CCRKBA: NY SUBWAY MACHETE ATTACK PROVES PUBLIC DISARMAMENT INSANITY
BELLEVUE, WA – Saturday’s bloody New York subway attack by a machete-wielding man who reportedly called himself “Lucifer” provided further evidence that restrictive New York gun laws which disarm the public amounts to legislative insanity, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms declared.
The suspect, identified as 44-year-old Anthony Griffin, was fatally shot by police. Officers had ordered him repeatedly to drop the machete, but instead he approached them with weapon in hand, so they fired. The year started with a crime surge in January and February, with a decline in March and April, but this attack was clear evidence that danger in the subways remains a very real threat.
“Three people were seriously wounded in this attack,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “and they could have been killed. Fortunately, armed police responded and shot the suspect, but a legally-armed private citizen might have acted faster. This deranged person was able to start his attack simply because he picked a gun-free environment where none of his victims had even a remote chance of fighting back.
“Once again,” he continued, “the pathetic nature of public disarmament regulations is on full display. Nobody should have to wait for help to arrive when mayhem is unfolding before their very eyes, but New York’s restrictive gun laws force honest citizens to do precisely that: Wait and do nothing.”
The attack happened Saturday morning at Midtown Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal. Even more unsettling, Gottlieb observed, was that Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch acknowledged the suspect had three prior arrests.
“It is clear this guy had a behavior pattern which got him into trouble before,” Gottlieb said, “yet here he was, in a public place, armed with a deadly weapon, attacking people. And let’s not forget how New York law prevented those other people from having the means to defend themselves and others when this man’s violent nature exploded.
“The blood of his victims is on the hands of New York City officials and politicians in Albany who fight to keep their citizens unarmed, and at the mercy of madmen who don’t understand what that word means,” he concluded.
