A motorist was shot dead in a drive-by on the George Washington Bridge Tuesday night, and the killer is still at large—another reminder that the nation's toughest gun laws stop law-abiding citizens, not determined shooters.
The George Washington Bridge spans New York and New Jersey, two states that compete for the title of most restrictive gun regime in America. Yet none of those regulations prevented a suspect from opening fire on the westbound upper level around 7 p.m., striking the driver in the head, according to the New York Post. The victim was rushed to Englewood Hospital in New Jersey and pronounced dead. The suspect fled the scene and remained on the loose as of late Tuesday.
Port Authority Police responded to reports of a crash and discovered the shooting, the Post reported. Nobody else was injured, but the westbound upper level of the bridge was shut down. Investigators are now poring over security camera footage for any lead on the suspect.
That's the familiar pattern: a criminal ignores every statute on the books, commits an act of violence, and vanishes while law enforcement scrambles to catch up after the fact. New York and New Jersey have enacted permit requirements, background checks, magazine limits, carry restrictions, and red-flag laws—and yet a shooter still managed to execute a drive-by on one of the most surveilled, heavily trafficked bridges in the country. The laws didn't stop the trigger pull; they only ensure that ordinary citizens navigating that same bridge are disarmed and unable to fight back.
The Port Authority has not released the victim's identity or a description of the suspect or vehicle. No arrests have been announced. The investigation is ongoing.
The question that New York and New Jersey lawmakers won't answer: if their gun-control architecture works as advertised, why do drive-by shootings still happen on their bridges?
