It doesn’t seem like the idea that guns aren’t really the problem, people are, would be a contentious point. After all, no one seems to believe that a gun just randomly goes off and kills people. No one buys the idea that guns make people homicidal, either.
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Yet some people are absolutely convinced that the issue is that guns are available. I guess they figure it’s far better to be stabbed 24 times than be shot or something.
Regardless, the issue is and will always be people. It doesn’t help when prosecutors don’t seem interested in doing anything about the people when they’re caught.
Such as this…ahem…gentleman in New York.
A Big Apple migrant armed with a loaded AR-15 assault rifle and his Mexican cartel pal are both back on the streets — despite allegedly ganging up on NYPD cops at a Bronx subway station.
Abraham Sosa, 20, a migrant living above a Bronx day care center, was hit with assault, gun possession, resisting arrest and trespassing charges after being nabbed urinating in a subway tunnel on Nov. 5 — while lugging the assault weapon in his backpack, according to sources and records.
His pal, 21-year-old Christopher Mayren, allegedly jumped into the fray when Sosa got into a scuffle with New York’s Finest, leaving two cops injured, according to a criminal complaint.
Yet both thugs are free, Sosa after posting a $25,000 bond and Mayren released without bail.
Apparently, Mayren had a tattoo on his arm typically associated with one of the Mexican cartels.
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One had an AR-15 in a backpack in a state where they’re not legally allowed, in the hands of a “migrant” who, unless he’s here legally–something the Post wasn’t sure of, but I suspect neither of them are–cannot lawfully own a firearm no matter what.
And they just let them walk.
“This is crazy,” one frustrated Bronx detective told The Post Thursday. “You have a member of a Mexican cartel running around. That tattoo is a billboard for ‘I am a criminal. I don’t care about your laws.’
“Can it get more dangerous than riding a subway with a loaded rifle? And when he’s not on a train, he’s upstairs from little children in the day care center,” they said. “These are two very dangerous scenarios.”
It was not immediately clear if one or both of the suspects are in the US illegally.
Now, I’m not actually inclined to assume that the mere presence of a firearm makes anything more dangerous. However, the leadership in New York City and state both tend to feel differently. They view guns as the problem, the presence of which makes everything riskier.
They take issue with how easily people can get guns in other states. They want people in other states to have to deal with more restrictions because of New York’s crime. They’re anti-gun to an insane extreme, and they just let a guy walking around with an AR-15 in a backpack go.
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It’s kind of hard to take their anti-gun rhetoric seriously now, isn’t it?
Especially when we pretty well know this was an illegal immigrant in possession of a firearm that’s really not legal for pretty much anyone who didn’t already have one when the state’s ban went into effect. Yet this guy got one and now he’s just walking around.
For me, having the gun isn’t exactly bed-wetting.
Or it wouldn’t be if there was any reason to believe he was just a law-abiding citizen exercising his Second Amendment rights. He isn’t, and New York seems far more alarmed by someone like Dexter Taylor who made guns for his own use than a “migrant” with apparent ties to a drug cartel.
