New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order on Tuesday declaring gun violence in the state a Disaster Emergency.
Cuomo announced the order amid a surge in gun violence dating back to the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and said the state would fund programs to combat gun violence as well as create government programs to track statistics surrounding shootings and gun trafficking.
“Just like we did with COVID, New York is going to lead the nation once again with a comprehensive approach to combating and preventing gun violence and our first step is acknowledging the problem with a first-in-the-nation disaster emergency on gun violence,” Cuomo said.
Under the declaration, the state will invest $138.7 million in intervention programs that engage at-risk youth in summer job opportunities and community activity programs and hospital-based programs that provide outreach to shooting victims.
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A new State Police Gun Trafficking Interdiction Unit will focus on stopping illegal guns from entering New York through states with less restrictive gun safety laws.
Cuomo’s order also requires the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services to compile weekly incident-level data on gun violence and share it with the state, the data will then be used by the new Office of Gun Violence Prevention to track emerging gun violence hotspots.
Further, the order creates a partnership with the John Jay College of Criminal Justice aimed at strengthening police and community relations.
“It is a matter of saving lives and New York’s future depends on it,” Cuomo said at a news conference announcing the order. “People are not coming back to this city, they’re not coming back to any city, until they know they are safe.”
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Oh No! He’s preparing to murder more defenseless elderly people.
Is it going to be anything like “Stop and Frisk” that was squashed by the leftist regimes in NYS and NYC???
So, by Cuomo logic, the best way to protect citizens would be to round them up and shoot them all?
So we can expect that Illegal (?) gunowners will be sent into Senior Homes for Council but of course be allowed to carry with them? This womanizer will be allowed to set a president due to his great Character and leadership?? Wow just what is this world coming to? Oh yeah a Biden, excuse me, Harris, excuse me, Pelosi led America that has NO Character or morality.
New York State and New York City are a disasters because the Democrats are a disaster. The Democrat Governor and Dumbo crat Mayor are incompetent, mentally ill morons. How can people in control of the well being of its citizens be so inept, be so rich and be out of control ? Are the voters that stupid or is the political process that corrupt? or both?
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. NY already has the most gun control laws in the country and crime just skyrockets. So more laws should surely do the trick. These communists really don’t care how many die as long as the agenda is advanced. Reducing crime is NOT the goal, disarming America has always been the goal of the communist left. Gun control only disarms the victims.
WHICH explains why liberals keep VOTING THESE NITWITS back into office… THEY ARE just as insane, as those who run for office are!
So if New York is going to lead the nation in solving gun violence does that mean he’ll have his Antifa buddies go into nursing homes with full automatic weapons and shoot everyone who is over 65? That’s how New York solved the covid problem, infect all nursing home residents with covid so they’d die off. After all, just like Cuomo said “They were going to die, anyway.”
Now it turns out the average age of people dying from covid is higher than the average life expectancy. Means the govt pretty much did an overkill job.
Jack I saw that on tucker last night. Median age of lifespan in ohio 73 yrs. MEDIAN AGE of those who died from covid, 78 years…
Cuomo’s saying that he will handle gun violence like he handled covid is basically like saying he will shoot himself in the foot. And that will only be after he takes it out of his mouth.
Not sure who is the bigger creep. Andrew or Chris Cuomo? OK it’s a tie.
New Yorkers belong to the dullest group of people that I know. The person who made the decision to kill the elderly should be given more authority to make other decisions. Does that make any sense? Hard to say that the voters of New York are perhaps reaping the rewards of electing this Nimrod. Buyer Beware of buying tainted goods. Wake up for your own self preservation.
Decades ago NYS and NYC were changed from Republican to Democrat almost overnight by importing tens of thousands of people, mostly from P.R. who were told to vote Democrat and they will receive a world of “goodies”…….. just as Obama did and what the “fraudulency” is doing today. They were placed in cities and the once grand State and City began the slide downward to where it is today and getting worse because of the continued idiotic orders of this p.o.s. It’s mainly two and possibly three of 5 boroughs in the city and a few areas upstate that are far left. Most of the State is still Republican but they cannot overcome the areas with huge leftist populations.
Andrew the Second Shameless One Cuomo is campaigning again. He wants credit for his handling of COVID and claims he will have the same success handling gun violence. He will. He placed the elderly and COVID in the same facilities causing thousands of deaths. Now, he wants to place New Yorkers without guns with criminals with guns to cause death.
Look at the smiling ignorant supporters! All believing that the fool signing the papers is going to make a difference. Criminals are not going to support whatever he is signing, nor even read it. Outlaws can just continue to black market the guns into NY as usual, Why wouldn’t they?
Given how COVID was handled in NY, especially in the nursing homes, it looks like NY is doomed.
“Under the declaration, the state will invest $138.7 million in intervention programs that engage at-risk youth in summer job opportunities and community activity programs and hospital-based programs that provide outreach to shooting victims.”
intervention programs like “midnight basketball”? definitely throwing “good” money after bad
outreach for shooting victims? let’s all hope it’s not the same sort of “outreach” that elderly persons received from having Covid sufferers placed into nursing homes/assisted-living
I wonder, how much of that millions, WILL ACTUALLY GO TO THOSE who bloody NEED it!
The arrogance of this political hack! Looks like a lot of elderly people in nursing homes are at risk to be shot….
I think it’s time to remove him. Impeachment?
(I truly wish)…