This infuriated the left to no end. They consider the right to bear arms one of the worst affronts to mankind, mainly because when you're authoritarian, anything that comes between you and control is offensive. 

This is the core reason why the left is constantly attempting to curb and hamper the right to bear arms. 

The trouble is that in a state where guns are so common, restricting them can lead to nasty outcomes for society by those who don't care all that much about gun laws. An armed society is a polite society, and when only the bad guys are armed, that society becomes a bed of chaos, death, and destruction. 

You know that. Hell, a 10-year-old can wrap his head around that concept, yet it's not something that useful idiots on the left have figured out. 

As Jeff Charles wrote on Monday, New York is experiencing something of a concealed carry application boom. Notice I said application, and not purchase: 

In 2022, the NYPD saw an increased number of new applications — 7,260 — but approved just 1,550, or 21%, even though applications filed in the second half of that year no longer had to meet the “proper cause” standard where applicants had to make an affirmative case for why they needed a license.

In the six months after the high court’s ruling in New York State Rifle vs. Bruen, from June 24, 2022 to Dec. 31, 2022, the NYPD saw a surge in new gun permit applications, from just over 2,000 in the same period a year earlier to nearly 5,000. So far, the department has approved 503 of those, or just above 10%, despite its guidelines and state law requiring applications to be decided upon within six months.

Regardless of the permits being issued, it ultimately won't matter. As Charles reported, the reason people are getting guns is because they “just don’t feel as safe as they used to, with the protests, riots, crime.”

The uptick isn't because of a cultural turn, because a Democrat president looked sideways at a gun, or because there was a great sale on firearms. It's because people believe that their lives may very well depend on having one. If someone believes there's a high chance that they could come to some kind of harm when they step outside of their door without a gun, gun laws start looking less and less important. 

In New York, this problem is only more pronounced because police are abandoning the NYPD in droves. As I wrote in November 2023, between the soft-on-crime policies and politicians that clearly don't have their back, officers of the NYPD aren't taking the chance of being the next Derek Chauvin or worse, a corpse: 

The number of cops quitting before they reach the 20 years required to receive their full pensions also skyrocketed from 509 in 2020 to 1,040 so far this year — an alarming 104% increase, the data show.

The years of departures and lack of replacements are now taking a toll, forcing the cops who remain on the job to work “inhumane amounts of forced overtime,” Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry said.

Ask yourself what the law matters in a city where too few police are there to enforce it and too many criminals are there to ignore it anyway. 

This is the environment Democrat politicians are creating and I don't just mean in New York. In many blue cities, you'll find this mentality of soft-on-crime, hard-on-guns that plunge a city or county into lawlessness. These places become warzones with the dead mounting into absurd numbers every year. 

This is gripping sand tightly. The more you do, the more it slips out. 

Gun laws work the same way. The more you bear down on people who would own and use them properly, the more criminals who have no regard gain power and influence in that city. Soon, your city becomes more than a little impolite. 

Gun laws are a plague.