NYers’ Appeal to Pols: Put a Stop to Gun Violence
● The quest to identify those who have been charged with possession of guns and released with no bail, only to be rearrested again for a shooting, is missing a point (“Asking for More Gun Crime,” Editorial, Dec. 9).
Violent individuals usually do not live in a vacuum. Others in their circle of friends who see the “no consequence” climate of the criminal-justice system are not deterred from carrying guns. The cycle continues, and the violence rises.
The proliferation of violence in the immediate area where the individual is released is evidence of the folly of “no bail.”
Ed Young
The Bronx
● The NYPD boss said gun violence is the worst it’s been in 14 years. This city is like a combat zone with bullets flying all over the place. Recently a stray bullet hit a 76-yearold man while he was sleeping inside.
How can this happen? It’s getting to be extremely scary now. Is any place safe anymore? The gun violence and gunplay has just about doubled in the city since last year.
What are Police Commissioner Dermot Shea and our “out of touch” Mayor de Blasio doing about it?
I am a Vietnam veteran, and I’ve seen enough combat. I do not want to go through what I did back then.
Shea and de Blasio, stop talking and do something about it and save our city from this violence now.
Rob Johann
Queens
● The Post posed the question “When will politicians finally care about gun violence and do something?”
I believe the real question is when will the voters start to care about their own safety and elect politicians who will enact laws that keep hoodlums separated from the law-abiding.
If the electorate would like to live in relative safety, they would have to stop electing the same old faces, the same old names and the same old political party.
John Dumary
Duanesburg
● Shocking, isn’t it, that Tweedledee and Tweedledum — de Blasio and Shea — are ho-hum on the rise in gun violence?
The courts should stop the no-bail release of the threats who continue to wreak havoc on all communities.
Anyone who thinks the numbers given to us on gun-violence victims are true, I have a bridge for sale. Sadly, all New Yorkers are held hostage by the bumbling buffoons in charge.
Kevin Judge
Naples, Fla.