If New York lawmakers get their way, these eight guns would still be on the streets.
They are just some of the weapons confiscated by the NYPD this year during “quality of life” arrests of the type the City Council wants to decriminalize.
For instance, Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito says fare evasion on the subway should only result in a ticket — meaning officers have less freedom to ask for ID or search a suspect.
Yet four of these guns were discovered because police stopped a turnstile jumper.
To those progressive lawmakers who believe rousting people lying down and sleeping on subway seats is harassment, note that three of these guns were found because of cops stopping the guy who was hogging a row on the A train.
And to Assemblyman Dan Quart (D-Manhattan), who wants to change the law prohibiting gravity knives to say knives should only be illegal if you have “criminal intent,” consider David Seto. Police noticed his knife and stopped him — only to discover he was also carrying a Glock with two full magazines of 28 hollow-point bullets.
Broken-windows policing, pioneered by Commissioner Bill Bratton, brought crime rates down to almost unimaginable levels, and now politicians inexplicably want to defang it.
How many guns would stay on the streets if the City Council gets their way? How many more New Yorkers would be dead?











