No phrase is hated more by the anti-gun cartel than “the way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” It challenges the narrative that guns in America are inherently bad and that the Second Amendment is obsolete. But the truth of that phrase was emphasized on July 18 in Greenwood, Indiana, when a passerby in a shopping mall shot and killed a mass shooter 15 seconds into a rampage that had already caused three deaths.
The hero was legally carrying a concealed handgun. As he engaged the shooter, Elisjsha Dicken, the “Good Samaritan,” waved bystanders away from the scene. Local police credit Dicken with saving the lives of countless other victims. Days before, Indiana made actions like those of Mr. Dicken legal. Simultaneously, New York made it certain that such an intervention will either never happen or, if it does, be deemed illegal in that state.
The new high priestess of the gun control cult is New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who recently signed legislation that will make carrying a concealed weapon by a potential Good Samaritan — even if the owner has a permit — illegal in virtually every venue where a mass shooting has occurred in the last few decades. These venues include schools, public transportation, public gatherings like parades, and places where alcohol is sold, such as the Tops supermarket in Buffalo, the site of the most recent mass shooting in New York.
