When gun control advocates push for legislation
restricting Second Amendment rights, they almost always carve out
exemptions not just for law enforcement officers but for retired
law enforcement officers. Police officers generally keep their
firearms with them while off-duty, not at the police station. Gun
control advocates are okay with this, even as they demand private
citizens surrender that same right. It’s a dangerous hypocrisy. The
latest act of “gun violence” in Westchester County, New York, whose
anti-gun laws have exemptions for cops and retired cops,
via NBC New York:
An NYPD officer has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted
murder, assault and drunken driving in the apparently random
off-duty shooting attack on two men in a car in the suburbs earlier
this year.Officer Brendan Cronin was suspended in the wake of the April 29
shooting.The passenger in the car was hit six times.
The judge issued a restraining order from Cronin to stay away
from his victims but he’s spared jail for now, with the cop and his
lawyer leaving the courtroom without comment. In New York City, a
gun-related charge could land you among the 11,000 people the city
holds in detention at Riker’s Island. There two corrections
officers and a captain were
charged with allegedly handcuffing and beating an inmate
unconscious in 2012 and then covering it up. He appears to have
been there awaiting trial on a misdemeanor
assault charge.
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