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Cuomo urges Dems in Congress to shut down government to get gun control law
The New York Daily News ^ | September 26, 2015 | Chris Sommerfeldt and Thomas Tracy

Posted on 09/28/2015 9:29:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Gov. Cuomo, speaking at the funeral of his murdered aide Saturday, urged Washington Democrats to shut down the government until they get a gun control bill that works.

The governor gave an emotional eulogy at Carey Gabay’s funeral at the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Clinton Hill.

He told the dozens of mourners that the 43-year-old’s death from an errant bullet fired in the wake of a Labor Day J’Ouvert celebration in Crown Heights was “one of the most tragic pointless examples of the rampant violence that is spreading like a cancer through our society.”

“His murder showed a disrespect for life so base that it didn't even care who it struck down,” Cuomo said as Gabay’s widow Trenelle Gabay and his mother Audrey listened intently from the front pew.

Gabay was the first deputy general counsel at the Empire State Development Corporation.

“The violence has become so brutal, so aimless, that the most innocent can be struck down anytime anywhere.”

Often times quoting scripture, Cuomo compared Gabay’s death to the massacres at Newtown, Conn., Charleston, S.C., and the movie theater shooting at Aurora, Colo.

He also called upon his fellow Democrats in Congress to shut down the government until they get an iron-clad national gun control law passed.

“If the far right is willing to shut down the government because they don't get a tax cut for the rich, then our people should have the same resolve and threaten to shut down the government if they don't get a real gun control law to stop killing of their innocents,” he said.

Gabay, a Harvard-educated son of Jamaican immigrants who was recently named first deputy counsel to the Empire State Development Corp., was the victim of a gunfight between three rival gangs that erupted on Bedford Ave. about 3:45 a.m. Sept. 7. Gabay ran between two cars for cover but a stray shot hit him in the head.

After being declared brain dead, Gabay was taken off life support Sept. 17.

“He never saw the shooter, he never knew what caused the gunshots — it was purely random," Cuomo told reporters after the service, adding that Gabay had “a smile that lit up the state of New York.”

Gabay’s widow and family declined to speak to the press.

"The gun violence in this city, in this state, has gotten out of control,” Cuomo said. “The fact that our governments do nothing about it is unforgivable. It really is unforgivable"

The gunman who killed Gabay remains on the loose.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
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1 posted on 09/28/2015 9:29:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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>>Gov. Cuomo, speaking at the funeral of his murdered aide Saturday, urged Washington Democrats to shut down the government until they get a gun control bill that works.
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My prayer tonight: “God, please let Cuomo get his way!”


2 posted on 09/28/2015 9:30:50 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The 17th Amendment was the beginning of the end. The end was the 19th ;) Thank God for the 21st!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Go to hell, Cuomo.


3 posted on 09/28/2015 9:31:03 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Interesting how it’s a moral position to be approved when a Dem wants to do it...

When Rats are in the minority of both houses and don’t have the White House, how will the ‘shut down’ be treated?

MSM will still try to pin it on the Republicans.


4 posted on 09/28/2015 9:34:45 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dear governor, I don’t know what oaths you’ve taken but here in America we have constitutional rights. So take your bs elsewhere. Thank you


5 posted on 09/28/2015 9:35:15 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Brilliant, funny, and incisive Tagline coming to this space soon.....)
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To: freedumb2003

Yeah, a really long shutdown.


6 posted on 09/28/2015 9:37:31 PM PDT by umgud
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To: umgud

Nothing good happens on the streets at 3:00 AM. What is needed is to return to the stop and frisk.


7 posted on 09/28/2015 9:41:44 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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“His murder showed a disrespect for life so base that it didn't even care who it struck down,”

“The violence has become so brutal, so aimless, that the most innocent can be struck down anytime anywhere.”

I guess only CERTAIN, connected "Black Lives Matter." Not so much for the innocent children in Chicago, St Louis, Detroit, etc...

Funny how they never get too outraged about them, unless they can make political hay from them.

Dems simply look at dead Black civilians as cordwood.

Mark

8 posted on 09/28/2015 9:41:56 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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Well see there gov, that’s the problem. There are no gun control laws that work. Never have been, never will be. Fundamental, insurmountable problem with gun control laws is that they only change behavior of the law abiding. Funny thing about criminals there gov is that, well, they’re criminals, they break laws. So these people (criminals) who are ready and willing to break a dozen other laws, assault, rape, kill, etc. These people gov, they aren’t going to give one rat’s backside about magazine limits, background checks, etc. Gov, that doesn’t take a whole lot of smarts to figure out. So gov, when you advocate for gun control in the name of public safety. Well gov, it marks you as an idiot and or liar.


9 posted on 09/28/2015 9:43:18 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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How about a curfew in high crime areas like 9:00?
Easy to control a few that several million


10 posted on 09/28/2015 9:52:34 PM PDT by Kozy
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> “The violence has become so brutal, so aimless, that the most innocent can be struck down anytime anywhere.”

Was Como referring to Planned Infanticide™ ?

11 posted on 09/28/2015 9:59:56 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Three points:

1. He was shot in NYC? Dont they have some of the toughest gun control laws in the country?

2. Those gang members did not buy their guns at a gun store.

3. Cuomo politized his aide’s funeral. Shame on him.


12 posted on 09/28/2015 10:41:00 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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I’m sure tighter gun control will surely strike fear into the heart of every gangbanger in NYC...oh yes it WILL !!!/s How about infiltrating and busting the friggin’ GANGS?! (But that would make too much sense) /s


13 posted on 09/28/2015 11:14:40 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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He told the dozens of mourners that the 43-year-old’s death from an errant bullet fired in the wake of a Labor Day J’Ouvert celebration in Crown Heights was “one of the most tragic pointless examples of the rampant violence that is spreading like a cancer through our society.” “His murder showed a disrespect for...

An errant bullet is murder?

14 posted on 09/28/2015 11:21:40 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (behind enemy lines)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

An errant bullet is murder?

It was a conservative bullet!.


15 posted on 09/28/2015 11:28:04 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Great. Another hide the football. Watch pubbies get the blame for such a fine event as gun raid government shutdown.

Hilarious.


16 posted on 09/28/2015 11:33:42 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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I thought Cuomo solved gun control in his own state. How could there be another funeral?


17 posted on 09/29/2015 12:33:24 AM PDT by inchworm
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

> He told the dozens of mourners that the 43-year-old’s death from an errant bullet fired in the wake of a Labor Day J’Ouvert celebration in Crown Heights was “one of the most tragic pointless examples of the rampant violence that is spreading like a cancer through our society.”

IOW, he’s a demagogue.


18 posted on 09/29/2015 1:02:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He has Bloomberg Gun Control Derangement Syndrome.....thinks that having a Body Guard is different than having a gun.


19 posted on 09/29/2015 1:23:13 AM PDT by Be Careful
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If the Democrats try this, the Republicans should tack on the defunding of Planned Barrenhood as an amendment.


20 posted on 09/29/2015 3:20:07 AM PDT by free-in-nyc (Freeping from the heart of the occupation)
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