The shooter wasn't a tourist, and his gun was flat-out illegal: no permit to possess or carry. And yet he managed to use it to commit murder. The people who obey the restrictions are not the people who commit the murders. If you think that means the restrictions are working, you need to check your M&M patch to see if there are any elephants in it. (I'll give you a hint: they paint their toenails different colors.)


Explain to me how the cops are supposed to have known that. Then tell me how it would have been so much better to just let him walk away.


I don't think you understand the meaning of the word proof. Proof of your concept would require having had an armed citizen intervene with tragic results. Nothing like that happened. Your assertion is just more idle speculation.


Considering that the mayor appoints the police commissioner, in what sense are they "their own entity"? Oh, "unofficially" -- I see. Yes, Bloomie is not an omnipotent being who guides each officer's actions every minute of every shift. But he is most decidedly at the top of that particular administrative food chain.

So ... what are we left with? Not a lot, really.