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Gun Control Fail: At Least 16 Shot Tuesday into Wednesday in NYC

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AWR HAWKINS

28 Sep 20220

3:07

At least 16 people were shot Tuesday into Wednesday in Democrat-run New York City despite the passage of new gun controls, which include the establishment of gun-free zones through the city.

The New York Post reports that the shootings occurred during a 16-hour time frame which ended at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, when the sixteenth victim was shot and wounded.

That sixteenth victim was a 42-year-old man who was standing “on Tiebout Avenue near East 182nd Street in Fordham Heights…when he was slashed in the face and shot in the back by two gunmen who took off on a dark-colored scooter.”

Other Wednesday morning shootings occurred at 2:20 a.m., 6 a.m., and 6:45 a.m.

ABC 7 points out that four men, ages 24 to 28, were wounded in Harlem during a shooting at 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, which occurred “just hours after four were shot in Queens.”

The Post notes that “gunfire broke out in every borough” during the 16-hour time-frame.

The gun violence Tuesday into Wednesday comes approximately a month after Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced the establishment of new gun-free zones around the city, noting all the places in which law-abiding citizens would not be allowed to carry a firearm for self-defense.

On September 1 Breitbart News reported Hochul claiming good guys with guns do not stop armed bad guys.

Breitbart News covered a press conference 0n August 24 in which Hochul presented a list of many of the new gun controls Democrats were implementing in New York. She noted, “The threat of making mass harm is now a crime,” and pointed out that state law now “bans the sale of AR-15s to those under 21,” adding, “I don’t think you should be able to purchase them at all, but we have court cases that say otherwise.”

She also highlighted the state’s post-Buffalo ban on the sale of body armor, noting that law-abiding, non-law-enforcement citizens could no longer purchase it because the May 12 Buffalo attacker wore some type of body armor.

Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety ranks New York number three in the country for gun control. But at least 16 people were shot in New York City Tuesday into Wednesday.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. AWR Hawkins holds a PhD in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

VIDEO – NYC Subway Attack Victim May Lose Sight in One Eye: ‘Do You Know How Scared I Am Now?’

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AMY FURR

27 Sep 20220

3:03

The Queens woman allegedly beaten by a homeless ex-convict may lose sight in one eye, and lamented that New Yorkers have tried to avoid becoming targets of violence.

“Elizabeth Gomes, 33, was dragged across the Howard Beach-JFK Airport station last Tuesday morning before being repeatedly kicked and punched in the face by Waheed Foster, a 41-year-old vagrant on parole who previously beat his grandmother to death, according to police,” the New York Post reported Tuesday.

She was headed to Kennedy Airport where she works as a security guard and trying to avoid the suspect who was apparently talking about the devil and other random things, according to Gomes.

She told the Post that as a New Yorker her family heard about such incidents on a regular basis and tried to avoid being caught up in one themselves.

Queens subway-attack victim could lose vision in right eye https://t.co/4aSdBPVjCo pic.twitter.com/INDR5D5SUG

— New York Post (@nypost) September 27, 2022

Gomes continued, “And it’s just so sad that even though we try to avoid it, these things still happen to us. I still can’t put that day together. I don’t even know.”

Video footage from ABC 7 showed Gomes’ injured eye and also highlighted the surveillance footage of what happened. The outlet reported her head throbbed and she had not slept properly for an entire week.

WARNING – GRAPHIC VIDEO:

During their interview with the Post, Gomes’s husband questioned why the suspect was allowed to roam the streets and said the family was searching for answers.

Authorities later charged Foster with assault and he was held without bail. In 1995, the suspect beat his 82-year-old foster grandmother to death when when they were fighting about money. He was 14 years old at the time, according to sources.

“In 2010, he also stabbed a woman in the face at a mental institution and has also been arrested for assaulting a woman with a screwdriver, criminal mischief, robbery and larceny, law-enforcement sources said,” the outlet reported, adding that he was on parole for the 2010 assault when the most recent incident took place.

Overall index crime in New York City jumped last month by 26 percent compared to the same time last year, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) reported September 6.

In February, a Morning Consult/Politico poll found approximately 75 percent of registered voters believed defunding the police was a “major” or “minor” reason behind the violent crime wave sweeping across President Joe Biden’s (D) America.

However, Democrats had largely pulled back from the “Defund the Police” movement because it did not bode well for them in the upcoming midterms.

The Breitbart News report added that bail reform executed by leftist (often George Soros-backed) prosecutors deeply hurt police officers’ morale as repeat offenders were freed to commit additional crimes.

“In New York, for example, 4-in-10 criminal suspects freed by ‘bail reform’ are rearrested, per state records,” the outlet said.