“It sends a terrible message,” said a source who said they witnessed Fraser carrying a pistol while on the job. “It freaks people out when they see he has a gun.”
“Fraser’s decision to carry a gun to work also contradicts the code of conduct for the agency”
“Employees shall not possess a firearm or any other dangerous weapon while on or off-duty on or in Department premises, property, vehicle, or equipment,” that document states."
“This isn’t Texas. It’s New York City,” the source told The News.
“When it gets in full stride — a year from now, you know, a year and a half from now, and you start to see a substantial uptick in guns and people carrying guns — it’s going to be hard,” Adams said at the time, predicting the impact the decision would have moving forward. “Knowing that you can be in Times Square, and, you know, hundreds, thousands of people can carry a weapon, then how do you police that?”
For the life of me, I can not understand what part of The Constitution of The United States and the meaning of Rulings from The Supreme Court of The United States they don’t understand.
Your own fears, your own ignorance is not a position for the implementation of laws. All I can say about this is, Thank God for The Great State of Utah.
Sounds like the Tech Chief is a man that cares about his safety. As I reread the editorial, I am reminded of the term we seem to forget: Parabellum. It’s okay to be hopeful, but we’d better have a firm grasp of the reality on the ground. We do not live in a Utopian society. Again, a big thumbs up to the Tech Chief.
@David237
When you’re asked to support idiotic policies, you get fearful of the results and common sense kicks in.
If thousands of people are in Times Square are armed and 90% of them are responsible citizens, the other 10% think long and hard about their actions, because there are no more SOFT targets!
The other 10% think long and hard about the myth that it takes a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun. Even the myth can save lives. Just another way of saying it.
That is why I carry 24/7 will not go any where un protected,what do you think concealed means,and the way I carry I do not print at all even twisting or bent over,the only place i will not go is if there a metal detector or they wand you,I always refuse the metal detector and choose the wand since I have a pace maker with De-fibulabular i only do that if I have to go in and they have lock boxes in the lobby
It’s sad and funny that with all of NYC’s major problems, the thing they’re most concerned about is a tech executive (who happens to be a black man) who is able to defend his own life.
I’m also curious about that city policy that denies employees the ability to carry a firearm off-duty. I suspect a normal court would have a problem with that, but this is NYC, I guess.
I’ve found that in places where I may have to identify as a Concealed Carrier that I wind up talking like I am trying to talk someone out of jumping off of a building. Trying to reassure them before they see my “scary” firearms.
It’s quite aggravating honestly. But better than being unarmed I guess.
It has gotten silly the logic pretzels you wind up needing to reassure fragile psyche’s at this point in our society.
Missed this threads original start. So arise ye thread of old. I command thee in the name of my boredom.
Well, in the spirit of resurrecting a comatose thread following @Zavier_D 's lead, just commenting on the
original article…
What I find terrifying is the idea of thousands of people in Times Square and only ONE has a gun, and he’s a criminal. In the words of the NYC mayor, how do you police THAT??
We as pro 2A people really need to talk to everyone we can about gun use, carry, safety, rights, and the inability of police to prevent crime. The cops in Times Square can go after the bad guy after he does his damage, but they’re powerless to stop him in the first place. People need to understand that, and rught now, too many don’t.
We need to make guns and the ordinary people who carry them less scary to the uninformed. No being the quiet gray man all the time.
I thought you were perfectly clear. Just wanted to point out to any anti self defense folks and all the ATF agents reading these posts that their policies usually have the opposite effect of what they claim they are trying to achieve.
