That was a gross over-reaction on the part of NYPD and the rent-a-cop. Looks like another good reason for those of us in the Bible belt to avoid NYC, as if we needed one.
Looks like it’s worse to carry a gun than to kill someone with it.
Terror keeps the people in line.
I had an apartment in NY city for years and I always carried a snubby 38 {without a NY permit}.
I knew the legal risk, but in the last year I had my place in the city they set a record with 2,000 + gun murders in the city.
I decided that carrying was worth the legal risk.
The last time I was in the city I was carrying {went to see the Rocketts at Christmas a few years ago, had dinner and went to ground zero.
I would never go into that hell hole unarmed, and I rarely go back.
I would also not advising using a gun unless it was your absolute last resort to save lives, because you will go to jail.
Its not just NYC. The same thing happens in New Jersey, Maryland and many New England States.
A foreign culture and political ideology long ago took root in New York City and sent its tentacles out into New England, New Jersey and Maryland.
When I was growing up as a kid and living in New Jersey, I said America began at the Hudson River west. Now,still living in New Jersey I regretfully say America begins at the Delaware River west.
This culture which is ensconced in NYC and its colony states of Vermont, New Jersey, etc, is a threat to the entire nation and it doesn’t solely involve the Second Amendment. It extends across an entire spectrum of social issues.
Conservatives in the rest of America need to work with the conservatives still living in these states to do every thing we can to contain this contagion and wipe it out at its source.