A Republican-led hearing on violent crime in New York City barely mentioned guns at all. What gives?
Back when Jim Jordan was a collegiate wrestling champion, the strategy would have been called a double misdirection duck under.
To mask the actual crime numbers, Jordan applied a second misdirection, inviting the families of two murder victims, the father of a hate crime, and a Manhattan bodega clerk who was charged with homicide after killing a robber but later deemed to have acted in self-defense. “You’re a disgrace to this county and I will do everything I can to hold you accountable,” said Nehls, a former police officer fired for allegedly destroying evidence.
A particularly pointed critique of Jordan’s approach was later voiced by Mark House, the principal of Bronx Engineering and Technology Academy. He is aso both a gun owner and a member of Brady’s Regional New York Leadership Council for gun reform, which is why he spoke, along with New York Mayor Eric Adams, on a second-floor balcony at the federal building just before the hearing.
“What makes violence in our city, their cities, their state, so violent?” House asked. “Simple. Guns.”
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