From Thursday it will be forbidden to shoot with a firearm, even hidden, in the famous neighborhood of Times Square in Manhattan, as in many public places in the state and in New York City, authorities announced Wednesday.
This new law, passed and signed this summer by New York State led by Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul and megacity led by right-wing Democratic Party mayor Eric Adams, goes into effect on September 1. .
It is a reaction from New York and other democratic states such as California to the ‘scandalous’ ruling of the United States Supreme Court – with a conservative majority – which had sanctioned the constitutional right of Americans to leave home armed at the end of June.
“The Supreme Court decision was a gunshot that rang around the world,” martial Eric Adams, a former police captain who fought against violence, said at a gunshot press conference. backbone of his mandate.
“New York City will defend itself against this decision and, starting tomorrow, new requirements for the right to carry a firearm in sensitive places like Times Square will come into effect,” he said.
50 million visitors
City councilor unveiled a “Times Square: Gun Free Zone” sign that will hang by Thursday in and around this iconic plaza in the heart of Manhattan, where electronic billboards are giants lit day and night for 50 million. visitors who flock there every year.
The governor of the fourth state of the country (20 million inhabitants) added that these weapons, even ‘hidden’ in cases, bags or pockets, will be banned in the ‘bars, libraries, schools, public services and hospitals’ of the region.
Ms. Hochul said she “refuses to give up (her) government duty to protect New Yorkers from gun violence.”
These prohibitions do not apply to law enforcement.
The Washington Supreme Court, whose majority of judges are conservative, overturned the ‘restrictions’ on carrying arms under a 1913 New York State law on June 23, despite America facing a crime explosion. in major cities and a series of murders, including two in May, in Buffalo (10 African American deaths) and in a Texas school (21 dead, including 19 children).
/ ATS
