Gov. Cuomo says aide shot in head before parade still clinging to life, 'but it’s not good'; calls for 'national gun policy', The aide to Gov. Cuomo who was shot in the head Monday in Brooklyn is clinging to life "but it's not good," the governor said Tuesday in Puerto Rico.
"He's in, let's call it very critical condition, but it is not good," Cuomo, speaking on CNN, said of lawyer Carey Gabay, 43, who was shot before the West Indian Day Parade on Monday.
Police say Gabay was an innocent bystander when he was hit with a stray bullet during a shootout between gang members.
"It was just another act of pure randomness," Cuomo said. “Just the randomness of gun violence, having too many guns on the street and people having guns who shouldn't have guns."I've been to too many funerals. I've seen too many bodies. I've dealt with too many parents crying losing children. This brings it home for me in a personal way."
Cuomo reiterated his call a tougher national gun control law that would require background checks for any purchasing weapons.
He argued that even though New York enacted a stringent gun control law after the Newtown, Conn., elementary school massacre, weapons continue to flow into the state from outside New York.
"The only way to deal with this is a national gun policy," Cuomo said. "It does me no good if we have the right laws in place in New York but the guns come in from New Jersey or from Virginia or from Mississippi or any state down south."He said such a policy needs to respect the Second Amendment but aim to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill.
"People who are law abiding ... say, 'Don't bother me. Don't check me. Only check the criminal.' But you can't check the criminal unless you check everyone.
"And this nation has to have the political courage to step up, and the elected officials have to have the political courage to step up and say, 'This weekly ongoing tragedy of loss of life, of innocent victims, school children, young girls, young boys must stop.' "Cuomo, who has been feuding with Mayor de Blasio, also didn't dismiss former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly's recent comments that the ending of the stop and frisk policy has created policing problems.
"I have a tremendous respect for Ray Kelly, the former police commissioner," Cuomo said. "I think he raises a different topic, which is policing tactics in New York, which may be a bonafide conversation. But that does not change the facts that we need a national gun policy in this country. One state can't do it alone and our state has demonstrated that."
"He's in, let's call it very critical condition, but it is not good," Cuomo, speaking on CNN, said of lawyer Carey Gabay, 43, who was shot before the West Indian Day Parade on Monday.
Police say Gabay was an innocent bystander when he was hit with a stray bullet during a shootout between gang members.
"It was just another act of pure randomness," Cuomo said. “Just the randomness of gun violence, having too many guns on the street and people having guns who shouldn't have guns."I've been to too many funerals. I've seen too many bodies. I've dealt with too many parents crying losing children. This brings it home for me in a personal way."
Cuomo reiterated his call a tougher national gun control law that would require background checks for any purchasing weapons.
He argued that even though New York enacted a stringent gun control law after the Newtown, Conn., elementary school massacre, weapons continue to flow into the state from outside New York.
"The only way to deal with this is a national gun policy," Cuomo said. "It does me no good if we have the right laws in place in New York but the guns come in from New Jersey or from Virginia or from Mississippi or any state down south."He said such a policy needs to respect the Second Amendment but aim to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill.
"People who are law abiding ... say, 'Don't bother me. Don't check me. Only check the criminal.' But you can't check the criminal unless you check everyone.
"And this nation has to have the political courage to step up, and the elected officials have to have the political courage to step up and say, 'This weekly ongoing tragedy of loss of life, of innocent victims, school children, young girls, young boys must stop.' "Cuomo, who has been feuding with Mayor de Blasio, also didn't dismiss former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly's recent comments that the ending of the stop and frisk policy has created policing problems.
"I have a tremendous respect for Ray Kelly, the former police commissioner," Cuomo said. "I think he raises a different topic, which is policing tactics in New York, which may be a bonafide conversation. But that does not change the facts that we need a national gun policy in this country. One state can't do it alone and our state has demonstrated that."
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