Imagine waking up to a noise in your home in the middle of the night. You go to investigate, and find a stranger in the room of your infant son, rifling through some drawers. He lunges at you. What would you do? Would you defend your family with a firearm, or would you run and call the police and hope they get there in time?

Late last year, Charles Dixon was faced with that choice. Now the City of New York is throwing Dixon in jail for possession of a firearm. I had previously noted just how zealous New York was to prosecute the victim. Prosecutor Charles Hynes had even stated, "If you get caught with a gun in Brooklyn, you're going to do jail time." That is pretty much a true statement. While New York City does have a process for law abiding citizens to follow if they do want to legally own a gun, it is so arduous and costly, that people seldom bother. Even if you are willing to wait 6 months, sit through an interview, and can justify your "reason" for "needing" a gun, you still have to pony up $244, more than a month's worth of groceries, before the city grants you "permission" to own it.

Fellow gun nut, Kim DuToit once noted that getting a permit to own a firearm in New York City is so difficult, that the "law-abiding are scared away from getting a gun in the first place," which is "precisely the purpose of New York's gun laws." Just like the poll taxes that were set up to keep people from voting, the restrictive laws are purposely set up to be a barrier to the Second Amendment. They have been purposely constructed to prevent firearm's ownership by law abiding citizens. New York City has discretely repealed the Second Amendment, so that they do not attract too much attention.

Yesterday, World Net Daily featured this anonymous letter:

"By prosecuting Ronald Dixon on spurious charges, you are sending a very dangerous message to the residents in your jurisdiction: Defend your family, go to jail. You are also sending an equally dangerous message to the criminal element, who would realize that law-abiding citizens would now be hesitant to defend themselves for fear of criminal prosecution, and therefore make prime targets for violent crime."

How true. New York is sending a message to criminals that they will protect them. Thugs need not fear resistance when they invade someone's home. They have New York City prosecutors on their side.

link via RWN