In London they ban private gun ownership so people stab each other, which prompted a knife ban, so people kill each other with sharpened potato peelers. NYC is also a de facto gun-free zone, so people come up with other means to end human life, like the lunatic who attacked 3 with a hammer, killing one and leaving the others in critical condition. Since this was a mass hammering involving an assault hammer that was designed for the construction site not the streets, can we expect mayor Bill de Blasio to ban tools in the city? You betcha.
On Tuesday 34-year-old construction worker Arthur Martunovich walked into the Seaport Buffet in Brooklyn and started hammering people.
The NY Post reports:
Hammer in hand,[Martunovich] allegedly burst into the Emmons Avenue eatery around 5:10 p.m. and bashed owner Kheong Ng-Thang over the head in the entryway, according to sources.
He then stormed into the kitchen, where he allegedly clocked manager Tsz Mat Pun and chef Fufai Pun — who are not related — before dashing out of the gore-soaked restaurant into the street, sources said.
Ng-Thang died and the two other victims were taken to the hospital where they remain in critical condition. Police officers quickly caught up with Martunovich and arrested him without incident.
The story gets even more bizarre when the hammer killer revealed his motivation for the mass hammering:
Back at the local station house, detectives quizzed the unhinged suspect for a motive behind the grisly, unprovoked attack — and got answers that only invited more questions.
At one point, Martunovich claimed he was acting out of chivalry by defending Chinese women, having recently seen an unspecified movie about their mistreatment by Chinese men, sources said.
A “rambling” Arthur Martunovich told detectives that after seeing the flick — the name of which wasn’t immediately known — he had no choice but to unleash terror inside the packed, Asian-owned Seaport Buffet early Tuesday evening, the sources said.
I bet the movie he watched was Kung-Fu Hustle. Remember when the bad guys punched that old lady who was always smoking? If that doesn’t start a hammer attack, I don’t know what does.
I hate to break it to Martunovich, but the people he attacked where not Chinese. Judging by their last names, the victims appear to be Vietnamese. Oh well, it’s the thought that counts.
Really, I would expect liberals to celebrate this lunatic for being a woman’s champion. While those scumbags on the left are busy harassing and and sexually assault women, this guy was taking direct action to protect them. He’s a hero. Then again, he may just be balls-out crazy:
Martunovich…also invoked the extraterrestrial in his meandering interrogation, sources said.
“He was saying psycho stuff about space aliens,” one high-ranking police source told The Post.
As long as he wasn’t saying anything bad about illegal aliens, that’s okay.
If this guy walked into a restaurant and shot 3 people in NYC, liberal politicians would be screaming for more gun control before the the blood even dried on the floor. How is a shooting more gruesome or tragic than a hammer attack? Clearly the liberals need to impose strict hammer control to prevent anything like this from happening again or they might look like raging hypocrites.
It turns out this guy was able to buy this hammer without passing any kind of background check and may have exploited the “hammer show” loophole to acquire it. This was also not just an normal hammer, but one of those high-capacity framing hammers designed to drive as many nails as possible. Obviously nobody needs a hammer like this to hang up pictures. Hopefully de Blasio enacts some commonsense hammer control to protect our children from the scourge of construction-style tools.
