS IS WHILE HOCHUL’S GUN-FREE ZONES WERE IN FULL EFFECT AND EFFECTIVELY ALL GUNS IN NYC WERE BANNED!
GUN CONTROL DOES NOT WORK. The majority of guns used by criminals are bought on the black market - criminals do not obey laws. The last several terror attacks in Europe & the UK involved someone driving a van or another vehicle into a crowd, killing many people. The point is evil will find a way and if someone wants to kill someone they will find a way. Guns are illegal in France and yet 150 people died in a terrorist shooting in Paris. Chicago has the strongest gun control laws in the land and yet they have the highest number of shootings - over 5,000 last year alone (BTW WHERE IS THE LIBERAL AND MEDIA FAUX OUTRAGE THERE?? - and no the guns didn't come from out of state or another city, as the surrounding cities and states don't have nearly the same level of shootings as Chicago, in fact they have almost none), with NYC having the second highest number of shootings and NY has gun control laws almost as stringent as Chicago. Similarly, London, in which guns have been banned, just exceeded NYC's murder rate as they have seen an escalation of killings - SINCE THE BANNING OF GUNS, largely by knives. Australia – in which guns are illegal - recently had a school shooting in which 10 people were killed, 4 of which were children. In Japan – in which ALL GUNS ARE ILLEGAL – the Prime Minister was recently shot to death in broad daylight in public! Conversely, Switzerland has an incredibly high rate of gun ownership and practically zero mass shootings. Gun control doesn't work.
The solution is to INCREASE POLICE – not defund them - and allow them to do their job, while also putting bail back in place. It is no coincidence that the cities with the worst crime rates are all democrat run, have defunded and reduced the police, and removed bail, such that the few times the police are actually able to do their job the few criminals they actually capture are allowed back on the street the same day. In NYC, 85% of the crimes committed are by those who were arrested in the previous two weeks, but were let back on the street as a result of the fact that there is no bail. And btw, all these massive increases in crime occurred while each of these cities with the highest crime rates implemented the most stringent gun control laws in the country – in fact over the past few years (prior the point that crime has increased so precipitously), these cities’ respective gun laws have actually become more stringent. Proof once again, that gun control does not work.