{"id":31588,"date":"2012-11-04T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31588"},"modified":"2012-11-03T21:25:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T02:25:28","slug":"being-necessary-to-the-security-of-a-free-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31588","title":{"rendered":"Being Necessary To The Security Of A Free State"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Yorkers, disarmed by generations of nannystate government, are more or less helpless as those who\u00a0disregarded\u00a0<\/em>the city’s gun control laws flow into the vacuum left when the city’s veneer of civilization – cops and “the system” – got blown away last week.<\/p>\n

Residents in parts of Queens – where law enforcement is as scarce as power – are trying to “arm” themselves<\/a> as looters and armed robbers prowl the neigbhorhood:<\/p>\n

Thugs have been masquerading as Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) workers, knocking on doors in the dead of night. But locals say the real workers have been nowhere in sight, causing at least one elected official \u2014 who fears a descent into anarchy if help doesn\u2019t arrive soon \u2014 to call for the city to investigate the utility…<\/p>\n

…\u201cWe booby-trapped our door and keep a baseball bat beside our bed,\u201d said Danielle Harris, 34, rummaging through donated supplies as children rode scooters along half-block chunk of the boardwalk that had marooned into the middle of Beach 91st St.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe heard gunshots for three nights in a row,\u201d said Harris, who believed they came from the nearby housing projects.<\/p>\n

Carly Ruggieri, 27, who lives in water-damaged house on the block, said she barricades her door with a bed frame. \u201cThere have been people in power department uniforms knocking on doors and asking if they\u2019re okay, but at midnight.\u201d<\/p>\n

And another local surfer said he has knives, a machete and a bow and arrow on the ready. Gunshots and slow-rolling cars have become a common fixture of the night since Hurricane Sandy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When owning guns is a crime, only criminals will have guns (and the Department of Homeland Security isn’t wild about people stockpiling food<\/a>, either).<\/p>\n

So demented is Mayor Bloomberg – an Obama-endorsing Quisling pseudo-Republican – that he doesn’t even want the National Guard going into Brooiklyn. \u00a0Too many guns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mayor Bloomberg has snubbed Borough President Markowitz\u2019s impassioned plea to bring the National Guard to Hurricane Sandy-scarred Brooklyn \u2014 arguing that approving the Beep\u2019s request would be a waste of federal manpower and turn the borough into a police state.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t need it,\u201d Mayor Bloomberg said on Wednesday during a press update on the city\u2019s ongoing Hurricane Sandy cleanup. \u201cThe NYPD is the only people we want on the street with guns.\u201d<\/p>\n

Markowitz demanded the National Guard\u2019s help just an hour before Bloomberg\u2019s press conference, claiming that the NYPD and FDNY are \u201cbrave \u2014 but overwhelmed\u201d by all the challenges Sandy brought when it visited the borough on Monday night: flooding, power outages, and looting.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of our resources have been stretched to the limit,\u201d Markowitz said. \u201cIn the name of public safety we need to send more National Guard personnel into Coney Island, Manhattan Beach, Gerritsen Beach, Red Hook, and any other locations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Markowitz hopes that the sight of an armed soldier would deter criminal activity in the still-unaccessible evacuation zones \u2014 such as the rash of break-ins that took place in Coney Island hours after Sandy kissed the borough goodbye \u2014 but the Mayor said the NYPD was more than capable of handling the job.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are plenty of locations upstate and in surrounding states where they don\u2019t have a police department the size of New York and they can use help [from the National Guard],\u201d said Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

Markowitz said he was surprised by the Mayor\u2019s response, but was sticking to his guns.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe stand by our statement 100 percent,\u201d said Markowitz spokesman John Hill. \u201cWe hope the governor will listen to our request.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It might scare the thugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Yorkers, disarmed by generations of nannystate government, are more or less helpless as those who\u00a0disregarded\u00a0the city’s gun control laws flow into the vacuum left when the city’s veneer of civilization – cops and “the system” – got blown away last week. Residents in parts of Queens – where law enforcement is as scarce as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-modern-plagues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31590,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31588\/revisions\/31590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}