Push for gun regulations brings NY’s fractured Democrats together

Todd Kaminsky

Originally published in Newsday

In an election year, with the Senate majority in play, gun control is an issue on which the Democrats can likely make hay and work together. It’s an issue on which even the state’s Republican voters sometimes disagree with conservatives in the rest of the country, a point Sen. Todd Kaminsky stressed at the news conference. He pointed out what none of these bills are asking for: arming schoolteachers in the Empire State.