A great way to make policy

[George K]

Data?
Numbers?
Who needs 'em?

[Mik]

What is with NY that they keep electing these deeply flawed characters?

[Catseye3]

I agree the governor's response is mushy and evasive, but I don't really see the point of the question. Why is that important? Or relevant, even?

[Jolly]

@Catseye3 said in A great way to make policy:

I agree the governor's response is mushy and evasive, but I don't really see the point of the question. Why is that important? Or relevant, even?

Has to do with the recent SCOTUS ruling on shall issue.

[Catseye3]

@Jolly said in A great way to make policy:

Has to do with the recent SCOTUS ruling on shall issue.

And the badguy on the street cares about this how?

[Mik]

He doesn't. And he doesn't have a concealed carry permit either. That's the point - it isn't legal gun owners running around murdering and robbing.

[Catseye3]

@Mik We already know this. How is belaboring the obvious going to further a solution?

[Mik]

Because it forces the pol in question to reveal the depth of her fecklessness. "Facts be damned, my tribe supports this".

[Catseye3]

@Mik Fine. Business as usual. "Your tribe is wrong and mine is right," and the badguys go their merry way.

Bah!

[Mik]

You cannot reduce crime by disarming the law abiding. She herself says she doesn't need any data on that to make a decision.

[Catseye3]

@Mik TOTALLY agree. Harry Brown used to say that if you take away guns from law-abiding people then only the unlawful will have guns.

My point was to how pols indulge in their endless palavering during quote-unquote legislative proceedings about stuff that should be wrangled off site, if you will.

But I get your point, that the questioner was trying to force the governor to concede a point. Which, yeah, good luck with that.