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A young political name with an old political pedigree is making noise on gun policy, and the gun-rights community isn’t impressed.
Jack Schlossberg, grandson of President John F. Kennedy, is campaigning to succeed retiring Rep. Jerrold Nadler in New York’s 12th Congressional District. Along the way, he’s decided to float a familiar gun-control talking point. Penalize states with “weak gun laws” because firearms from those states allegedly end up used in crimes in New York.
Speaking to the New York Post, Schlossberg argued that there is an “illegal flow of guns” from states with looser firearm laws and suggested those states should face penalties to help fund enforcement.
That idea didn’t sit well with the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb fired back that Schlossberg has the issue exactly backward.
“How about penalizing New York for all the criminals they release on cashless bail, who then commit crimes in other states?” Gottlieb asked.
According to Gottlieb, New York doesn’t suffer from a “gun problem” at all. It has a criminal justice problem. That is fueled by soft-on-crime policies that repeatedly turn violent offenders loose. He pointed to New York’s bail reform laws, which have been widely criticized for allowing repeat offenders to cycle in and out of custody.
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Earlier this year, President Donald Trump underscored that concern by signing an executive order directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to identify states and jurisdictions that eliminated cash bail for crimes posing clear public-safety threats, including violent offenses, burglary, looting, and vandalism.
Gottlieb accused Schlossberg of pandering to far-left Democrats rather than addressing the real drivers of crime.
“While prosecutors and courts go light on repeat offenders,” Gottlieb said. “Politicians in Albany and New York City go hard on law-abiding citizens for exercising their Second Amendment rights.”
He added that New Yorkers increasingly turn to firearms for self-defense precisely because the state has failed to control recidivist criminals. People who, in his view, should already be behind bars.
Gottlieb closed with a sharp historical jab, noting that Schlossberg’s grandfather was an NRA member.
“President Kennedy is probably shaking his head,” Gottlieb said. “Watching politicians blame lawful gun owners instead of fixing a criminal justice system that everyone knows is broken.”
As Schlossberg ramps up his campaign, CCRKBA’s message is clear. Blaming other states and lawful gun owners won’t fix New York’s crime problem. And voters are increasingly aware of that reality.
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Jack Schlossberg did not go far enough. Rather there should be a Federal Law mandating the sale of every firearm be registered and the new buyer undergo an “enhanced background check” that “we already have had in place since 1933, it’s called the NFA check.
The FBI has proven that there is “an iron highway” right out of Southern States with lax gun laws that feed the criminal element in big Eastern Cities with tough gun laws making those gun laws useless. It is of course pure insanity but Right Wing Paranoids like Gottlieb see every gun law as an attempt to confiscated all guns. Well Rip Van Gottlieb you must have been asleep since 1933 when they registered all machine guns and silencer because confiscation has not happened right up to the present and not one class of firearms have been conficated. Now Al Gottlieb try and lie your way out of this Historical Fact. Of course with a red faced embarrassed lock on his face he will just ignore the truth with the simple wave of his hand and say, “Do not confuse me with the facts so I will be unable to scream from the rooftops”.
Only a nut case Paranoid could not see that when you let any criminal who wants a gun buy one on the street or at many flea markets and some gun shows faster than you can buy a hamburger and fries with no paperwork, it’s pure insanity.
If Gottleb was not such a Moron he would know that the U.S. has already more people in prison than the Chinese, Russians, and North Korea combined yet we still have the highest mass murder and homicide rate in the Industrialized world. Yet all other industrialized countries have much lower crime and homicides, and mass murders because of their tough gun laws yet people still own guns making Gottlieb’s rantings that of a madman howling at the moon from his warped balcony and depraved altar of zero gun control.
The self proclaimed prophecy of Charlie Kirk, that ” We must accept a certain amount of homicides and mass murders (45,000 a year, 1,500 of which are children) to save the Second Amendment” came back to haunt him and he was wrong that we should accept any deaths from firearms as acceptable including his own which proved to be the self-fulfilling prophecy.
And the poster child for mental health care is back….
The problem is in the name, which liberals corrupted as usual. Criminal Justice is not supposed to mean justice for criminals, which seems to be the norm for corrupt judges across this country. We need to rename this to Victim Justice System. Liberals always like to blame inanimate objects, instead of locking up criminals and leaving them there.
NY still riding the Kennedy coattails I see. Thank God the Biden name will most likely end with the bumbling idiot COMMY in chief.
but when trump tried to withhold funds the commies screamed bloody murder about being unconstitutional……