Excuse me, but NYC has one of the lowest violent crime rates of any big city in the Country, including DFW, Houston, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Birmingham, Phoenix, Denver, and just about every other city that has gun laws that are far less restrictive than the laws in NYC. I'm not suggesting that there is a cause and effect. What I am suggesting is that you learn your facts before you make such stupid generalizations.
Sorry, I was still remembering the Pre-Guiliani days of Dinkensian Liberal Paradise......
New York City has one of the lowest violent crime rates "of any big city" for a couple of very basic reasons: 1) it's a police state (nearly 40,000 law enforcement officers, and that's just on the municipal level); and 2) it's a very expensive place to live, which means that most of the city's criminal element has simply moved into neighboring urban/suburban areas. I know for certain that violent crime has escalated dramatically in places like Westchester, Nassau, and Rockland Counties in New York and in much of northern New Jersey.