The New York gun-control law that the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional was instituted more than a century ago after a violinist shot dead a novelist outside the former residence of an architect who had himself been shot dead some years before
on Thursday was instituted more than a century ago after a crazed concert violinist turned failed poet shot dead a rising literary star outside the former residence of an eminent architect who had himself been shot dead some years before.
But the homicidal violinist who killed Phillips seemed to have really been insane. Goldsborough allegedly stalked Phillips without ever meeting him. The killer was said by police to have come to falsely imagine that his family had been portrayed in one of Phillips’ novels.
LeBrun would later write that he “consulted” with someone who had the power to make such a law a reality. Timothy “Big Tim” Sullivan, was a Manhattan state senator, district leader, and, as described in the memoir, “one of the ‘power bosses’ of Tammany Hall,” the reigning Democratic political machine. LeBrun found Sullivan to be “surprisingly enthusiastic” about the need for greater gun control.”
Sullivan suggested that the thing to do was make carrying a concealed weapon a felony. LeBrun pointed out that this would not stop criminals and the mentally unbalanced from buying firearms.Timothy "Big Tim" SullivanLeBrun did as bid and sought a preliminary reaction from a committee of prominent citizens he had quickly formed, The League for the Preservation of Human Life.
“Last Saturday night, there was a couple of gangs fighting in the street,” Sullivan began. “A mother with a baby in her arms came along and was shot dead. That alone ought to pass this bill.” “But the arms manufacturers now were thoroughly alarmed and began active campaigns wherever such bills were introduced,” LeBrun wrote.
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