“I don’t want to lose any more people to Palm Beach,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said back in June. “We’ve lost enough.”

Hochul was talking taxes then, but the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who told pollsters last month they would “definitely” pack up and leave the city if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor have plenty of other reasons to go.

Just ask Charles Foehner, the 67-year-old retired Queens doorman who in May 2023 defended himself with lethal force from an assailant with 15 prior arrests and a history of mental illness.

Foehner survived the middle-of-the-night altercation thanks to his trusty revolver in what everyone accepts is a case of self-defense.

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz wasn’t through with Foehner, however.

Although she could not prosecute him for resisting his assailant, the mere fact that Foehner bore firearms in New York exposed him to criminal charges serious enough to land him in jail for up to 25 years.

Compare that draconian outcome with reality in my state, Florida, where firearms can be carried openly and without a permit and crime is at an all-time low.

Only a year........

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