If good men go unarmed...

Colin Moynihan has an article in The New York Times about local criminality:

A passenger in a livery cab was shot in the head early Saturday, when a man held up the driver after the cab stopped at a traffic light in Brooklyn, according to the police. The shooting occurred about 2:30 a.m. at Utica Avenue and Avenue M, in the Flatlands neighborhood.
The robber approached the driver’s side window on foot, demanded money, and reached into the car, the police said. The driver did not hand over any money, the police said, and might have tried to fend him off. The robber then stepped back, drew a pistol, and “fired into the car”, the police said.
A 23-year-old man sitting in the back seat was struck in the head, the police said. He was taken to Kings County Hospital Center, where he was reported to be in critical condition. His name was not immediately released. A woman sitting beside him in the cab was unharmed, the police said.
Detectives took a man into custody at the 63rd Precinct station house on Brooklyn Avenue, but he was later taken to Kings County after complaining of a stomach ailment, the police said.
About ninety minutes before the taxi shooting, four people were wounded in another shooting at a family gathering about seven blocks away, also in Flatlands, the police said. That episode took place in front of a red brick house on East 54th Street.
As the group huddled under an awning to stay out of the rain, the police said, a man appeared on the sidewalk and opened fire. Two men and a woman were treated at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center and released, the police said, but a woman who was shot in the stomach was still being treated at the hospital as of Saturday afternoon.
While the police said they did not believe the two shootings were related, investigators were looking into any connection.

Rico says that, as New York City is getting to be like the Old West (though there were fewer shootings in Dodge City , even per capita, than in New York), people should be allowed to carry on the street to even the odds. (Which is why, of course, there were fewer in Dodge...)