"In New York," former Gov. Andrew Cuomo bragged on Sunday, "we passed the best [gun control] laws in the nation." Although those laws manifestly did not prevent the mass shooting that killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket on May 14, Cuomo thinks the answer is more legislation of the same sort.
Cuomo mentioned a federal "assault weapon" ban, and other politicians responded to the Buffalo massacre by calling for expanded background checks and more aggressive enforcement of "red flag" laws that aim to disarm dangerous people. But those policies are fundamentally ill-suited to stopping crimes like the Buffalo shooting or Tuesday's deadly attack at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
