to get his hands on the 139 million emergency funds allocated for the pandemic,
hes declaring access to GUNS a heath risk, the fact the new Yorkers are leaving NY,
in unprecedented numbers due to greatly increased TAXES and burdensome regulations is of course ignored
remember HISTORICALLY IN EVERY COUNTRY<<<<
REGISTRATION. PLUS TIME....
ALWAYS EVENTUALLY LEADS TO CONFISCATION
its NOT ABOUT CRIME!.. ITS ABOUT CONSOLIDATING POWER ,
AND ACCUMULATING VAST AMOUNTS OF CASH
PROSECUTING CRIMINALS,
NOT GUN OWNERSHIP,
IS THE LOGICAL KEY TO REDUCING CRIME!
https://safeact.ny.gov/
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loc...uncement-on-gun-violence-in-new-york/3141332/
https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/here-are-8-stubborn-facts-gun-violence-america
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-...-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/
https://usafacts.org/state-of-the-u...9afWd2DeLajVyU8MV3SWYrx67Nr9H6v8aArP_EALw_wcB
- Gov. Andrew Cuomo has issued the first-in-the-nation Executive Order declaring gun violence in New York as a Disaster Emergency -- the first step in a comprehensive plan that aims to tackle the surge in gun violence throughout the state.
- The disaster emergency status will allow the state to address the gun violence crisis by expediting money and resources to communities so they can begin targeting gun violence immediately.
- Cuomo's announcement comes at a time when the city and the country a as whole are struggling to curtail the uptick in gun violence.
Not long after the coronavirus bore down on New York last year, gun violence surged, rising 75 percent or more in some of the state’s largest cities. But even as the virus receded in recent months, shootings continued to rise.
On Tuesday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo declared a new state of emergency around gun violence and committed almost $139 million to reverse the trend of rising shootings and murders across the state.
The emergency disaster declaration, which the governor said was the first by a state to address gun violence, would allow New York officials to quickly coordinate resources and provide funding for community-led efforts to prevent and respond to shootings.
The governor called gun violence a civil rights injustice that overwhelmingly affects poor, Black and Latino communities, whose youth are three to 10 times as likely as whites to be victims of gun violence, he said. But the governor said the issue is urgent for all New Yorkers because the state cannot rebound from the pandemic without addressing it.
It is a matter of saving lives, and New York’s future depends on it,” Mr. Cuomo said at a news conference at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan. “People are not coming back to this city, they’re not coming back to any city, until they know they are safe.”
Addressing gun violence is usually the province of local police and elected officials. But the governor said the state had to step in to address violence that is now taking a greater toll than the coronavirus. Fifty-one people were shot across New York State over the Fourth of July weekend, compared with 13 who died from Covid-19, he said.
- Dig deeper into the moment.
In New York City, where he spoke, the police recorded more than 1,500 shootings in 2020, nearly almost twice as many as 2019, and the violence so far this year is at its highest level since the early 2000s. Some 886 people have been shot in 765 incidents this year through July 4, according to police statistics. The violence appeared to ease in June, which saw shootings decrease 20 percent from June 2020 — though remaining still well above 2019 levels.
Similar increases in gun violence have occurred in cities like Buffalo and Rochester and villages like Hempstead and Spring Valley, according to state data. The spike in gun play has also driven a rise in homicides across the country, including Portland, Ore., Minneapolis, Philadelphia and Los Angeles.
Nick Suplina, the managing director for law and policy at Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit, said the pandemic led to spikes in shootings that have not let up. “Communities urgently need a whole-of-government response, and that’s what we saw today from the governor,” he added.
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/go...iolence-disaster-emergency-part-comprehensive
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/06/nyregion/new-york-gun-violence-emergency.html
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