Opinion
“Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.” ~ Glenn Greenwald
Freedom is suddenly popular, even in NYC, despite it making elite liberals nervous!
A NYC Council member from Brooklyn (Ukrainian-born practicing NYC attorney, Inna Vernikov, formally Democrat, but recently switched over to Republican) is one (among an enormous flood) of NYC residents currently taking advantage of the US Supreme Court’s Bruen Decision of late last year.
She has acquired at least one pistol, applied for, and was issued a NYS Concealed Carry Permit.
Prior to Bruen, NYS concealed-carry permits were issued to some NY residents who did not live in NYC. They were honored everywhere in the State except NYC. NYC had its own system, and getting a permit through it was restricted to the politically “connected.” “Ordinary” New Yorkers need not apply.
NYC’s “system” required that the applicant list “good cause” for wanting to carry concealed in the City. As you might imagine, no cause was ever “good enough.” Not surprisingly, only top City officials, along with friends and supporters, were ever considered “worthy.”
Imagine that!
Bruen has supposedly thrown all that out, but local Democrat politicians are trying desperately to restore the old system (which favored only them).
Including cynically declaring most of the City to be “sensitive” and thus off-limits to concealed-carriers. Thus, it is virtually impossible to travel anywhere in NYC without inadvertently straying into a “sensitive area.” This is, of course, by design.
Armed Democrat politicians needn’t concern themselves with any “sensitive area” designation.
In any event, Vernikov is boldly leading the way out of this pseudo-legalistic morass.
With NYPD hopelessly under-staffed (after being gutted by the de Blasio Administration) and City policing thus thin and weakened, violent crime is out of control, waxing worse by the day.
Accordingly, increasing numbers of beleaguered New Yorkers are reluctantly concluding that they must assume complete personal responsibility for their own protection or move out of the City, maybe the State (many are also exercising that option).
Being Jewish, Vernikov is painfully aware of the often violent, anti-Jewish atmosphere in the City (part of the currently fashionable “woke culture” embraced by Democrat politicians) and has thus volunteered to be part of her local synagogue’s security staff.
There are some Jews who have an issue with protecting their lives with gunfire, but most don’t.
Most Jews now regard “going armed” as a grim necessity. The practice is no longer “controversial” within the majority of the NYC Jewish Community (and Jewish Communities in most other places).
NYC’s current mayor, Eric Adams (Democrat), recently declared, “There are too many guns ‘on the street.’”
His smug indictment apparently doesn’t include his guns.
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/John
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Not only is NYC’s licensing system separated from that of NY State, it is also bifurcated. Pistol licensing is the sole domain of the NYPD, while rifles and shotguns are regulated by The Firearms Control Board, a totally separate, bureaucratic entity (even its location is distant from One Police Plaza). City government is hellbent on stopping the vast majority of its residents from exercising 2A rights. If you’re not in the elite circle, tough!
That’s great….for her….but regular peasants are still denied.
good for her, setting a good example for others.now they need to get rid of their democrat governor and her cabinet
The lady being Jewish she should know what this means and is using her modern form of protection against her enemies. Psalm 23:1-6 KJ21 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. [2] He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters. [3] He restoreth my soul; He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. [4] Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me. [5] Thou… Read more »
“There are some Jews who have an issue with protecting their lives with gunfire, but most don’t.” Sadly, that is not my experience. Too many Reform Jews and JINOs (Jews in Name Only) eschew armed self-defense. I was actually ejected from a Reform synagogue because I regularly carried a handgun. Admittedly, it was a small group out of a fairly small congregation. I would have hoped that if there was a majority that either were pro-carry or neutral that this group would out-vote the minority, but that didn’t happen. I joined a Conservative synagogue and was welcomed to the Safety… Read more »
Councilwoman Inna Vernikov has publicly stated that she is ‘terrified that America is turning into Russia’.
why would she say that?
a) because she’s witnessed it firsthand
b) because it is.
democrat translation..
#nofuksGiven