SAFE Act Part II: The Aftermath -of sorts.

So here we are, just short of a year later, and the SAFE act is still in place.  With all of the rumblings, and all of the threatened legal actions, nothing has come to pass.  I understand that legal actions, to include Constitutional issues must be addressed before proceeding recklessly, and thus, securing the act into a fixture of New Yorker's daily lives; but we are overlooking an important issue:  the lives of those that are being affected now because of this infringement of our civil rights.  Arrests on charges that seemed ridiculous a year ago are now branding once law-abiding citizens as felons.  My friend from the Emerald Isles may view this right of ours as a throwback to the founding of our country, but let me assure him that it is because of this right/belief that we have sustained our individual freedoms for as long as we have.  During WW II, a Japanese General stated that an invasion of the United States (paraphrasing) would be a catastrophe due to the fact that a rifle would be found behind every blade of grass.

There is also the events of 9/11.  Had the ability of carrying personal weapons on military posts not been stripped away by Clinton, the Ft. Hood massacre could have been lessened, and possibly prevented.  It was the illegal actions of the gunman that created the incident.  All of the victims obeyed the law.  That's just it:  law abiding citizens obey the law, but yet they are the ones punished by law authorities because of those won't obey the laws.

Something was pointed out to me a few years ago.  Today's generation, and those in the future will never know the freedoms enjoyed by those who experienced them.  They will grow up in the culture and never know what it was like to have that right, or what it was like to not be dependent on a government entity.  Please explain to me why the government must be so invasive

This posting may have veered off a little bit, but the ram-rodded law had to be put into a little context (at least for myself anyways).

Andrew Cuomo didn't realize the backlash of the issue when he forced the law through (30 hours?  Really?  What happened to the minimum 72 I thought was required by our state constitution?).  That being said, what cannot be covered at the State level, the Federal government is taking its cues and trying to make up for...and we all know how well the Federal government handles weapons:  Fast and Furious.