By Dave Workman
Jack Schlossberg, grandson of assassinated President John F. Kennedy and would-be New York congressman, has suggested states with pro-Second Amendment gun laws should be penalized for crimes committed in New York with guns from other states.
The New York Post is reporting that Schlossberg, running to succeed retiring Congressman Jerrold Nadler (NY-12th District). In an effort to show his gun control credentials, he is proposing that states which do not conduct what he considers stronger background checks should be penalized. Guns from those states reportedly keep showing up at New York crime scenes.
However, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, thinks the penalty should be on New York for its soft-on-criminals legal system which keeps releasing repeat offenders, who keep committing crimes.
“We’re not saying anything about the Second Amendment,” Schlossberg claimed in remarks quoted by the New York Post.
But CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb sees it differently.
“Schlossberg is pandering to far-left Democrats with his gun control suggestion,” Gottlieb said in a statement to the media, “rather than acknowledge it is liberal Democrat policies which have allowed repeat offenders to roam the streets of New York, or other states, committing crimes and bringing misery to American citizens, many of whom have purchased firearms to protect themselves from recidivist criminals who should be doing time in Empire State jails and prisons.”
He said News York doesn’t have a “gun problem, it’s got a criminal justice problem.”
According to Schlossberg, funds deprived of states with so-called lax gun laws would be given to federal investigators under what he has dubbed the “Ricochet Rule.”
“There’s an illegal flow of guns into states across the country from a couple states with weaker gun laws,” the candidate told the Post. “We should at least have a penalty to make sure that we can fund enforcement of this common sense idea.”
“New York’s criminal justice system is a train wreck,” Gottlieb contended, “and everybody knows it. While prosecutors and courts go light on repeat offenders, politicians in Albany and New York City go hard on law-abiding citizens who want to exercise their Second Amendment rights. It’s time to hold the New York political establishment accountable for the trouble they cause, instead of penalizing states which recognize the rights of law-abiding citizens.”
JFK, Schlossberg’s grandfather, was a Life Member of the National Rifle Association. He was once famously photographed holding an original AR-15/M16 rifle. Gottlieb drew the distinction between the two men.
“President Kennedy, who was Schlossberg’s grandfather and an NRA member, is probably shaking his head and rolling his eyes in Heaven, “ Gottlieb observed.
