Gun Control -- Mayor Bloomberg: stunning display of intellectual dishonesty -- Keep 2 NY subway push deaths in perspective
In a stunning display of intellectual dishonesty, gun ban proponent asks New Yorkers to keep the two incidents involving mentally ill people who pushed innocent victims in front of moving subway cars in perspective …
Mayor: Keep 2 NY subway push deaths in perspective
For New York City, it wasn't an unusual sight: a possibly mentally ill woman pacing and mumbling to herself on an elevated subway station platform. The woman eventually took a seat on a bench Thursday night, witnesses later said. Then, without any warning or provocation, she sprang up and used both hands to shove a man into the path of an oncoming train.
As police sought on Friday to locate the unidentified woman, Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged residents to keep the second fatal subway shove in the city this month in perspective. The news of the horrific death of 46-year-old Sunando Sen, who was from India and lived in Queens, came as the mayor touted drops in the city's annual homicide and shooting totals.
"It's a very tragic case, but what we want to focus on today is the overall safety in New York," Bloomberg told reporters following a police academy graduation.
Though shoving deaths are rare, Thursday night's killing came just weeks after a man was pushed in front of a train in Times Square. A homeless man was charged with murder and is awaiting trial.
Other high-profile cases include the 1999 fatal shoving of Kendra Webdale, an aspiring screenwriter, by a former psychiatric patient. That case led to a state law allowing for more supervision of mentally ill people living outside institutions. Source: Mayor: Keep 2 NY subway push deaths in perspective - DC Breaking Local News Weather Sports FOX 5 WTTG
Perspective?
One, even though you may be able to spot people who look or behave weird – you cannot detect or deter crazy people from doing crazy things.
Two, when measured against a population of over 300 million people, spread out across a wide geographical area, these events – while tragic – are extremely rare.
Three, there is no legislating morality and no law currently on the books or likely to be placed on the books in the future will keep crazies and criminals from pursuing their innermost demons and desires.
Bottom line …
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a hypocrite of the first order, using a tragedy to push social legislation based on his socialist ideology. Funny, because the capitalist system that he wants to rip apart from within is what provided him with power, prestige and profits. Let us not forget that Michael Bloomberg’s multi-billion dollar fortune was made serving up bond data to the Wall Street Wizards.
I find it the height of disingenuous and deliberate hypocrisy for Bloomberg to request that New Yorker’s keep this subway pushing problem in perspective. Notice he is not demanding that guard rails be installed or other technological precautions observed. He does not appear to be calling for more subway police or identity checks against a mental illness database.
And he does not appear to be rushing out to criminalize innocent law-abiding citizens who failed to come to the aid of the stricken man on the track before he was struck by the subway train.
But he is out there screaming for gun control laws which will do little or nothing to deter the crazies and criminals who will use any available weapon to accomplish their twisted goals.
-- steve
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