In the aftermath of the storm, some residents are coming to the realization that they alone are responsible for their own personal safety and are acting accordingly:
“… Ever since Sandy strafed the Queens peninsula and tore up the boardwalk, it’s become an often lawless place where cops are even scarcer than electrical power and food. Locals say they are arming themselves with guns, baseball bats, booby traps — even a bow and arrow — to defend against looters …
This is just common sense, something Mayor Bloomberg sorely lacks. His solution was to shove his head further up his own butt and decline assistance from the National Guard because they carry guns:
“… “We don’t need it,” Mayor Bloomberg said on Wednesday during a press update on the city’s ongoing Hurricane Sandy cleanup. “The NYPD is the only people we want on the street with guns.” …”
It should be blindly obvious that Bloomberg’s approach is not working.
It is too soon to see if this will translate in legislative action to reform New York’s gun laws next session.