eye on the news A Self-Inflicted Crisis Declaring a gun-violence emergency, Governor Cuomo won’t face certain inconvenient causes of rising violent crime. Politics and law New York 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.”