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 Gabays funeral at the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Clinton Hill.
He told the dozens of mourners that the 43-year-olds death from an errant bullet fired in the wake of a Labor Day JOuvert 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 Gabays 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 Gabays 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.
Gabays 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.
>>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!”
Go to hell, Cuomo.
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.
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
Yeah, a really long shutdown.
Nothing good happens on the streets at 3:00 AM. What is needed is to return to the stop and frisk.
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
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.
How about a curfew in high crime areas like 9:00?
Easy to control a few that several million
Was Como referring to Planned Infanticide™ ?
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.
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
An errant bullet is murder?
An errant bullet is murder?
It was a conservative bullet!.
Great. Another hide the football. Watch pubbies get the blame for such a fine event as gun raid government shutdown.
Hilarious.
I thought Cuomo solved gun control in his own state. How could there be another funeral?
> He told the dozens of mourners that the 43-year-olds death from an errant bullet fired in the wake of a Labor Day JOuvert 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.
He has Bloomberg Gun Control Derangement Syndrome.....thinks that having a Body Guard is different than having a gun.
If the Democrats try this, the Republicans should tack on the defunding of Planned Barrenhood as an amendment.
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