{"id":85622,"date":"2022-09-15T14:57:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T19:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=85622"},"modified":"2022-09-15T14:57:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T19:57:35","slug":"85622","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=85622","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/tomknighton\/2022\/09\/15\/hochuls-gun-laws-n62364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Hochul&#8217;s gun laws will make churches less safe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has been on an anti-gun tirade pretty much since she took office. Any hopes she\u2019d be a smidge better than her predecessor on the Second Amendment have been well and truly dashed. The only thing she may be better on is not sexually harassing her female subordinates.<\/p>\n<p>Following New York\u2019s epic smackdown by the Supreme Court, Hochul and the legislature rushed through a measure seeking to try and adhere to the letter of the Bruen decision only as much as they felt they had to.<\/p>\n<p>Yet that law includes a prohibition of guns at any place of worship.<\/p>\n<p>As noted at our sister site PJ Media, that\u2019s going to make\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/lincolnbrown\/2022\/09\/14\/kathy-hochuls-new-gun-laws-put-churches-at-risk-n1629491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">those places of worship a lot less safe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For your consideration:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On June 17, 2015, a man walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., where a prayer meeting was being held. He\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pictures\/charleston-south-carolina-church-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shot<\/a>\u00a0and killed nine people, including the pastor, State Senator\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/charleston-shooting-victims-include-brilliant-pastor-recent-college-grad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clementa Pinckney<\/a>. The shooter was charged with a hate crime.<\/li>\n<li>November 5, 2017 \u2014 a man entered the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/texas-church-shooting-devin-patrick-kelley-first-baptist-church-sutherland-springs-live-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church<\/a>\u00a0in Texas. He was dressed in black and wearing tactical gear. By the time he finished shooting, 26 were dead and 20 were wounded.<\/li>\n<li>On a Sunday morning in December 2019, a man walked through the door of the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/injuries-reported-shooting-texas-church\/story?id=67969564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opened fire<\/a>\u00a0during services. Two victims died in the attack. The gunman was killed by two parishioners, one of whom was the security guard.<\/li>\n<li>October 27, 2018 \u2014 a man came into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. After shouting \u201cAll Jews must die!\u201d he shot and killed 11 people. Six others were wounded. He was known for posting anti-Semitic rants on Gab.<\/li>\n<li>One person was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-poway-synagogue-shooting-20190427-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed<\/a>\u00a0and three were injured when a man entered Chabad of Poway in California and opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle in April 2019.<\/li>\n<li>In January of this year, a man held four people, including the rabbi,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/armed-man-takes-hostages-texas-synagogue-source\/story?id=82285896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hostage<\/a>\u00a0at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, for 10 hours before being killed by police. The suspect said that he had hidden bombs in undisclosed locations.<\/li>\n<li>In May 2022, the\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/24\/a-new-wave-of-anti-semitism-is-sweeping-new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0a rise in anti-Semitic activity in the city. This included vandalization of synagogues and attacks on individual people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It should be noted that if you want to go further back, you can find still more places of worship being targeted.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, many churches and synagogues can\u2019t afford to hire professional armed security, yet there\u2019s no provision in state law for volunteers to step in if the church so desires.<\/p>\n<p>Look, one area where I tend to infuriate my fellow Second Amendment supporters is that I think a property owner has the right to ban guns on their property. I\u2019m fine with laws that give signs the force of law, even. I want to know where I\u2019m not welcome, after all.<\/p>\n<p>But the flip side of that is that I cannot tolerate laws that tell property owners that they can\u2019t make that determination for themselves. That\u2019s precisely what Hochul\u2019s law does since the churches and synagogues are, in fact, property owners in most cases.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at this list, it\u2019s easy to see that places of worship get targeted by maniacs looking to kill as many people as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul and folks like her probably think this law will stop that, but it won\u2019t. I mean, if a law would stop such a thing, then wouldn\u2019t the laws against murder do the trick on their own?<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t, though.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, these places of worship cannot allow their congregations to be lawfully armed as a defensive measure. That means these very places become\u00a0<em>better<\/em>\u00a0targets for the deranged.<\/p>\n<p>And when it happens in New York, remember that it was Hochul and her buddies who made that target so attractive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Hochul&#8217;s gun laws will make churches less safe New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has been on an anti-gun tirade pretty much since she took office. Any hopes she\u2019d be a smidge better than her predecessor on the Second Amendment have been well and truly dashed. 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