New York DA bans gun ownership by… prosecutors

From Hot Air:

Will the last sane person to leave New York please remember to shut off the lights?

Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas has an interesting policy in place for the prosecutors working for her office. They’re not allowed to have handguns. I don’t mean they can’t bring them into court or into their office. They can’t own them and they can’t apply for a permit. It’s a condition of employment with the DA’s office.

Madeline Singas, Acting District Attorney for Nassau County, New York, is a hypocrite. Worse, she is willing to gamble with the lives and safety of her staff and their families for her own perceived political benefit. ...... she enforces a policy of mandatory disarmament amongst the attorneys who put their own safety on the line to administer justice in her jurisdiction. On Monday, Prof. Eugene Volokh broke the story that the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office bars prosecutors from having handguns, even at home.

The fact is that Ms. Singas isn’t the problem. She’s just a symptom of a much larger disease running through New York. She no doubt has her political career in mind and wants to score big points with the Democrat faithful so she can move on to bigger and better things. Let’s just pray that her selfishness doesn’t see her leaving a dead prosecutor in her wake. Small wonder that a recent Gallup poll showed that citizens increasingly view the government as a greater threat to their safety than the criminals.

Stunning!