Hochul Rejects Needing Data to Support Passing Strict Gun Control Measures

Townhall ^ | Jul 01, 2022 7:00 AM | Leah Barkoukis

[E. Pluribus Unum]

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday she doesn’t need data to make the case that concealed carry permit holders make New York more dangerous. 

“Do you have numbers to show that it’s the concealed carry permit holders that are committing crimes?” WRGB news anchor Anne McCloy asked. “Because the lawful gun owner will say that you’re attacking the wrong person, it’s really people that are getting these guns illegally that are causing the violence, not the people going and getting the permit legally and that’s the basis for the whole Supreme Court argument. Do you have the numbers?”

Hochul argued the statistics are irrelevant. 

“I don’t need to have numbers. I don’t need to have a data point to point to,” she replied. “All I know is that I have a responsibility to the people of this state to have sensible gun safety laws, and this one was not devised by the Hochul administration. It comes out of an administration from 1908. I don’t need a data point to make the case that I have a responsibility to protect the people of this state.”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

98% OF MASS SHOOTINGS OCCUR IN GUN-FREE ZONES
REPEAL THE GUN-FREE SCHOOL ZONE ACT OF 1990

FACT: Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year or 6,849 every day. 98+% of the time the gun is not fired and no blood (including the criminal’s) is shed.

SOURCE: http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/7.1/Gun-Facts-7.1-screen.pdf, pages 21, 83.

FACT: 98% of mass-shootings occur in gun-free zones

SOURCE: https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-percentage-mass-shootings-happen-gun-free-amanda-prestigiacomo

[Bob434]

You can’t claim somehtjng is unsafe if it isn’t actually unsafe- she isn’t a king.

[ConservativeInPA]

Well New Yorkers, you’re getting exactly what you didn’t vote for. What does Lee Zeldin have to say about this, or is he not fighting yet?

[Durbin]

Data? Who needs data when feelings will suffice?

[no-to-illegals]

According to Ron White “You can’t fix stupid”

[high info voter]

And how many of Satan's fr'kn animals running loose in NYC have concealed-carry permits in their pockets???

How many are members of NRA??? It would be way better off if every decent honest citizen would "carry" and put Satan's animals OUT!!.... imho.

[antidemoncrat]

“Hochul Rejects Needing Data to Support Passing Strict Gun Control Measures”

Of course. You have to have a working brain to understand data.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Don’t confuse me by the facts!

[Bob434]

Ny has gone out of its way to ensure that another Bernard Goetz never happens again (ie self defense shooting). Ny can’t have law abiding citizens protecting themselves

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Punish the innocent. Reward the guilty.

It’s the “progressive” way.

[Sacajaweau]

https://www.nraila.org/campaigns/2016/lee-zeldin/

[nwrep]

She is factually correct. The governor has wide latitude of judgement and is not bound by fact-finding or data gathering in state constitutions. But kudos to the reporter lady who asked the question.

[Wilhelm Tell]

In other words, “the facts confirm your argument, so I will ignore the facts, I’ll make a point that I am too righteous and sophisticated to bother with mere facts. I’ll talk vaguely but emotionally about ‘safety’ instead.”

[no-to-illegals]

Protecting oneself cost lawyers, judges and the courts their livelihood. Be a victim …. It’s for the goodness of the system

[Seruzawa]

Liberals “know” things for which there is no evidence. They just “know” it.

[Bob434]

She is allowed to deny constitutional rights based on how she feels about something? Her state just got slapped down for denying a constitutional right to self defence, now she says she is gonna double down on denying those rights.

[Rurudyne]

These clowns will claim unsafe, racism, Russia collusion or any fool thing they want ... they are lying liars.

[ConservativeInPA]

But is he saying anything today? He needs to be in their faces.

[Macoozie]

“It comes out of an administration from 1908”

Big Tim Sullivan Frances Perkins, FDR . . .

Like a long line of Progressive, Social Justice, Constitution shredding POS.

They KNEW they were doing un-constitutional things.
The did them anyway.

Hochul knows what she is doing is crap law, and knows she has no legal authority.

They used to hide it. Now they don’t care.

[Campion]

I don’t need to have numbers. I don’t need to have a data point to point to

The "Party of Science" has spoken, the case is closed. /s