Good Samaritans must beware of such as Cuomo.

A commentator today wished for  more Matt Wennerstroms:  Mr. Wennerstrom courageously aided and saved the lives of ,several who might otherwise have been shot by the gunman in Thousand Oaks, CA. Now pay attention, Andrew Cuomo, that is if you can refrain from preening and planning your latest crusade to disarm the lawful.

Though apparently Mr. Wennerstrom did not use a gun to defend the unarmed, it is conceivable that armed citizens have contemplated, either in anticipation of the possibility or in the intensity of such a moment, actually using armed force to attempt to stop a monster. Since it is impossible to carry an AR-15 or a 12 Gauge concealed regularly, the heroic citizen will probably be out gunned by a subhuman bent on mass murder. He or she will probably face great physical danger by intervening. But that is not the only extreme hazard faced by those willing to risk all to protect others.

In New York State the minute you draw a licensed firearm, your life is threatened with complete and onerous change at the hands of a government determined to treat gunowners as guilty until proven innocent.   I do not at all fault most police and Sheriffs in NYS for this; they do their duty  of enforcing, not making law, faithfully. But leftist dominated government in NY, including many prosecutors, manifests one of the fondest of leftist dreams - the complete disarmament of the law abiding public. The certainty that they cannot do this to the criminal element is of no moment to them; it is plausible to think that that is, to some of them, just.  Too much you say? Consider the British farmer who was as insolent as to finally make armed defense of his repeatedly assaulted person and property,  did hard time for it and was sued at public expense by his attackers.  That was in Britain, one of the most advanced of democracies but lacking a Second Amendment and NRA.

Oh that pesky Constitution; you know, leftists often think like the criminals for whom they have such sympathy; by golly, when they like a Constitutional right its a RIGHT (like the right to scald or dismember unborn humans, even on the cusp of birth). Ehh,but if they don't like it, why its a privilege which can be withdrawn by government at will.  Funny isn't it, how the left finds in the "penumbras and emanations" of the Constitution a tenuously and  ghoulishly established "right" like abortion but when the very Second Amendment is invoked, become devoted but highly selective "strict constructionists" maintaining that only organized militias can touch firearms and then preferably only those in use in 1787.  The left relishes the prospect of subjects unable to resist when leftists take over , as the leftists surely intend and it dreams that to enact ever more restrictive gun control will be to discredit the NRA, which the left knows to be very effective in support of candidates and office holders conservative on a wide range of issues also and aside from gun rights.

But for now, not withstanding, the Second Amendment forces the left to innovate other means to advance its  goal of  reducing the reprehensible American polity to peonage, largely through rendering it defenseless. New York is a good example of it.  It has Cuomo's"toughist in the nation" sanctions on law abiding gun owners (but not, God forbid, on cop killers). Since the election enabled Cuomo's ascension to dictatorship, many more restrictions, meant only to discourage the lawful and encourage their exodus and giggled at by criminals, are imminent.  Coupled with these is the continuing refusal to protect those lawful and of good will should they venture to actually use their Constitutionally protected  firearms to protect themselves, their families or the innocent. NY (read NY City) just elected a radical leftist Attorney General who will hasten to punish DAs who are less than zealous in taking good samaritans to task.  Imagine having to use your own financial resources to defend yourself, against the infinite wealth of heavily taxed NY, for having selflessly come to the aid of  the victims of some  sociopathic yeg. In most of the rest of the country you can buy NRA insurance to help you pay for your defense over defending yourself or others but such protection is outlawed in NY, courtesy of you know who!    Could this be a deterrant to those with the physical courage to face savages? Uh, I think so .  Could it discourage those who look on such as Matt Wennerstrom for example?  Well,yes! Let us pray for more Matt Wennerstroms and resolutely oppose those who would punish ones who, in response to atrocities generated by the moral breakdown of our society, would emulate him.  Andrew Cuomo forced his unconstitutional "Safe Act" restrictions on gunowners through the legislature in the middle of the night by pleading a necessity arisen from mass shootings.  That he was insincere in this concern is shown by his active opposition to legal protection for those who have the guts to use firearms in the defense of the threatened. 

Why do I cite NY? Because it realistically predicts what is in store for the rest of  America should it carelessly admit radicals like Cuomo or his ilk to national power. We in the real America must assume that any accomodation of the resolutely and demonstrably far leftist Democrat party will expose our entire country to what is now assuredly in store for New Yorkers.  Now, an increasingly law abiding Federal judiciary may ultimately save us but meanwhile we  in NY will bleed. Take heed America!    Jack