With street crime soaring, it’s insane to stop New Yorkers from buying mace
May 10, 2022
State law makes it illegal to ship pepper spray to a New York address, leaving residents defenseless
Rikki Schlott had it entirely right in Sunday’s Post: There’s no reason in the world for it to be so hard to buy pepper spray in this town.
Major crimes were up 34 percent last month; robberies, 41 percent; felony assaults, 21 percent. Not to mention the subway shovings, hate crimes and so on.
Yet it’s illegal to ship pepper spray to a New York address. And only a handful of stores sell mace, too. So New Yorkers — including 1.5 million single women and 1 million elderly — can’t secure a canister.
Schlott details how a goon followed her into a pharmacy near Union Square and threatened rape — but she escaped after blasting her keychain pepper spray (shipped to a Jersey address).
We defend New York’s gun laws, but stopping citizens from defending themselves with mace is just insane.
The Legislature’s in session for a few more weeks; that’s enough time to repeal this ludicrous law.
1 comment:
The "system" does not care if people in NYC can defend themselves. The whole idea is to keep them totally dependent on the government for everything. They WANT the population to be scared.
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