{"id":11106,"date":"2015-01-01T16:06:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11106"},"modified":"2015-01-01T16:06:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:06:01","slug":"excerpts-from-cuomos-second-inaugural-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=11106","title":{"rendered":"Excerpts from Cuomo\u2019s second inaugural address"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some gun excerpts from Gov. Cuomo’s second inaugural address<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“… we made New York safer by passing sensible gun control … After Sandy Hook when we saw the massacre and we saw the children killed and we said, enough is enough with this lunacy of guns, and you needed a big state to pass sensible gun control who did it?\u00a0 The State of New York did it.\u00a0 We did it first.\u00a0 That is who we are and that is what we come from …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um, no, we’re not actually safer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“The number of shooting victims has skyrocketed across the city this year \u2014 up 43 percent in just the last month \u2014 while fewer guns are coming off the streets, NYPD<\/a> statistics reveal … In the last month alone, 129 people were shot, according to the latest CompStat figures, or 43.3 percent more than for the same period last year.\u00a0 Since January, there has been an overall 13.2 percent increase in shooting victims, while 10.2 percent fewer guns have been recovered compared to 2013 …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n