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#Bullshit
The New York State Senate on Friday passed new gun legislation that includes requiring gun-permit applicants to submit information about their social media accounts and provide references about their character.
The state senate voted during a special session in response to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allows New Yorkers to apply for concealed-carry permits.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, who has spoken out against the Supreme Court ruling, signed the bill that places restrictions on locations where these permits are excepted. Individuals cannot carry guns in government buildings or inside schools.
“I refuse to surrender my right as governor to protect New Yorkers from gun violence,” Hochul said, according to The Albany Times-Union.
Hochul addressed reporters after the vote and said the social media background checks were inspired by recent shootings. She pointed to posts from the Buffalo shooter who killed 10 black people at a supermarket in the city on 14 May.
The shooter faces hate crimes because he used the internet to post about his plans. He also had a history of voicing concerns about black people “replacing white people and eliminating the white race, and to inspire others to commit similar racially-motivated attacks,” the complaint read, according to NPR.
“What we are doing here is adapting our ability to protect citizens of the state based on changing circumstances,” Hochul said, according to The Times-Union. “They sometimes are telegraphing their intent to cause harm to others, and we saw that in Buffalo. The evidence was there, the trail was there. Shame on us as a state if we don’t learn from those experiences.”
Some politicians in the U.S. in favor of less-restrictive gun laws seized on the mass shooting in Denmark during the weekend that resulted in three fatalities. These politicians said the shooting is evidence that tough gun laws cannot prevent these incidents.
Guns Banned, People Killed
“Shooting in Copenhagen Denmark where guns are BANNED,” Lavern Spicer, a Florida GOP congressional candidate, tweeted. “Oooooh child I can’t wait for the Left to explain how that happened!”
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., an outspoken gun-rights advocate, posted, “There was just a mass shooting in Denmark, a country with some of the strictest gun laws in Europe. It’s time to admit that gun laws DO NOT stop mass shootings!”
State Sen. Andrew J. Lanza, R-Staten Island, told the paper that Hochul has taken it upon herself to tell New Yorkers that the “constitution does not apply to you, that you’re not worthy of being able to protect your life.”
“Normal people right now are trying to figure out how they’re going to buy food for their Fourth of July barbecue on Monday because it’s either too expensive or not on the shelves,” Lanza said. “This is a disgrace. See you in the courts. … This is just another attempt to say to the people of the state of New York, ‘we don’t trust you.'”
Hochul said any “business, grocery store, retail, private home, place that wants to allow guns on their premises will have to demonstrate that and establish that they put a sign out there that says concealed carry guns are welcome here.”
TRENDPOST: Hochul’s decision to sign a bill that allows the government to look at three years of social media posts is not surprising. Social media users already understand that potential employers, dates, and clubs all look into previous posts to get a sense of an individual.
The Second Amendment advocates will fight the latest government intrusion and bash Hochul, who was never elected to begin with, for overstepping her boundaries.
The big question is what “government official” gets to decide what social media posts are deemed acceptable and which ones are not. Presumably, someone who posted positively about the 6 January riot at the Capitol would be barred, while Hunter Biden, who was reportedly seen waving an “illegally obtained .38” while fooling around with a prostitute would be fine.
TRENDPOST: Indeed, as we reported, it’s a freak show, and the freaks are in control. Need proof?
Listen to U.S. President Joe Biden—a man with a track record of decades of backing murderous wars of death and destruction that have killed millions and cost trillions—demanding that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” … should be “infringed.”
“How much more carnage are we willing to take,” said warmonger Biden last week, declaring that “We the People” should have limited gun rights… but not for his son Hunter, The Crack Cocaine Kid.
Radar Online posted a photo of Joe Biden’s son Hunter waving around a handgun while naked with a hooker. The report said Biden’s son was taping a “sickening and dangerous sexual game of role-playing on Oct. 17, 2018.” See “GUN CONTROL? NAKED BIDEN BOY WAVES GUN WITH HOOKER.”)
The video’s emergence should be embarrassing for the President because he is campaigning for tougher gun laws in the U.S. due to the recent mass shootings. Biden appealed to Congress to quickly pass new legislation to ban assault weapons. He also called on expanded background checks, and new gun control measures.
The New York Post reported that the image of Hunter Biden was verified as authentic by Radar. The son bought a .38-caliber revolver in Delaware five days before recording the sex tape, the report said.
The paper said, “Two separate photos showed Hunter’s hand on the trigger of the gun as he cupped his genital area, while a third image showed what appeared to be crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia on paper plates, including a spoon.”
The Trends Journal has reported on Hunter Biden’s laptop and how laws that apply to us little people do not apply to politicians and their families.
The Post said that Hallie Biden, the widow of Hunter’s late brother Beau Biden, “tossed the gun into a supermarket garbage can, setting off a Secret Service and FBI probe, Radar Online reported. No charges were ever filed.”
TREND FORECAST: The Trends Journal had issued extensive forecast on the negative impact COVID-19 lockdowns would have on society, especially the young.
The CDC report showed young people were the most impacted by the increase in gun violence. Those under 30 were 10 times more likely to die by a gun than in previous years.
Those 75 and older used guns to commit suicide at twice the national average. See “LOCKDOWN LUNACY CREATING ‘MENTAL HEALTH PANDEMIC,” “MENTALLY ILL POLITICIANS CREATING MENTAL ILLNESS” and “GUN VIOLENCE SURGES ACROSS U.S.”
As Gerald Celente, the publisher of The Trends Journal, warned that COVID-19 lockdowns would kill the human spirit and lead to a never-before-seen mental health breakdown in society.
The draconian lockdown orders destroyed the lives and livelihoods of scores of millions, especially the lower economic class. “When people lose everything and have nothing left to lose, they lose it,” Celente has said.
More Americans were killed by guns in 2020 than any other year on record, according to a report released last week.
Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions crunched the numbers provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and found gun violence surged while large swaths of the country were in lockdown during the COVID-19 outbreak.
The report said gun-related deaths increased by 15 percent to 45,222, which is the highest recorded since 1968. About 124 people died a day in the U.S. due to gun-related incidents.
Shooting homicides jumped 35 percent compared to 2019, or about 5,000 additional deaths.
Firearm homicides increased 35 percent in 2020, with nearly 5,000 more homicides compared to 2019, the report said. The number of firearm deaths increased to a record level in 2020, the rate—13.62 per 100,000 deaths—did not exceed the historic highs of the 1990s.
“Some of these data are stunning,” Cassandra Crifasi, associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins, said. She said the number of firearm homicides among black women jumped by nearly 50 percent.
Gun Time
The outbreak of the coronavirus in early 2020 was used by politicians to impose dictatorial, unprecedented, un-scientific draconian measures to “flatten the curve.”
But as we have extensively reported, the lockdown policies proved to be ineffective in stopping transmission and negatively impacted the psychological, physical, emotional, and financial well-being of millions of Americans, and citizens across the globe.
Americans also bought guns at an unprecedented rate. From March 2020 until June, the FBI ran 13,674,878 background checks for gun purchases, indicating a 42 percent jump in comparison to the same timeframe in 2019.
The newly released report provided an in-depth analysis of the 2020 CDC firearm fatality data, which was made public in December 2021, Johns Hopkins said.
Gun deaths among children and teenagers rose by 29.5 percent, more than twice that of the wider population. The Johns Hopkins report pointed out that young black men represent about 2 percent of the U.S. population, but account for about 38 percent of all gun homicide deaths in 2020. More than half of all Black teens who died in 2020 were killed by gun violence, the report said.
More than 390 million guns are owned by residents in the U.S. The report said that states with the most robust gun laws have lower gun-related death rates.
“We knew gun violence had increased but I was surprised by the level of increase for just one year,” Dr Jason Goldstick, a researcher with IFIP and associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Michigan, told The Guardian. “I can’t remember ever seeing that before.”
The BBC pointed out that drug overdoses and poisonings rose 83.6 percent from 2019 to 2020. The report said a separate study published in April found that 954 young people died of overdoses in 2020, compared to 492 in 2019.
TRENDPOST: As written about in the 4 October 2020 Trends Journal, The Great Barrington Declaration, signed by thousands of physicians and health professionals, called for the end of lockdowns, which are “producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.”
The Declaration was endorsed by over 12,000 international medical and public health scientists and over 34,000 medical practitioners. Despite the fact that so many in the health profession signed the Declaration, it is ignored by the mainstream media.
“For people who are under 60, the lockdown harms, mentally and physically, are worse than COVID. Lockdowns have absolutely catastrophic effects on physical and mental populations both domestically and internationally…. For children, the flu is worse. We’ve had more flu deaths of children this year than COVID deaths. For children, COVID is less of a risk than the lockdowns. Opening schools is absolutely vital,” Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of Medicine at Stanford and lead author of the declaration, wrote at the time.