Say, here's a suggestion: why not enforce the gun control laws already on the books, but this time change the focus to criminals?
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NYC’s mandatory gun safety classes, required for a pistol permit, should have taught this gentleman that pointing a gun at another person is an unsafe practice.
Man shot in Queens is a gang member with a lengthy rap sheet, police say
The man who was wounded alongside his 8-year-old son in a Queens drive-by shooting is a gang member with nearly two dozen arrests — and he’s been shot at twice before, cops said.
The 39-year-old dad, Tyshawn Moses, has been collared 23 times and has a known affiliation to the Nine Trey Gangsters and the Real Ryte gang, according to police sources.
Many of the busts were for weapons possession, the sources said.
The dad — who was shot in May 2005 and August 2013 — is also considered a suspect in a March 2021 reckless endangerment incident, police and sources said.
Moses told police he was crossing the street with his 8-year-old son around 9:45 p.m. Wednesday in St. Albans when someone opened fire from a dark sedan, possibly an Infiniti, police sources said.
Moses’ most recent bust was in May 2020, when police found him and at least one other suspect double-parked on Alabama Avenue near Sutter Avenue in Brownsville, police sources said.
When cops stopped them, the driver fled, almost striking an officer, the sources said.
They were found in possession of a stolen Taurus .40-caliber firearm, a Colt .38 revolver, and marijuana, according to the sources.
The child was hit in the shoulder, police said. Moses — believed to have been the intended target — was shot in the leg, arm and thigh.
“It also looks like he might have returned fire, we’re also investigating that,” said NYPD
[But, but, that would mean he was carrying a gun himself! That’s ILLEGAL!]
The man who was wounded alongside his 8-year-old son in a Queens drive-by shooting is a gang member with nearly two dozen arrests — and he’s been shot at twice before, cops said.
The 39-year-old dad, Tyshawn Moses, has been collared 23 times and has a known affiliation to the Nine Trey Gangsters and the Real Ryte gang, according to police sources.
Many of the busts were for weapons possession, the sources said.
The dad — who was shot in May 2005 and August 2013 — is also considered a suspect in a March 2021 reckless endangerment incident, police and sources said.
New York City has some of the toughest gun laws in the country (Chicago is up there, too), and the federal law on background checks should in theory prevent felons, wife beaters, chronic alcoholics and drugsters from getting their hands on a weapon. Yet none of these laws are enforced (the feds prosecuted 17 individuals in 2018 for filing false background applications — 17 in the entire country). While Tshawn is to be commended for even recognizing and acknowledging his son, let alone bringing him along for a midnight run through the combat zone, the fact is he should have been in jail Wednesday night, and not on the streets, with or without his child. That’s what the city’s laws say, anyhow.
