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Andrew Cuomo, even Bill de Blasio all say the same thing, ‘the epidemic is gun violence,’ Loesch began. If you can sit here and characterize the willful choices of a criminal compared to a law-abiding gun owner and say that that is a health epidemic and treat it like public health policy, you can do that with anything. It s ludicrous.
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Cuomo on Tuesday outlined several steps the state plans to implement to quell the bloodshed, particularly that which affects at-risk youth, after a bloody Independence Day weekend. The New York Democrat called gun violence a public health emergency and, with that, announced that he would be creating an Office of Gun Violence Prevention within the Department of Health.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a new executive order declaring the nation s first disaster emergency over gun violence following dozens of shootings reported over the Fourth of July holiday.
On Tuesday, July 6, Cuomo made the declaration in New York City, noting that the state has gone from one crisis to the next having largely conquered COVID-19.
“We went from one epidemic to another epidemic, he said. We went from COVID to the epidemic of gun violence. More people are dying of gun violence than of COVID.”
Cuomo made note that over the Fourth of July weekend, more people died from gun violence than they did from COVID-19. Nationally, at least 233 people were killed and more than 600 were injured in hundreds of shootings over the weekend.
PUBLISHED 8:39 PM ET Jul. 07, 2021 PUBLISHED 8:39 PM EDT Jul. 07, 2021
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In certain areas of New York, gun violence this year is at its highest level since the early 2000s.
Over the Fourth of July weekend, 51 people were shot across New York state, compared to 13 people who died from COVID-19. For a state that was once considered the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Andrew Cuomo says the state now needs to turn its attention to a different sort of epidemic.
Cuomo on Tuesday declared a first of its kind state of emergency around gun violence and committed almost $139 million to addressing root causes that could have led to this rise in violence around the state.
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A Self-Inflicted Crisis Declaring a gun-violence emergency, Governor Cuomo won’t face certain inconvenient causes of rising violent crime.
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New York governor Andrew Cuomo declared a “gun violence disaster emergency” this week. Cuomo said he would pattern New York’s efforts to contain the sharp increase in shootings on its victory over Covid-19. “New York,” the governor explained, “is going to lead the nation once again with a comprehensive approach to combating and preventing gun violence, and our first step is acknowledging the problem with a first-in-the-nation disaster emergency on gun violence.”