In New York City, a would-be robber attacks 56 year-old Margaret Johnson, as she leaves her Harlem apartment, in her motorized wheelchair. The assailant begins choking Johnson after she refused to let go off her purse. Johnson, who was on her way to an indoor shooting range, pulls out her registered—but illegally loaded—.357 handgun, and shoots her attacker in the elbow, who is subsequently arrested at a nearby hospital. The perpetrator had nine previous arrests, most of them for robbery.
NOTES:
- The police did not arrest Johnson, in spite of the fact that she had clearly violated the law.
- New York City ordinances require that registered handguns be carried unloaded, in a locked box, while in transport. This would have been absolutely useless to Johnson—who had no criminal record—in her own defense.
- The day before Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in the District of Columbia, speaking to the CONgressional Black Caucus, complaining about how the two status quo (Democratic and Republican) parties have “cowed” to the “gun extremists.”
[added 8/25/2024]
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Authority:
Article IX of Amendment
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-united-states/#aIXfa
References:
Robert A. Levy and William Mellor, The Dirty Dozen: How twelve Supreme Court cases radically expanded government and eroded freedom, (New York: Sentinel, 2008), 108, 271-72.
Bloomberg Criticizes as ‘Soft’ Politicians Who Stand in Way of Gun Crackdown – September 8, 2006
www.nyssn.com/new-york/bloomberg-criticizes-as-soft-politicians-who/39360/
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