“Gov. Cuomo spoke Monday about First Deputy Counsel to Empire State Development Carey Gabay, 43, who was shot in in Crown Heights about 3:40 a.m.. ” nydailynews.com reports. “‘We passed the toughest gun control law in the the nation, called the SAFE Act and I am proud of it. Anyone who doesn’t believe we need to do something about gun control is delusional. We can protect the Second Amendment and legitimate gun owners, but we also need to protect people. How many young innocent people need to die before this nation comes to its senses? And this is a terrible terrible painful loss, and all unnecessary.” As we reported earlier . . .

Gaby was shot during a shootout at the West Indian American Day Carnival Parade – that included a fatal stabbing. (Somehow that didn’t ping Cuomo’s political radar.) Furthermore, the Governor made his statement without any information about the source of the “crime gun” or detailed information on the shooter’s motives – not that Americans’ natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms is subject to arguments about social utility or the democratic process.

Here’s the rest of Cuomo’s plea for additional gun control, recommending new federal laws to curb “gun violence”: