4 Dead, 3 Injured In Brooklyn Mass Shooting

By Tom Knighton

The hardest place in the United States to get a firearm is New York City. All five boroughs that make up the Big Apple all fall under the same draconian gun control regulations that make it virtually impossible to own and carry a firearm. It’s so bad people have taken to bribing police officials to help with their permit process.

Yet crime is still an issue.

While it’s not as bad as it has been in the past, it’s still a problem. Frankly, it always will be. This despite more than a century of tough gun laws.

In fact, those gun laws didn’t prevent a mass shooting in Brooklyn, either.

Four people were killed and three injured in a Saturday morning shooting at an illegal gambling site in Brooklyn, New York police said.

The shooting happened before 7 a.m. on Utica Avenue in the Crown Heights area, NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot F. Shea said at a media briefing Saturday.

Shea described the scene as “chaotic” when officers first responded.

Two firearms were recovered and there’s evidence of at least 15 shots fired, he said, adding that more firearms may be found.

The victims range in age from 32 to 49 years old. Four men …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms