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NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today met with Starbucks workers at the Elmwood Avenue store in Buffalo to discuss their historic unionization and their ongoing efforts to protect workers. She was joined by State Senator Timothy M. Kennedy and Gary Bonadonna of Workers United.
(AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane) I understand that, for many New Yorkers, the idea of carrying around a gun for self-defense sounds utterly bizarre, especially since the state has made it so difficult for the average citizen to do so. Still, an argument by the editors of the Long Island paper Newsday is off target in arguing that the “culture shock” that would come with a Supreme Court opinion striking down the state’s “may-issue” licensing laws for carry permits. Tough restrictions on the ability of New Yorkers to legally carry guns in public have been embedded in local habit and prac...