Concealed carry in NYC
An off-duty police killed one of two men who attacked the desk clerk of a luxury building in Chinatown late last night. Detective Martin Carrano, 36, was also stabbed in the neck and back; his injuries, as were the desk clerk’s, were non-life-threatening.
Good thing someone was armed. In NYC, only the police and the rich and famous are lawfully armed.
From guav, who emails: Of course, if NYC allowed CCW and he had been a “regular” citizen who was armed, he never could have stopped the attack—he probably would have started firing wildly in all directions, killing the attack victim and several innocent bystanders in the process before being disarmed by the attackers and shot with his own weapon.
May 30th, 2008 at 8:53 am
I forgot to add that if in the event that the armed citizen managed to hit the attacker by some stroke of luck, he would surely then be mistakenly killed by the police—who are excellent marksmen—as soon as they arrived on the scene (which of course, luckily, will be while the attack is still occurring).
Clearly, no mere citizen could ever have acted as calmly and coolly as this law enforcement officer did. We’re just a bunch of yahoos, after all.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:42 am
OMG! Wake up! All he had to do was tackle the guy with the knife.
Why am I the one who has to do all the heavy lifting around here?
May 30th, 2008 at 10:17 am
For some reason, after reading guav’s email in the post, my mind added ” while soiling himself,” to the end.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Weisenheimer, in addition to defecating in his drawers, he also probably would have been screaming as he spray-fired his automatic handgun from the hip (holding it sideways, of course).
May 30th, 2008 at 11:04 am
What about the shoulder thing that goes up?
May 30th, 2008 at 11:56 am
…’cause, you know, the NYPD has such a good record of never shooting the wrong guy.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
What if we separated the lower from The Thing That Goes Up(r)? That way we could carry them around and bludgeon rapists and carjackers with The Thing That Goes Up(r) if they attack us?
It’s kind of like Monty Python’s Machine That Goes Ping.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I was going to say that NY now honors other state’s CCWs but the story keeps changing.