In “Even New York’s Strict Gun Laws Couldn’t Prevent the Midtown Shooting” (New York Times, 29 July 2025), Brittney Blair speaks on how the shooting exposed the limitations of New York’s gun safety laws and private security precautions in preventing workplace violence. Brittney notes: “New York has one of the world’s most sophisticated surveillance networks and the resources to deploy a massive police response.” But despite those strict laws, “a piecemeal network of looser regulations nationwide enabled a lone gunman with no criminal history to drive undetected across several states on his way to the city.”
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