{"id":1846198,"date":"2023-02-14T09:20:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1846198"},"modified":"2023-02-14T09:23:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:23:15","slug":"ny-times-has-brief-moment-of-clarity-following-shooting-in-times-square-gun-free-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-times-has-brief-moment-of-clarity-following-shooting-in-times-square-gun-free-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Has Brief Moment of Clarity Following Shooting in Times Square Gun Free Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-times-has-brief-moment-of-clarity-following-shooting-in-times-square-gun-free-zone%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1846198&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/d0eec13f-a697-4c58-8f1a-25e710e4bdb2-1052x615-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>We\u2019ve all seen signs announcing a particular place is a \u201cgun-free zone.\u201d While these signs are supposed to reduce gun violence by informing would-be shooters that their firearms aren\u2019t welcome on the site, the reality is that they are instead beacons alerting criminals to soft targets.<\/p>\n<p>It looks just like it <em>New York Times<\/em> This may be the moment that they have figured it out. After a murder took place in Times Square on Thursday night, the paper openly questioned why posted signs banning guns from the area didn\u2019t stop the violence. \u201cThe shooting was the first since the creation of the expansive, signposted zone, the police said in a statement, and it immediately renewed questions about whether such a designation can truly protect the area,\u201d The so-called paper record <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/11\/nyregion\/times-square-shooting-gun-violence-ny.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople feel emboldened to carry guns on the street,\u201d Tom Harris, a former New York City Police Inspector and the president, of the Times Square Alliance told the <em>Times<\/em>. \u201cA gun-free zone is not going to stop a criminal from carrying a gun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit I\u2019m shocked that the <em>New York Times<\/em> This was acknowledged. While I\u2019d like to give them credit for that, the fact is the inefficacy of gun-free zones is something conservative media has been pointing out for years.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/rick-moran\/2022\/07\/20\/indianapolis-mall-shooting-hero-returned-fire-just-15-seconds-after-killer-began-shooting-n1614302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indianapolis Mall Hero Responds to Fire in 15 Seconds after Killer Was Shot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In fact, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the Pulse nightclub, Sandy Hook Elementary School, and Virginia Tech University were all targeted by mass shooters despite being gun-free zones \u2014 and that\u2019s barely scratching the surface.\u00a0According to <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2018\/06\/more-misleading-information-from-bloombergs-everytown-for-gun-safety-on-guns-analysis-of-recent-mass-shootings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A 2018 study<\/a> by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), a whopping\u00a097.8% of mass shootings over a 68-year period occurred in \u201cgun-free zones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, while it\u2019s great that the <em>New York Times<\/em> Finally, the realization that gun-free zones are ineffective has been reached decades ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all seen signs announcing a particular place is a \u201cgun-free zone.\u201d While these signs are supposed to reduce gun violence by informing would-be shooters that their firearms aren\u2019t welcome on the site, the reality is that they are instead beacons alerting criminals to soft targets. It looks just like it New York Times This &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1846201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[18337,7012,5616,4300,12771,4126,9104],"class_list":["post-1846198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-clarity","tag-gun","tag-moment","tag-shooting","tag-square","tag-times","tag-zone"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1846201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}