You have a state with an 'assault weapon' ban, a state where you basically cannot get a permit to carry a handgun, and a deranged convicted murderer (he was convicted of murdering his own mother) is let out of jail, and nearly kills a random 'Asian' woman while ranting "you don't belong here".
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/0 ... man-video/
The attempted-murderer is black, which shouldn't really be an 'issue' one way or the other - EXCEPT that the 'narrative' is that "we need more 'gun control' laws to deal with the 'white supremacists' out there..."

Notice the attack got multiply-videoed, but nobody intervened, even the 'security guards' nearby. PERHAPS that is a result of both the fact that CCW is only for the wealthy elite in NYC, and reflects a pusillanimous city attitude of just ignoring violent crime.
Now I may just be guessing, but if that attack had happened in a 'redneck' environment where 10% or so of the citizens are packing handguns (....maybe even 'high capacity semiautomatic handguns, chambered for military cartridges' like 9mm...

