NYC Will Imprison Senior Citizen for Defending Himself Against a Mugger

Another Daniel Penny.

A Queens senior citizen who shot dead a man who tried to rob him will spend four years in prison after admitting to toting an unlicensed revolver -- as his lawyer ripped the city's "draconian" gun laws.

Charles Foehner, 67, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal weapons possession Thursday in a deal to end his case more than two years after he fatally shot would-be thief Cody Gonzalez, who charged at him near his Kew Gardens home.

The Queens District Attorney's Office chose not to prosecute Foehner, a retired doorman, for Gonzalez's killing after he told cops that he'd defended himself from a mugger who lunged at him late at night holding what looked like a knife -- but which turned out to be a pen.

But prosecutors slapped Foehner with a slew of weapons raps for the unlicensed handgun and for an arsenal of illicit handguns, revolvers and rifles inside his home in the quiet neighborhood.

Foehner took the plea deal to avoid a trial, where he faced 25 years in prison on gun charges that are not hard to prove, said his attorney Thomas Kenniff after Thursday's hearing in Queens Supreme Court.

Kenniff called Foehner a "hero" who was put in an "impossible position" by what he called "draconian" Big Apple gun laws that make it difficult for "law abiding citizens" to obtain permits to carry firearms.

"If this was a state and a city that had its affairs in order, Mr Foehner would be getting a plaque, not a prison sentence," Kenniff told reporters on the courthouse steps.

A term that's enjoying new popularity -- because it describes the hell that the left is imposing on us -- is "anarchotyranny."

The idea is that we live in a tyranny filled with lawlessness (anarchy). Those seem to be opposites, which would make anarchotyranny a contradiction in terms, but you have to remember that only some get tyranny while others get anarchy.

If you're a rapist, a mugger, a killer, a drug-dealer, an illegal alien, you get anarchy, with the government staying out of your business and letting you harm your fellow citizens and ply your criminal trade with little government interference.

But if you're among the working population with a family and a mortgage and commitments you just can't walk away from, you get the tyranny, the endless laws, the endless demands for you to get a permit to do every single thing that free men used to do freely, and strict and brutal punishment from the state when you ignore a law here and there. Don't you know that only the hardcore criminals get to ignore the laws with impunity?

Adam Carolla has been ranting about this for years, although I don't think he used the word "anarchotyranny." (If you know where these clips are, let me know.)

He points out that you will be permitted to death if you dare try to add an extension to your house, and it will cost you $50,000 just to get that permit.

Meanwhile, illegal aliens can set up shantytown food carts on the street with no inspections and no authorization to block the sidewalks, and the cops will just walk on by.

If you want to expand your business, the state wants to stop you.

But if homeless people want to block traffic selling flowers car to car, that's fine. No problem.

The left wants to control people, and so they focus on the group of people who actually will obey all (or most) of the laws they pass: the naturally, inherently law-abiding. The people who can't afford to spend six months or a year in jail.

Meanwhile, for the criminal class: complete freedom to do whatever they want to do.

In the UK, they outlawed guns ages ago, and then outlawed swords and machetes and common knives.

For the law-abiding people, at least.

For the privileged classes: Anarchy.

Story here.

And an "influencer" in the US wants that hellscape for us:

posted by Ace at 01:18 PM

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