{"id":111020,"date":"2025-06-28T18:28:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T23:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111020"},"modified":"2025-06-28T18:28:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T23:28:49","slug":"111020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111020","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>24 years after 9\/11 and Noo Yawk goes for this&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/tomknighton\/2025\/06\/28\/zohran-mamdani-vioience-is-an-artificial-construct-n1229093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zohran Mamdani: &#8220;VioIence is an Artificial Construction&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York City&#8217;s Democratic voters chose Zohran Mamdani as their nominee. It says a lot about how bad Mamdani is, though, that a lot of people thought the allegedly handsy former governor of New York, who left office in disgrace, was a better option, but the voters have spoken.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s entirely possible someone else will prevail in the general election, the odds are good that Mamdani will win\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racetothewh.com\/nycmayorpolling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">based on current polling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot for me to dislike about Mamdani, including his previous call to ban all guns, but a lot of New Yorkers aren&#8217;t going to disagree with that on any level, unfortunately, and since I can&#8217;t vote against him, my own feelings are irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s a reason everyone in the Big Apple should be concerned, and that&#8217;s just how soft on crime he&#8217;s shaping up to be.<\/p>\n<p>For example, he says that violence is an artificial construct.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1938368181287989550&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fbearingarms.com%2Ftomknighton%2F2025%2F06%2F28%2Fzohran-mamdani-vioience-is-an-artificial-construct-n1229093&amp;sessionId=abe15698b0e4b226b3b7780998598792fad539de&amp;siteScreenName=BearingArmsCom&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1938368181287989550\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Now, I get that he&#8217;s claiming that non-violent crimes are being prosecuted as acts of violence, even when they&#8217;re not, but I&#8217;m rather skeptical of that claim without some hard evidence backing it up.\u00a0<strong>[Editor&#8217;s Note: New York actually prosecutes gun possession without a permit as a violent crime, so there is\u00a0<em>some\u00a0<\/em>evidence that&#8217;s the case &#8211; Cam]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Breaking into a business that has an attached but separate dwelling isn&#8217;t likely to be viewed as the same as breaking into a home in court. I seriously doubt a prosecutor would even try it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, sometimes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/tomknighton\/2025\/06\/28\/video-tom-sits-down-with-lee-williams-to-discuss-adamiak-case-n1229092\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">horrible things happen<\/a>. Vile people do vile things, even if they work in a prosecutor&#8217;s office or with law enforcement. I get that.<\/p>\n<p>But the language here matters.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani could have just started off by arguing that people are overprosecuted and left it there. That&#8217;s something people will likely rally behind and something that his opponents will have a hard time attacking him for.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, though, he says &#8220;violence is an artificial construction,&#8221; which is the kind of language we hear in a lot of other debates. Gender is an artificial construct. Gender roles are an artificial construct. Even rights have been termed as artificial constructs.<\/p>\n<p>In short, the term &#8220;artificial construct&#8221; or &#8220;artificial construction&#8221; is a common buzzword used for undermining the mere existence of a thing.<\/p>\n<p>Violence, on the other hand, isn&#8217;t. How we define &#8220;good&#8221; and &#8220;bad&#8221; forms of violence might be, but the act of being violent is no such thing. It&#8217;s an objective fact that violence happens, that people do it to others, and victims get hurt as a result.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t artificial, nor is it constructed.<\/p>\n<p>What Mamdani is doing, even if unintentionally, is laying the groundwork to excuse violent crime entirely because if it&#8217;s an artificial construction, then there&#8217;s no reason to punish it beyond our need to uphold this artificial construction. Since it&#8217;s clear he&#8217;s hostile toward such artificial constructions, it seems that he favors violence not being punished.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a reasonable extrapolation, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Overprosecution, which may or may not be happening, isn&#8217;t a case of violence being an artificial construction. It&#8217;s a case of prosecutors crossing the line from what is acceptable and just to injustice and unacceptability.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani&#8217;s entire argument, however, hinges on this idea, which means that it&#8217;s a good thing the Bruen decision put an end to shall-issue permitting in New York City, because New Yorkers are probably going to need those guns pretty soon if he&#8217;s elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 years after 9\/11 and Noo Yawk goes for this&#8230;. Zohran Mamdani: &#8220;VioIence is an Artificial Construction&#8221; New York City&#8217;s Democratic voters chose Zohran Mamdani as their nominee. It says a lot about how bad Mamdani is, though, that a lot of people thought the allegedly handsy former governor of New York, who left office &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111020\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-moslems-jihadis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111021,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111020\/revisions\/111021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}