Response of Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.)

“Hate has no place in the Hudson Valley. We must stand together against bigoted attacks - anti-Semitic, anti-LGBTQ, or any other form of cowardly intimidation and violence. Communities across New York are made stronger by diversity – period.” On background: The Congressman recently cosponsored new legislation to make it illegal for someone convicted of a misdemeanor hate crime to own a gun, and introduced a bill earlier this year strengthening the data collection system (the Center for Disease Control’s National Violent Death Reporting System) for violent deaths (including hate crime) against the LGBTQ community.