Politicians Call for Machete Control After New York City Machete Attack By Daniel Greenfield
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/politicians-call-for-machete-control-after-new-york-city-machete-attack/print/
Back when we were still sensible about crime, before even Republicans started spouting nonsense about banning the death penalty, legalizing drug dealing and freeing all the criminals, Frederick Young would have been considered scum that should have been locked away with the key thrown away. He’s the walking case for three strikes laws.
These days though the narrative is dominated by professional social justice warriors screeching about the prison pipeline and the City Council speaker wants the taxpayers to put up bail for indigent criminals.
And so this is just another blip on the big radar screen of the city as it descends back to the terrible 70s. For all the millenials who weren’t around then. Here’s what it was like. Try not to get macheted [2]. If you do, check your privilege.
Sook Yeong Im, who is visiting from South Korea, had just finished a yoga class on the lawn and was looking for a place to sit around 11:30 a.m. when career criminal Frederick Young, 43, followed her with the blade in a plastic bag.
Young — who has at least two dozen prior arrests, including a 2010 machete attack — hacked at the victim’s arm several times as she screamed.
“He was trying to hurt her more but because she was yelling, other people came, and he couldn’t,” said Dajung.
Parkgoers rushed to her aid, including one person who used a belt as a tourniquet.
“She is so freaked out because she was bleeding a lot,” Dajung said. “I could see the muscles in her arm.”
Who could have predicted that a guy who had committed a machete attack would commit a machete attack?
If only we had some sort of system for locking psychos away who commit machete attacks so they don’t do it again.
“She can’t move her fingers now, but the doctors say she will be OK,” Dajung said. “They are really freaked out. This doesn’t happen in South Korea.”
For a while it stopped happening in New York City. Then working class voters were displaced by welfare voters and millenial voters into social justice. And now the machetes are out.
“She’s very unstable, very scared,” said Saya Da Jung, a Brooklyn art instructor who was teaching a drawing class in the park when the violence unfolded, and accompanied Im to the hospital. “She’s very unsure of every American she sees. She’s just trying to get home as soon as she can.”
It’s not that Americans are violent, but they have been letting the Obamas and De Blasios enable psychos like Young.
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But don’t worry, there’s a solution. We just need to ban machetes [4].
Lawmakers on Wednesday demanded tougher regulations to prevent a repeat of the wild machete attack in Bryant Park.
“It is disturbing,” said state Sen. Tony Avella, a day after a foreign tourist was slashed with an easy-to-get and hard-to-ban machete. “They are deadly weapons,” he said.
Smaller knives such as switchblades and gravity knives are already banned. But machetes are considered tools, the same as butcher’s knives.
Avella, of Queens, introduced a bill in February increasing penalties for crimes committed with machetes. It sailed through the Senate but got stalled in the Assembly.
Part of the problem, Avella said, is that machetes serve a functional role as an agricultural tool to chop brush or split coconuts.
Switchblades are easy to buy despite being banned. The city has already tried making box cutters available only with an ID. Somehow criminals still manage to get their hands not only on guns, but on every sort of sharp blade.
The answer is one of those common sense solutions like a national ban on assault machetes. (Assault machetes are any machete with a painted handle and curved grip.) And then a national ban on box cutters and chef’s knives.
Or, and this is a bizarre politically incorrect idea that actually worked brilliantly, we can start locking up violent offenders and drug dealers and throwing away the key. I know it’s really mean, but when you’re sitting for your little yoga lesson in Bryant Park, which used to be called Needle Park in the Democrat days, it really helps avoid getting macheted.
Or you can let it go back to the open air drug den and whorehouse it used to be.
And then it will be full of guys who will look like Young and mutter to themselves while carrying sharp objects around. Then the yoga lessons will be done for good.
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