Waking up to the fact that voters are worried about crime, scandal-battered Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday lurched for some good headlines by dropping an executive order declaring a statewide gun-violence emergency.
But his initiatives were all plainly chosen with an eye on not offending lefty sensibilities (after all, the hard-left Assembly still has an impeachment probe going). They wonât do much to turn the tide that over the holiday weekend saw 14 shot in Buffalo, five in Syracuse and 26 in New York City in the latest statewide surge in gun crime.
To do that, heâd need to start working to un-do all the foolish laws passed on his watch. But thereâs not a word in his long release about fixing the disastrous bail reforms that he so proudly signed onto â not even the one that guaranteed that nobody would see jail time âjustâ because he got caught with an illegal gun.
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