After aide shot, New York governor urges national gun control

reuters ^ | Sep. 8, 2015 | Barbara Goldberg

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A day after one of his top aides was critically wounded by a stray bullet, Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday called for a national gun control policy, saying that New York's tough firearms laws are ineffective if they stand alone.

Police sought suspects in the shooting of Carey Gabay, 43, believed to be an unintended target who was struck in the head at an outdoor celebration on Monday before the West Indian Day parade in Brooklyn, a spokeswoman for the New York Police Department said. Gabay, the first deputy counsel at Empire State Development, the state's chief economic development agency, remains in critical condition at Kings County Hospital Center, said a Cuomo spokesman.

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“saying that New York’s tough firearms laws are ineffective if they stand alone.”

Governor Cuomo says that New York’s firearm laws are ineffective if they stand alone.

There is strong opposition to the last batch of laws, passed under dubious “emergency conditions” in the middle of the night.

As Governor Cuomo has admitted that they are ineffective, he should have no qualms about repealing them. Why keep ineffective laws in the face of stiff opposition?

Obviously, because the stated purpose of the law is not its real purpose.