Gun control crusader and former US Rep. Carolyn McCarthy dead at 81

AP via Yahoo ^ | 6/26/25 | Frank Eltman

[DallasBiff]

Former U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, who successfully ran for Congress in 1996 as a crusader for gun control after a mass shooting on a New York commuter train left her husband dead and her son severely wounded, has died. She was 81.

News of her death was shared Thursday by several elected officials on her native Long Island and by Jay Jacobs, chair of the New York State Democratic Committee. Details about her death were not immediately available.

McCarthy went from political novice to one of the nation’s leading advocates for gun control legislation in the aftermath of the 1993 Long Island Rail Road massacre. However, the suburban New York Democrat found limited success against the National Rifle Association and other Second Amendment advocates.

[DallasBiff]

She never got the concept that there are evil godless people in the world and that people have the right to protect themselves.

[NorthMountain]

She never got the concept that there are evil godless people in the world and she was one of them.

[rktman]

Because she was one of them? Did I type that out loud?

[absalom01]

Her memory shall live in infamy.

The famous “shoulder thing that goes up” bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ospNRk2uM3U&ab_channel=JeffCook

[frank ballenger]

Agree.

So that means she enabled violent criminals to find new victims to kill. Like the judges who are soft on crime do.
And people who needed to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights were curtailed by her legislative “crusades.”

We’ll never know how many were disarmed by such restrictions as she championed.

[cowboyusa]

No comment

[kiryandil]

If you can’t say anything nice...

[montag813]

She took a racist mass-murder of her husband and others and turned it into a war against guns. Horrible.

[Vaquero]

I can say anything nice, so.

[Vesuvian]

We got saddled with her because Dan Frisa had the audacity to primary, and beat David Levy, the annointed R candidate. In the next election, Frisa faced McCarthy with no party support, and lost.

Come to think of it, that's pretty common in NY for the Republican Party to cede elections to the democrats, and they'll do it again in NYC and hopefully not again in the governor's race. "Sliwa can't win- gotta support Adams!" Ugh.

[clee1]

Im sorry I’ll have to answer for this some day, but GOOD!

[exnavy]

I happen to own a barrel thing that goes up.

[NorthMountain]

Legislation is written, debated, and voted on by some of the most ignorant and unintelligent people on the planet. The vast majority of politicians are just plain dumb ...

[NorthMountain]

Say the truth. Especially about evil politicians who promoted evil policies and evil legislation.

Carolyn McCarthy was a “domestic enemy” of the Constitution.

[packrat35]

Too bad she never put the blame on the real problem. No, let’s blame inanimate objects...

[absalom01]

And an immigrant, committing the murders that Americans aren’t willing to do themselves.

[Bigg Red]

Ditto

[Disambiguator]

I happen to own a barrel thing that goes up.

You mean like flip-up sights that are attached to a barrel shroud? Those are extremely dangerous!

[higgmeister]

To paraphrase the usual phrase, it’s time to give it a rest now, lady.

[wardaddy]

Didn’t she lose someone on the Colin Ferguson train murders

Early black racist homicide