NY Will Require Social Media Info for Gun Permit Applicants, Heavily Restricts Where Gun Owners Can Carry
If you still have any doubts that the Democrats are working for a world where you’ll “own nothing, have no privacy” and your every thought and word is monitored… Following the recent pro-gun rights SCOTUS decision, new legislation in New York would impose incredibly restrictive rules on NY gun owners, including the requirement to share one’s social media accounts’ information when applying for a gun permit.
The legislation’s many bans on where legal gun owners can carry is telling in light of data showing in 2019 that, since the 1950s, over 97% of mass shootings occurred in gun-free zones. Unsurprisingly, criminals who want to kill lots of people prefer not to go to zones where a law-abiding citizen can shoot them back. In other words, gun control benefits victimizers, not victims. Gun control does not stop criminals, but it does make citizens less free—and less safe.
“[New York Post] Your name, date of birth and Twitter handle, please?
The New York state Senate approved sweeping legislation Friday afternoon that would ban concealed weapons from so-called ‘sensitive locations’ like Times Square, public transit and other venues — while requiring gun permit applicants to give the state information about their social media accounts as well as character references.
‘This to me is the embodiment of what it means to be an American. In honor of our Fourth of July weekend, I look forward to signing the legislation as soon as it’s finished,’ Gov. Kathy Hochul said at a press conference following the vote.
The Assembly passed the bill Friday night and soon after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed it into law. . .‘This is a very nocturnal place,’ Hochul said of the final bill language dropping in the middle of the night – par for the course in a state Capitol where legislators often get little notice before votes on controversial bills. . .private businesses will be off-limits to firearms unless their owners post conspicuous signage indicating otherwise.
Weapons will also be barred from places of worship, public transit, sports arenas, parks, libraries, government buildings, playgrounds, entertainment venues, protests and businesses that serve alcohol, among other venues.”
Thomas Jefferson, citing another expert, once said that disarming the citizenry benefitted only assailants, not the assaulted; in other words, gun control benefits criminals, not victims. If you consider the hundreds of Americans being tortured in jail for trumped up Jan. 6 charges, as well as the current administration’s disinterest in any rights but the unconstitutional so-called “right” to an abortion, the US government could well be classified as an assailant. In which case, as I have previously noted, disarming the citizenry is extremely beneficial to the current corrupt, tyrannical regime.
Founding Father George Mason once said that the British government had been advised to “disarm the people” of America as the necessary and best way of “enslaving” them. Racists in America evidently agreed that gun control was connected to slavery. Racist gun laws and black disarmament movements reach back into the 1600s and had turned into veritable terrorism by the post-Civil War period. “Slave code” bans on black gun ownership, particularly slave gun ownership, was actually a tool of slaveowners to keep blacks oppressed. In the pre-Civil War South, even free black men were prevented from owning guns. In the post-Civil War South, newly freed slaves were at increased risk of horrific maltreatment and violence from former Confederates and white supremacists because of gun restrictions.
Black men who had fought as soldiers for the Union had guns post-war—but there was a very strong and violent movement to disarm these veterans. How could the reign of terror from the KKK and other groups continue if the black citizens of the South were armed? This history of gun control in America is a history of racism.
As the Founding Fathers recognized, the rights of the Constitution’s First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, etc.) depend on the right to keep and bear arms in the Second Amendment. The only thing stopping a tyrannical government from taking away rights is an armed citizenry.
You can read the NY legislation itself here, and how it requires, “A LIST OF FORMER AND CURRENT SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS OF THE APPLICANT FROM THE PAST THREE YEARS TO CONFIRM THE INFORMATION REGARDING THE APPLICANTS [sic] CHARACTER AND CONDUCT.” As you read, remember the Biden Homeland Security Department declared those who spread “false or misleading narratives” (that is, facts that contradict the current state-sanctioned narrative) to be domestic terrorists. New York is deliberately attacking Americans’ means of defending their rights and freedom from a tyrannical government.
Lawsuit, now!