Does NY’s SAFE Act Impact The Sick? Sure Looks Like It

By Tom Knighton

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New York’s SAFE Act is problematic on so many levels it’s not even funny. It’s probably the most anti-gun piece of legislation we’ve seen in a long, long time. The sweeping gun control act created a lot of different regulations, and none of them are good.

What’s worse is that while we know the cost of gun control is born by the law-abiding and not criminals who create the problems in the first place, it’s especially problematic when the law seems to hurt those who are also vulnerable to those criminals.

Like a sick, elderly woman.

“We just want to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and others who should not have them.”

That’s the mantra every time Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other politicians snooker the public with “reasonable” gun control measures like the SAFE Act or the plethora of bills Democrats have unleashed since taking full control of Albany.

But the next time you hear that political poppycock, remember Lois Reid.

Reid is not a criminal, a terrorist or a madwoman.

She’s just a 71-year-old law-abiding citizen who was stripped of her guns for five years because …Read the Rest

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