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Photo of the Day: 66th Street and Columbus Avenue
Photo of the Day: 66th Street and Columbus Avenue
81 Comments
1 year ago
Good for her. She’s right
1 year ago
You don’t need to eliminate the second amendment to adopt reasonable regulations. It’s right there in 2A itself. Scalia’s interpretation contradicted prior interpretations going back to the founding (when the people who wrote the second amendment were still alive). It’s a travesty.
1 year ago
The only problem is that she’s a lone figure. In a city of over 8 million people, we should be able to find at least half-a-million to do the same thing on every street in this city. As someone who is very much for the repeal of the Second Amendment, I would enthusiastically join a group that would do the same in front of every Congressperson (and Supreme Court justice) who supports Heller.
1 year ago
Unfortunately, 8 million people in NY City – or 17 (?) million in the NY metropolitan area – can do virtually nothing to change the 2nd Amendment. There are more than 12 states whose legislatures will never vote to repeal it, and it takes 38 states.
1 year ago
You Scalia’s misinterpretation of the 2nd amendment, which constitutional illiterates like Clarence Thomas went along with.
Anyhow, gun ownership in the USA is a long term thing. What’s changed, especially in the last 30 years?
1 year ago
For one thing, the Federal Assault Weapons Ban expired in 2004.
1 year ago
The AR15 is not an assault weapon, because it can’t be used as a machine gun.
I assume that ban that expired said something about rapid semi-automatic fire combined with a pistol grip, and able to take a magazine with a capacity of more than 5.
What’s changed in the last 30 years, again?
1 year ago
So why do you need a group? Go do it.
1 year ago
Repeal of 2A? Aliens from another planet will land on the White House lawn before that happens. This country is not the upper west side.
1 year ago
The AR-15 is the most popular sporting rifle in the Country, there are untold millions of them. The registered part of the weapon is called a lower receiver, which can be bought for as low as $40.00. Many people have dozens of lowers just sitting in safes or boxes. Whether you like ARs or not, I’m taking a guess that most people reading this are in the NOT column. Most people who own them are simply not going to give them up, ever. Most people who own ARs are law abiding citizens. The AR-15 does not preform different than other rifles it simply LOOKS different. Take a look at the Ruger Mini-14 for example. It has a wooden stock so to some it looks less threatening. It is basically the same gun. New York passed The Safe Act and like any great piece of legislation it was passed in the middle of the night. It does make anyone safer. It bans the way a New York compliant rifle LOOKS. It does make it so ugly that fewer people want to own one. The shooting at the supermarket in Buffalo was done with a New York compliant AR. People who have no knowledge of firearms have no business writing firearm laws.
1 year ago
“People who have no knowledge of firearms have no business writing firearm laws” is such an elitist viewpoint…now if you want to actually talk gun laws, answer this question – how many lives are going to be taken in the hands of guns before we think about removing guns from society? What’s the exact number? Is it in the millions? What is it?
1 year ago
To call the AR-15 a “sporting rifle” is to call an M1A2 Abrams tank “a leisure vehicle.”
1 year ago
The AR15 and very other assault weapon is NOT used for hunting !! Only for assaulting, killing and maiming human beings. It is a weapon used in war.
1 year ago
Technically, since the AR15 is not automatic (a machine gun, unlike the M16 if set to auto), the AR15 is not an assault rifle. But it’s still also not a hunting rifle.
Right, its bullet was mostly designed to maim, not kill immediately.
1 year ago
The AR 15 is not used for hunting? Not in NY but many other places, Yes. Especially for wild pigs. The second amendment has nothing to do with hunting. The second amendment doesn’t give Americans the right to own firearms. The second amendment prevents the government from infringing on your RIGHT to own firearms. The people who wrote the second amendment did not just come back from a hunting trip. The just finished overthrowing a Government.
1 year ago
You “forgot” the “regulated militia” part of the Second Amendment.
You’re really saying that a much more powerful hunting rifle, like the Remmington 700, wouldn’t be much more apt for hunting wild pigs.
Oh, and when rented a room in Paris, the family had a shotgun by the door to take to the country home and shoot wild boar.
The 2nd Amendment was to arm state regulated militias, which were to be used in place of a standing army, and also sometimes for slave patrols.
1 year ago
You mean, the people whose world view was based on a muzzle-loaded musket? What were their precise views on guns shooting 100+ rounds per minute at unimaginable velocity? What about their thoughts on backpack-sized tactical nukes?
Educate us.
1 year ago
AR15s do not shoot at ‘unimaginable velocity’ they shoot at specific measurable velocity, which is generally just under 3000 feet per second, or, about 3x the velocity of a handgun. Many hunting rifles shoot heavier bullets at faster velocity.
1 year ago
During WWII the reason the Japanese did not invade west coast US . . . Americans were known to keep guns in their homes.
They wouldn’t have made it 50 miles inland thx to 2-A.
1 year ago
You poor thing; bless your heart.
1 year ago
Really? This is your understanding of the war in the Pacific? Or just more NRA nonsense?
1 year ago
Right, that’s why they never invaded the mainland US. I always wondered why they never did. I was thinking it had to do with the full might of the military stationed stateside and the ability to mobilize really quickly when it is on your home turf, but it could have been a bunch of people with hunting rifles in their homes. I mean, a shotgun loaded with double-O buck would turn a tank into mincemeat. Imagine what a 30-06 would do to an approaching Zero!
1 year ago
That’s laughable. Strategically, tactically, economically, logistically …
1 year ago
When we wanted to reduce DWI deaths we didn’t ban automobiles.
We focused on getting drunks off the road.
It worked!
Maybe, we should focus on the Nutjobs (often identifiable and identified prior by authorities but ignored) rather than the legally responsible who rarely are involved.
Cars don’t kill people, drunk drivers do. Guns don’t kill people, the mentally disturbed do.
Fact!
1 year ago
To get a driver’s license, you have to take a class, have behind the wheel instruction with a licensed driving instructor, have months of behind the wheel practice with a licensed driver in the passenger seat, take a written test, and then take a road test. What do you need to do to get a license for an AR-15?
1 year ago
But, to state facts, there still are drunk drivers getting behind the wheel and killing people. 32 people are killed every day by drunk drivers. That’s over 11,000 a year. You can’t completely stop it, only way to do that is take away the ability to drive. How do you do that? Eyesight. And I’m thinking that ain’t gonna happen. Everyone keeps ranting and raving: it’s the guns, it’s the guns, it’s the guns. No, it’s the people. You want common sense guns laws? Guns ain’t gonna vote on that. Our law makers are. And as long as WE keep sending the same old white guys back, no laws are going to be passed. Only way to get laws changed/passed is thru congress. Problem is there arnt enough folks out there pissed off to make that change. And frankly, there never will be.
1 year ago
Not sure how racism, sexism, and ageism will help your case.
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1 year ago
Cars are not designed to kill people. AR15’s are. And I really doubt anyone carries one around for self-protection. Which of the two could we do without?
1 year ago
hey Robert – this doesn’t happen in any other country in the world. There are “mentally disturbed” people all over the globe. America has more guns than people. Guns are the #1 cause of death of children in this country. IT’s THE GUNS. FACT!
1 year ago
Hey Karin, guns don’t shoot themselves.
1 year ago
Schools must have armed ex cops or ex military as security. Until that happens, this will continue forever. Too many mentally ill young adults in the USA who are suicidal and want to kill children. Face reality.
1 year ago
*several iterations later* only when we have a full Abrams tank battalion stationed at every school will our children be safe!
1 year ago
That may be true, but the folks against gun control are pretty much against *any* measures to instill gun safety including background checks, registration, classes, and even the study of the problem. They will not allow reasonable people to focus on *anything*.
1 year ago
Seatbelts save lives, speed limits save lives, auto body regulations save lives. Gun control and regulation can and do save lives.
Fact!
1 year ago
“An estimated 26% of Americans ages 18 and older — about 1 in 4 adults — suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.”
– https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/mental-health-disorder-statistics
That’s a lot of nutjobs to focus on.
1 year ago
Love it! I think we should also document UWS shootings, random assaults by homeless people, and assaults on pedestrians from bikes and scooters!
1 year ago
Where’s the equivalence? Between mass shootings with assault rifles and…your list. If you really want to document all the scary, nasty, injurious encounters you collect, or fear, you seem to do a fine job in pixel form, in the comments here. Maybe that is sufficient. Spare us the chalk.
1 year ago
Think globally. Act locally.
1 year ago
You can count the number of shootings with an assault rifle in New York City every year on both hands. Pistols are the tools of the trade here
1 year ago
Street art at its best! I believe our problem is that we have the best political leaders money can buy. That is why its imperative to get corporate money out of politics. Corporations are like a rogue AI taking over the world from the people and other life forms who live here, which brings us to the Citizens United ruling, AR15s, and campaign finance violations…. This is much more than about the First Amendment rights of those poor corporations, the Second Amendments rights of mass murderers, and Trump’s strumpet: we’re in need of a paradigm shift starting now with us the people and cannot stop until the deed be done.
1 year ago
Virtually all of these major issues – dirty money in politics, expansion of gun rights, suppression of voting rights – are the direct result of the election of Republicans who have been able to strongly tip the balance of the Supreme Court through just two very close elections (2000, 2016). All the so-called Democratic voters who weren’t sufficiently energized because of their dissatisfaction over minor issues (including not liking Hillary Clinton) share in the blame for where we are today. Look at how – finally – people are waking up to the reality of the abortion issue – especially young people. The abortion landscape was totally predictable years ago, but 30 years ago who was voting for president based primarily on judicial appointments? What we’re dealing with today is not the result of majority support by the voters, but razor-thin edges that take advantage of the non-democratic nature of how we put people in power. Trump won by what – 40,000 or so votes in three states? Imagine if Clinton had won: we’d have a 5-4 or 6-3 liberal majority on the Court today.
1 year ago
Repeal the 2nd amendment!
1 year ago
Nah fam. Not going to happen
1 year ago
Never will happen.
The 2nd was repealed in Nazi Germany.
And in Russia.
And North Korea.
Any many other non democratic states.
Look how that went.
1 year ago
I would like to know what history teacher taught you that. He or she should be fired!
1 year ago
I’ll bet Venezuela as well if they ever even had a 2nd.
1 year ago
Lol. They had a second amendment in those places? Interesting view of history you’ve got.
1 year ago
May not have had a second amnd. . but they had the right to own a gun until it was taken away.
1 year ago
Who needs an automatic weapon other than a soldier?
1 year ago
I believe AR15 is a SEMI automatic, which means a ban on automatic weapons would not cover them.
1 year ago
I’m not a gun owner, never have been. But the minute the government decides to ban them its the first thing I’ll buy. If you think a tyrannical government is impossible in this country you are unrealistic. Its always a possibility, Both parties have that potential. The presence of an armed citizenry is a check on government overreach.
1 year ago
And what will you do, in that case? Form a well regulated militia armed with AR-15s to go against …idk, a few divisions of professional soldiers with Abrams tanks, helicopter gunships, intelligence satellites and reaper drones?
You wouldn’t make it past the flashmob meetup point.
It’s the work we need to keep doing to preserve our democracy that will prevent this, not the buying or owning of weapons that do nothing but kill children – virtually every day mow.
1 year ago
Me. I shoot as a hobby. Been doing it since I was 10, so 30 years now. It’s a hobby alot of people have. Banning things never helps in any situation. Crazy people are going to be crazy no matter what. So why should millions of gun owners have their rights trampled on?
1 year ago
“Banning things never helps in any situation” — How about all the other countries that ban or restrict certain guns, and have few to zero mass shootings?
1 year ago
So, as your hobby, why not shoot .22 long? Why does it have to be a rifle designed to look like a military rifle firing a military bullet? Paper doesn’t care how big or fast the bullet is. Only flesh does.
1 year ago
Are you mentally ill? Have you been convicted of a felony? Have you been convicted of domestic abuse? Are you on the no fly list? If you answered no to these questions, then I would have no problem with your “hobby” but right now there are no federal gun control laws to keep guns from the those who have no business owning them.
1 year ago
Sorry, Orin. Your hobby involves a weapon designed to kill. Guns are a deadly problem in this country. If you’re unwilling to give up your “hobby,” that’s just pure selfishness.
1 year ago
powerful message
1 year ago
I wish it could be painted to last longer. Thank you for posting for all of us to see.
1 year ago
She’d better be careful or she’ll never be allowed to serve in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
1 year ago
I guess the endless gun incidents here in the city don’t fit the narrative.. nothing to see here
1 year ago
So true!
After they take all the AR15’s, what’s next?
1 year ago
Your refrigerator, of course.
1 year ago
She’s going to need more chalk.
1 year ago
You’re not sure of her motivation? I wish I could thank her in person!!
1 year ago
Both the Nashville and Louisville shooters were killed by guns. So should only law enforcement officers be allowed to have them? How would that be written in to law and enforced?
I’m from a rural area where my parents keep a shotgun in the kitchen in case they need to shoot to scare away bears. Should only people in remote areas be allowed to have guns? How would that be written in to law and enforced?
1 year ago
1) they wouldn’t have needed to be killed if they didn’t have guns
2) the guns that killed them were not in the hands of private citizens but in the hands of sworn police officers.
Easy – show a need for a firearm. Local police approve the type of firearm based on need. Hunter? Hunting rifles/shotguns. Carrying large amounts of cash for work? 9mm. Target shooting? Borrow weapons from licensed firing ranges. Rural home defense? Shotgun.
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1 year ago
FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS .
Charlton Heston, May 20, 2000
1 year ago
Charlton is dead.
1 year ago
Don’t quite understand why we don’t control the ammunition like alcohol. If you want ammunition for these weapons of war then you would have to go through a series of checks at your local police department including only being sold a minimum number of bullets. And at the end you must return the shell casings in order to renew your registration.
1 year ago
Of course she’s right, and everybody knows it.
I don’t know how we got to drunk drivers and seatbelt laws on this comment page. Just let her simple statement stand — No need to conflate it with other idiotic comparisons.
1 year ago
“April 19th is the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, “when Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto—many in their teens and twenties—launched a sustained guerrilla battle in response to a planned Nazi mass deportation to the death camps,”
How ironic that this article was posted directly under an article that would like to ban firearms.
1 year ago
Bravo for her! Yes, we should all be doing this. Better yet, pass law banning assault rifles….. overdue. We let the last one lapse, why?
1 year ago
Not likely to amend the amendment anytime soon, but we have to try.
1 year ago
I think we need to focus on getting the UWS right before we tell the rest of the nation how to live.
NOBODY outside this bubble thinks we have credibility.
1 year ago
@Jay and Lala
The AR15 is just a symbol of the war on guns in the pass 25/30 years… Americans love/hate it because it’s a very effective killing machine. It’s cheap and easy to buy.
In the pass few decades- 9/11 taught us how to be afraid, so we waged war for 20 years. The internet happened and some people were able to weaponize social media by creating different realities with “alternate facts”. Others were able to weaponize The Bible against the LGBTQ community. The AR15 is a very effective tool to carry out hate and anger on a personal level. Nuclear weapons don’t kill people. People with nuclear weapons kill people. I’m not sure what will tip the scale for the U.S. government to do anything symbolic when white toddlers are being shot up is normalized.
Humans don’t know what to do with themselves during a time of relative peace. Talk about mental health, who in the right mind starts an all out invasion of Ukraine in the middle of a pandemic? Keep an eye on Asia when both China and Taiwan are doing well economically.
“Top Gun” made $1.5B globally and came in second in 2022. The first place was a fantasy/animation.
1 year ago
Apparently after recent San Francisco experience we should also ban knives based on the comments here
London has had same issue with knives since guns are banned there. Stabbings are frequent.
Hmmmm . . . maybe it’s the Nutjob people, not the instrument.
1 year ago
I’m so tired of a country that rationalizes the vicious murder of their own people! We as in WE have the power to change these laws. Look at the protests in Paris over raising the retirement age from 62 to 64! The public certainly doesn’t sit on their derrieres and just moan their fate whether you agree with their objective or its result they are standing up. The citizens of Israel are not sitting on their tushes while efforts are underway at assaulting their democracy. But in America we hand over our responsibility to others to do what we feel we can’t do. That is not how a democracy works!! We all must get out there through non-violent protest, through phone calling, through letter writing and through voting and put the pressure on these lawmakers like was just done in Tennessee to fight to have these intransigent paid off “leaders” respect the rights of citizens to be safe from being murdered in their workplaces, their schools, their churches, their theaters and their homes!
Here this one woman makes a powerful statement against this insanity and stands up to fight for our rights!
1 year ago
Not knowing her motivation, is a really weird headline. These dates, places and guns used are facts. We should all be as outraged by them. Also, this is not, (sadly), the only time this person has dpne tjis at that corner. I thank her for the outrage. We should all be out there w chalk!
1 year ago
Great Photo
1 year ago
Maybe she write all the victims of violent crime in NYC the past few years but she run out of road and chawk.
Good for her. She’s right
You don’t need to eliminate the second amendment to adopt reasonable regulations. It’s right there in 2A itself. Scalia’s interpretation contradicted prior interpretations going back to the founding (when the people who wrote the second amendment were still alive). It’s a travesty.
The only problem is that she’s a lone figure. In a city of over 8 million people, we should be able to find at least half-a-million to do the same thing on every street in this city. As someone who is very much for the repeal of the Second Amendment, I would enthusiastically join a group that would do the same in front of every Congressperson (and Supreme Court justice) who supports Heller.
Unfortunately, 8 million people in NY City – or 17 (?) million in the NY metropolitan area – can do virtually nothing to change the 2nd Amendment. There are more than 12 states whose legislatures will never vote to repeal it, and it takes 38 states.
You Scalia’s misinterpretation of the 2nd amendment, which constitutional illiterates like Clarence Thomas went along with.
Anyhow, gun ownership in the USA is a long term thing. What’s changed, especially in the last 30 years?
For one thing, the Federal Assault Weapons Ban expired in 2004.
The AR15 is not an assault weapon, because it can’t be used as a machine gun.
I assume that ban that expired said something about rapid semi-automatic fire combined with a pistol grip, and able to take a magazine with a capacity of more than 5.
What’s changed in the last 30 years, again?
So why do you need a group? Go do it.
Repeal of 2A? Aliens from another planet will land on the White House lawn before that happens. This country is not the upper west side.
The AR-15 is the most popular sporting rifle in the Country, there are untold millions of them. The registered part of the weapon is called a lower receiver, which can be bought for as low as $40.00. Many people have dozens of lowers just sitting in safes or boxes. Whether you like ARs or not, I’m taking a guess that most people reading this are in the NOT column. Most people who own them are simply not going to give them up, ever. Most people who own ARs are law abiding citizens. The AR-15 does not preform different than other rifles it simply LOOKS different. Take a look at the Ruger Mini-14 for example. It has a wooden stock so to some it looks less threatening. It is basically the same gun. New York passed The Safe Act and like any great piece of legislation it was passed in the middle of the night. It does make anyone safer. It bans the way a New York compliant rifle LOOKS. It does make it so ugly that fewer people want to own one. The shooting at the supermarket in Buffalo was done with a New York compliant AR. People who have no knowledge of firearms have no business writing firearm laws.
“People who have no knowledge of firearms have no business writing firearm laws” is such an elitist viewpoint…now if you want to actually talk gun laws, answer this question – how many lives are going to be taken in the hands of guns before we think about removing guns from society? What’s the exact number? Is it in the millions? What is it?
To call the AR-15 a “sporting rifle” is to call an M1A2 Abrams tank “a leisure vehicle.”
The AR15 and very other assault weapon is NOT used for hunting !! Only for assaulting, killing and maiming human beings. It is a weapon used in war.
Technically, since the AR15 is not automatic (a machine gun, unlike the M16 if set to auto), the AR15 is not an assault rifle. But it’s still also not a hunting rifle.
Right, its bullet was mostly designed to maim, not kill immediately.
The AR 15 is not used for hunting? Not in NY but many other places, Yes. Especially for wild pigs. The second amendment has nothing to do with hunting. The second amendment doesn’t give Americans the right to own firearms. The second amendment prevents the government from infringing on your RIGHT to own firearms. The people who wrote the second amendment did not just come back from a hunting trip. The just finished overthrowing a Government.
You “forgot” the “regulated militia” part of the Second Amendment.
You’re really saying that a much more powerful hunting rifle, like the Remmington 700, wouldn’t be much more apt for hunting wild pigs.
Oh, and when rented a room in Paris, the family had a shotgun by the door to take to the country home and shoot wild boar.
The 2nd Amendment was to arm state regulated militias, which were to be used in place of a standing army, and also sometimes for slave patrols.
You mean, the people whose world view was based on a muzzle-loaded musket? What were their precise views on guns shooting 100+ rounds per minute at unimaginable velocity? What about their thoughts on backpack-sized tactical nukes?
Educate us.
AR15s do not shoot at ‘unimaginable velocity’ they shoot at specific measurable velocity, which is generally just under 3000 feet per second, or, about 3x the velocity of a handgun. Many hunting rifles shoot heavier bullets at faster velocity.
During WWII the reason the Japanese did not invade west coast US . . . Americans were known to keep guns in their homes.
They wouldn’t have made it 50 miles inland thx to 2-A.
You poor thing; bless your heart.
Really? This is your understanding of the war in the Pacific? Or just more NRA nonsense?
Right, that’s why they never invaded the mainland US. I always wondered why they never did. I was thinking it had to do with the full might of the military stationed stateside and the ability to mobilize really quickly when it is on your home turf, but it could have been a bunch of people with hunting rifles in their homes. I mean, a shotgun loaded with double-O buck would turn a tank into mincemeat. Imagine what a 30-06 would do to an approaching Zero!
That’s laughable. Strategically, tactically, economically, logistically …
When we wanted to reduce DWI deaths we didn’t ban automobiles.
We focused on getting drunks off the road.
It worked!
Maybe, we should focus on the Nutjobs (often identifiable and identified prior by authorities but ignored) rather than the legally responsible who rarely are involved.
Cars don’t kill people, drunk drivers do. Guns don’t kill people, the mentally disturbed do.
Fact!
To get a driver’s license, you have to take a class, have behind the wheel instruction with a licensed driving instructor, have months of behind the wheel practice with a licensed driver in the passenger seat, take a written test, and then take a road test. What do you need to do to get a license for an AR-15?
But, to state facts, there still are drunk drivers getting behind the wheel and killing people. 32 people are killed every day by drunk drivers. That’s over 11,000 a year. You can’t completely stop it, only way to do that is take away the ability to drive. How do you do that? Eyesight. And I’m thinking that ain’t gonna happen. Everyone keeps ranting and raving: it’s the guns, it’s the guns, it’s the guns. No, it’s the people. You want common sense guns laws? Guns ain’t gonna vote on that. Our law makers are. And as long as WE keep sending the same old white guys back, no laws are going to be passed. Only way to get laws changed/passed is thru congress. Problem is there arnt enough folks out there pissed off to make that change. And frankly, there never will be.
Not sure how racism, sexism, and ageism will help your case.
Cars are not designed to kill people. AR15’s are. And I really doubt anyone carries one around for self-protection. Which of the two could we do without?
hey Robert – this doesn’t happen in any other country in the world. There are “mentally disturbed” people all over the globe. America has more guns than people. Guns are the #1 cause of death of children in this country. IT’s THE GUNS. FACT!
Hey Karin, guns don’t shoot themselves.
Schools must have armed ex cops or ex military as security. Until that happens, this will continue forever. Too many mentally ill young adults in the USA who are suicidal and want to kill children. Face reality.
*several iterations later* only when we have a full Abrams tank battalion stationed at every school will our children be safe!
That may be true, but the folks against gun control are pretty much against *any* measures to instill gun safety including background checks, registration, classes, and even the study of the problem. They will not allow reasonable people to focus on *anything*.
Seatbelts save lives, speed limits save lives, auto body regulations save lives. Gun control and regulation can and do save lives.
Fact!
“An estimated 26% of Americans ages 18 and older — about 1 in 4 adults — suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.”
– https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/mental-health-disorder-statistics
That’s a lot of nutjobs to focus on.
Love it! I think we should also document UWS shootings, random assaults by homeless people, and assaults on pedestrians from bikes and scooters!
Where’s the equivalence? Between mass shootings with assault rifles and…your list. If you really want to document all the scary, nasty, injurious encounters you collect, or fear, you seem to do a fine job in pixel form, in the comments here. Maybe that is sufficient. Spare us the chalk.
Think globally. Act locally.
You can count the number of shootings with an assault rifle in New York City every year on both hands. Pistols are the tools of the trade here
Street art at its best! I believe our problem is that we have the best political leaders money can buy. That is why its imperative to get corporate money out of politics. Corporations are like a rogue AI taking over the world from the people and other life forms who live here, which brings us to the Citizens United ruling, AR15s, and campaign finance violations…. This is much more than about the First Amendment rights of those poor corporations, the Second Amendments rights of mass murderers, and Trump’s strumpet: we’re in need of a paradigm shift starting now with us the people and cannot stop until the deed be done.
Virtually all of these major issues – dirty money in politics, expansion of gun rights, suppression of voting rights – are the direct result of the election of Republicans who have been able to strongly tip the balance of the Supreme Court through just two very close elections (2000, 2016). All the so-called Democratic voters who weren’t sufficiently energized because of their dissatisfaction over minor issues (including not liking Hillary Clinton) share in the blame for where we are today. Look at how – finally – people are waking up to the reality of the abortion issue – especially young people. The abortion landscape was totally predictable years ago, but 30 years ago who was voting for president based primarily on judicial appointments? What we’re dealing with today is not the result of majority support by the voters, but razor-thin edges that take advantage of the non-democratic nature of how we put people in power. Trump won by what – 40,000 or so votes in three states? Imagine if Clinton had won: we’d have a 5-4 or 6-3 liberal majority on the Court today.
Repeal the 2nd amendment!
Nah fam. Not going to happen
Never will happen.
The 2nd was repealed in Nazi Germany.
And in Russia.
And North Korea.
Any many other non democratic states.
Look how that went.
I would like to know what history teacher taught you that. He or she should be fired!
I’ll bet Venezuela as well if they ever even had a 2nd.
Lol. They had a second amendment in those places? Interesting view of history you’ve got.
May not have had a second amnd. . but they had the right to own a gun until it was taken away.
Who needs an automatic weapon other than a soldier?
I believe AR15 is a SEMI automatic, which means a ban on automatic weapons would not cover them.
I’m not a gun owner, never have been. But the minute the government decides to ban them its the first thing I’ll buy. If you think a tyrannical government is impossible in this country you are unrealistic. Its always a possibility, Both parties have that potential. The presence of an armed citizenry is a check on government overreach.
And what will you do, in that case? Form a well regulated militia armed with AR-15s to go against …idk, a few divisions of professional soldiers with Abrams tanks, helicopter gunships, intelligence satellites and reaper drones?
You wouldn’t make it past the flashmob meetup point.
It’s the work we need to keep doing to preserve our democracy that will prevent this, not the buying or owning of weapons that do nothing but kill children – virtually every day mow.
Me. I shoot as a hobby. Been doing it since I was 10, so 30 years now. It’s a hobby alot of people have. Banning things never helps in any situation. Crazy people are going to be crazy no matter what. So why should millions of gun owners have their rights trampled on?
“Banning things never helps in any situation” — How about all the other countries that ban or restrict certain guns, and have few to zero mass shootings?
So, as your hobby, why not shoot .22 long? Why does it have to be a rifle designed to look like a military rifle firing a military bullet? Paper doesn’t care how big or fast the bullet is. Only flesh does.
Are you mentally ill? Have you been convicted of a felony? Have you been convicted of domestic abuse? Are you on the no fly list? If you answered no to these questions, then I would have no problem with your “hobby” but right now there are no federal gun control laws to keep guns from the those who have no business owning them.
Sorry, Orin. Your hobby involves a weapon designed to kill. Guns are a deadly problem in this country. If you’re unwilling to give up your “hobby,” that’s just pure selfishness.
powerful message
I wish it could be painted to last longer. Thank you for posting for all of us to see.
She’d better be careful or she’ll never be allowed to serve in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
I guess the endless gun incidents here in the city don’t fit the narrative.. nothing to see here
So true!
After they take all the AR15’s, what’s next?
Your refrigerator, of course.
She’s going to need more chalk.
You’re not sure of her motivation? I wish I could thank her in person!!
Both the Nashville and Louisville shooters were killed by guns. So should only law enforcement officers be allowed to have them? How would that be written in to law and enforced?
I’m from a rural area where my parents keep a shotgun in the kitchen in case they need to shoot to scare away bears. Should only people in remote areas be allowed to have guns? How would that be written in to law and enforced?
1) they wouldn’t have needed to be killed if they didn’t have guns
2) the guns that killed them were not in the hands of private citizens but in the hands of sworn police officers.
Easy – show a need for a firearm. Local police approve the type of firearm based on need. Hunter? Hunting rifles/shotguns. Carrying large amounts of cash for work? 9mm. Target shooting? Borrow weapons from licensed firing ranges. Rural home defense? Shotgun.
FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS .
Charlton Heston, May 20, 2000
Charlton is dead.
Don’t quite understand why we don’t control the ammunition like alcohol. If you want ammunition for these weapons of war then you would have to go through a series of checks at your local police department including only being sold a minimum number of bullets. And at the end you must return the shell casings in order to renew your registration.
Of course she’s right, and everybody knows it.
I don’t know how we got to drunk drivers and seatbelt laws on this comment page. Just let her simple statement stand — No need to conflate it with other idiotic comparisons.
“April 19th is the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943, “when Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto—many in their teens and twenties—launched a sustained guerrilla battle in response to a planned Nazi mass deportation to the death camps,”
How ironic that this article was posted directly under an article that would like to ban firearms.
Bravo for her! Yes, we should all be doing this. Better yet, pass law banning assault rifles….. overdue. We let the last one lapse, why?
Not likely to amend the amendment anytime soon, but we have to try.
I think we need to focus on getting the UWS right before we tell the rest of the nation how to live.
NOBODY outside this bubble thinks we have credibility.
@Jay and Lala
The AR15 is just a symbol of the war on guns in the pass 25/30 years… Americans love/hate it because it’s a very effective killing machine. It’s cheap and easy to buy.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/us/politics/ar-15-americas-rifle.html&ved=2ahUKEwiTubSfn6T-AhX3kGoFHRnWAQkQFnoECBsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0jIPLn5NBKjZ2vcOYSkg8S
In the pass few decades- 9/11 taught us how to be afraid, so we waged war for 20 years. The internet happened and some people were able to weaponize social media by creating different realities with “alternate facts”. Others were able to weaponize The Bible against the LGBTQ community. The AR15 is a very effective tool to carry out hate and anger on a personal level. Nuclear weapons don’t kill people. People with nuclear weapons kill people. I’m not sure what will tip the scale for the U.S. government to do anything symbolic when white toddlers are being shot up is normalized.
Humans don’t know what to do with themselves during a time of relative peace. Talk about mental health, who in the right mind starts an all out invasion of Ukraine in the middle of a pandemic? Keep an eye on Asia when both China and Taiwan are doing well economically.
“Top Gun” made $1.5B globally and came in second in 2022. The first place was a fantasy/animation.
Apparently after recent San Francisco experience we should also ban knives based on the comments here
London has had same issue with knives since guns are banned there. Stabbings are frequent.
Hmmmm . . . maybe it’s the Nutjob people, not the instrument.
I’m so tired of a country that rationalizes the vicious murder of their own people! We as in WE have the power to change these laws. Look at the protests in Paris over raising the retirement age from 62 to 64! The public certainly doesn’t sit on their derrieres and just moan their fate whether you agree with their objective or its result they are standing up. The citizens of Israel are not sitting on their tushes while efforts are underway at assaulting their democracy. But in America we hand over our responsibility to others to do what we feel we can’t do. That is not how a democracy works!! We all must get out there through non-violent protest, through phone calling, through letter writing and through voting and put the pressure on these lawmakers like was just done in Tennessee to fight to have these intransigent paid off “leaders” respect the rights of citizens to be safe from being murdered in their workplaces, their schools, their churches, their theaters and their homes!
Here this one woman makes a powerful statement against this insanity and stands up to fight for our rights!
Not knowing her motivation, is a really weird headline. These dates, places and guns used are facts. We should all be as outraged by them. Also, this is not, (sadly), the only time this person has dpne tjis at that corner. I thank her for the outrage. We should all be out there w chalk!
Great Photo
Maybe she write all the victims of violent crime in NYC the past few years but she run out of road and chawk.