New York City recently started declaring “gun-free zones,” notably Times Square. Other cities have also made similar moves, including Philadelphia. Some cities have even urged homeowners that don’t have guns to illuminate their front porches with sure-color light bulbs, ostensibly to deter criminals looking for firearms. This all sounds stupid. One common thread all criminals have is they DON’T follow the law. That’s why they are criminals! So, why not let the crooks know that everyone is unarmed? Brilliant! Well, it appears that the signs in Time Square might be working! That is if you consider slashings and assaults with bottles “working.”
A Maryland tourist was smashed in the head with a bottle, slashed across the face, and robbed in Times Square over the weekend — the latest Big Apple attack on an unsuspecting out-of-towner.
The 30-year-old victim was outside the CVS at 1440 Broadway in Manhattan around 4:30 a.m. Saturday when two men and a woman approached him.
Tourist slashed, robbed in Times Square in latest out-of-towner assault https://t.co/vZZUwRwNQA via @nypmetro
— Rob Mattox (@RobMattox2) October 3, 2022
I am not blaming the victim, but perhaps don’t be out at 4:30 a.m. New York City might be called the city that never sleeps, but it is the city that will hit you with a bottle and rob you at 4:30 a.m. outside a CVS.
Sources said that the trio tried to get the victim to buy drugs, then the woman propositioned him for sex.
When the tourist refused both offers, the sources said that one of the suspects hit him in the head with a bottle and slashed him across the face with a sharp object before running off with $140.
You can’t blame the victim for politely declining both offers. Buying drugs is illegal, and being from out of town, how would he have even known where to buy pills? And the proposition for sex was probably a trap. Any time that has happened to me, it has been. Kidding! Times Square sounds like a fun place to hang out without a gun!
Then there was this story too:
Earlier last month, a 30-year-old tourist from Belgium was slashed in the face in an unprovoked attack at a Chelsea subway station in Manhattan, police said.
And Sept. 1, a 21-year-old Big Apple visitor from St. Louis was attacked and raped at a Times Square subway station around 3 a.m., police said.
It sounds like New York City should be a mandatory gun zone. Who wants to walk around a city where at any given moment, you could be slashed, beaten, raped, mugged, or run into one of the women from The View? Terrifying.
Sadly, people can’t visit these large tourist cities without fear of personal injury. Tourists come from all over the world to experience the Big Apple; all they get is the worm. Eric Adams is a former police officer, yet he is so weak on crime it’s shocking. Amazing that flashing signs declaring gun-free zones haven’t worked. Maybe Adams can write a strongly worded letter to would-be crooks. Maybe that will help. Until then, I’ll take my tourist dollars somewhere I won’t get slashed for them.