New York has some of the most extensive gun control laws in the country, and lawmakers there are always trying to find new ways to screw people out of their Second Amendment rights.
Their arguments are always that it's about public safety, that they have to use laws to keep guns out of the hands of terrible people.
Yet those gun control laws didn't seem to do much to help New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd early Sunday morning.
New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd is in critical condition after being shot around 2 a.m. Sunday in Manhattan.
ABC 7 reported that officers responded to reports of a shooting and found 29-year-old Boyd suffering from a gunshot wound to his abdomen.
The New York Post noted that “Boyd was shot in the abdomen outside Sei Less restaurant after a dispute turned violent.” He is now in critical condition at Bellevue Hospital.
The Jets acknowledged the shooting but didn't comment on it.
The team was on a bye week, which might explain why Boyd was out on the town at two o'clock in the morning on what would ordinarily be a game day.
Regardless, there's not a lot of information about exactly what happened, but we do know that Boyd was shot. In gun-controlled New York City. Where the laws are not just intended to prevent something like this, but where proponents claim they actually do.
Well, they're really batting a thousand on that one, aren't they?
Of course, because we don't have a lot of information, we don't know who the shooter was or how he got his gun, but it also doesn't really matter all that much in the grand scheme of things, because Boyd is just one of hundreds of shooting victims in the Big Apple.
Criminals don't care about gun control laws. If they're willing to shoot people over disagreements, they're willing to steal a gun or buy a stolen one from someone else. They aren't likely to have a lot of qualms about most other crimes, now are they? So, they'll have guns. You're not going to stop them no matter how much you claim a new law will do just that.
And if the shooter happened to be one of the rare few who bought their gun lawfully, my question is, what are you going to do to prevent that, which won't impact the rest of us being able to purchase firearms? The only line we currently have is that some has a clean enough criminal record, and even that is too extensive as things stand, so what are you really going to do?
The answer is nothing. There's nothing that prevents this except somehow addressing the underlying cultural issues that lead people to think this is a viable response to things like disagreements. Boyd got into an argument, and now he's fighting for his life. Would it be better if he was fighting for his life from a stabbing or being beaten with a hammer?
I'd say not, but then again, I'm not an anti-gun jihadist who thinks Caine slew Abel with a Glock 19.
Editor's Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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