{"id":93948,"date":"2023-06-27T12:12:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=93948"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:12:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:12:07","slug":"93948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=93948","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bearingarms.com\/ranjit-singh\/2023\/06\/26\/ny-gov-kathy-hochul-packs-incredible-gun-control-lies-and-claims-into-a-58-second-video-n71883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Gov. Kathy Hochul packs incredible gun control lies and claims into a 58-second video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I live in New York, which is one of the worst states to be a lawful gun owner and a taxpaying citizen. The proof is in the pudding; people vote with their feet when life becomes intolerable due to poor governance, and New York\u2019s allegedly wonderful governance resulted in the loss of yet another congressional seat after the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2020_United_States_redistricting_cycle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020 redistricting cycle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is grating to see Gov. Kathy Hochul still bragging about New York as some sort of bastion of freedom and opportunity in the face of the evidence of outmigration. Part of her braggadocio was a video her office posted on Twitter, discussing all the \u201cgood\u201d she has done to keep the people of New York \u201csafe from concealed carry weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A year ago today, the Supreme Court ruled to strip away the rights of a governor to protect her people from concealed carry weapons.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>We refused to go backwards. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lUx6BRsLBo\">pic.twitter.com\/lUx6BRsLBo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovKathyHochul\/status\/1672384169844826114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>First, you don\u2019t have \u201crights\u201d as a governor; you have powers to govern, and those powers are limited so they don\u2019t violate the rights\u00a0<i>of the people<\/i>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Second, your job is to protect the people\u2019s rights and liberties, and your matriarchal view on \u201cprotecting her people\u201d is condescending bunk. Lastly, concealed carry weapons in and of themselves don\u2019t do anything. It depends on who is carrying them.\u00a0<b>Criminals were carrying concealed weapons prior to NYSRPA v. Bruen and continue to carry after NYSRPA v. Bruen.<\/b>\u00a0However, ordinary people\u2019s rights to carry guns in public were infringed by New York State\u2019s discretionary permitting scheme.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We have covered New York State\u2019s\u00a0discretionary permitting regime extensively here in the past. To summarize, if you were rich and famous, had political connections, or were willing and able to bribe\u00a0 the police with cash, expensive watches, or strippers, you could get a concealed carry permit. If you were in need to protect yourself, that need was not considered enough by government apparatchiks because you didn\u2019t meet the above criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul\u2019s video has more gems:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cThis is a state where we protect our people. We take this responsibility deadly seriously.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone who has paid attention to New York\u2019s crime statistics knows this is a joke. No, you don\u2019t protect the people of this state and this responsibility has been treated as nothing but a talking point.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the rest of the transcript of her 58-second blather:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>\u201cOne year ago this week, the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to make our state more dangerous and take away the rights of a governor to protect her people from concealed carry weapons. It was a reckless and shocking decision.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hochul is either stupid, a liar, or both. The NYSRPA v. Bruen decision came\u00a0<b><i>after<\/i><\/b>\u00a0the Buffalo mass shooting in which a white supremacist illegally modified a New York-compliant rifle and went on to commit his execrable crime. New York already had a red flag law. It already had \u201cuniversal\u201d background checks that the shooter passed. What did it\u00a0<b>NOT<\/b>\u00a0have? Armed citizens able to shoot back. According to Hochul, disarming decent New Yorkers is because the State takes its \u201cresponsibility\u201d to keep people safe \u201cdeadly seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>\u201cAnd we knew we had to take matters into our own hands. We could not let the status quo rest. And we said, we\u2019re not going to surrender to this reality. So, I called the legislature back into session. I pushed for new common-sense concealed carry laws which were passed and went into effect on September 1. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>We strengthened background checks and required training. We banned concealed carry holders from sensitive locations. And over the last year, we\u2019ve also been able to uphold the rights of lawful gun owners while getting illegal guns off the streets, keeping guns away from dangerous people, and most importantly, driving down the shootings. We are saving people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>New York\u2019s post-Bruen temper tantrum is quite bad. The \u201cstrengthened background checks\u201d are a joke. The training burden is onerous and intended to chill the exercise of the right to keep and bear arms by the poor. It\u2019s elitist to the core.<\/p>\n<p>As for sensitive locations, again, criminals were carrying wherever they pleased before NYSRPA v. Bruen and will continue ignoring Hochul\u2019s expanded list of \u201csensitive places.\u201d On the other hand, the lawful will obey those stupid laws and make themselves more vulnerable in the process.<\/p>\n<p>There are other parts of the post-Bruen tantrum laws that are useless, ineffective, and unconstitutional. Semi-automatic long guns which previously didn\u2019t require licensing now require one. A right has been brazenly converted into a licensed privilege.<\/p>\n<p>You cannot get ammunition shipped to your doorstep which used to be the case before. Guess what you can not only get shipped to your doorstep, but the State will happily ship to other people\u2019s doorsteps out of state?<br \/>\nNEW: I just signed a law to protect women seeking abortion care from New York doctors. Our law ensures providers can prescribe &amp; send abortion medication to patients in states where it is banned.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: I just signed a law to protect women seeking abortion care from New York doctors. Our law ensures providers can prescribe &amp; send abortion medication to patients in states where it is banned.<\/p>\n<p>Draconian abortion bans put lives at risk. We will never back down from this fight. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pSbberSoPL\">pic.twitter.com\/pSbberSoPL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovKathyHochul\/status\/1672304566400851983?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yup, that\u2019s nutty New York in a nutshell. At this point, there are only two ways out to protect the right to keep and bear arms in this State: the federal judiciary, and in the long run, swelling the ranks of gun owners and lawful concealed carriers by teaching people and creating new Second Amendment voters. (Shameless plug: there\u2019s more in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Each-One-Teach-Preserving-protecting\/dp\/1537445413\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my book, \u201cEach One, Teach One\u201d<\/a>\u00a0about this very subject.) Until then, we will have to deal with the stupidity of politicians like Kathy Hochul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Gov. Kathy Hochul packs incredible gun control lies and claims into a 58-second video I live in New York, which is one of the worst states to be a lawful gun owner and a taxpaying citizen. 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