A 20-year-old man was shot in the head outside Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s Gun Hill Road district office Monday — an event remarkable only insofar as it happened within pistol range of the powerful Bronx Democrat’s digs.

At virtually the same time, also in The Bronx, a 45-year-old thug with a long arrest record blindsided an unsuspecting cop without provocation or warning — smashing a bottle into the back of her head and sending her to St. Barnabas Hospital.

The Bronx aside, these two events have this in common:

Here’s what he had to say about the Gun Hill Road shooting: “We must stop focusing on the symptoms of crime and treat the disease” — which the speaker defined as “gun violence.”

By that reasoning, the cop assault represented “bottle violence” — and both that attacker and the Gun Hill shooter merely are “symptoms” in need of “treatment.”

Instead of what they actually are — violent criminals in immediate need of separation from society.

There’s no reason to believe Heastie would have had anything at all to say about the Gun Hill Road shooting had his office not been in the line of fire.

But it was, so out popped the weasel words.

The fact is that the speaker is both an architect of the lethal 2019 penal-law “reforms” that helped precipitate New York’s current criminal-justice crisis — and a principal impediment to common-sense efforts to claw back safer streets.

Word out of Albany is that a “compromise” is pending that will permit some modest adjustments in the 2019 legislation giving judges more discretion in bail-setting.

Perhaps.

Where there is life there is hope, right?

Much more likely is that nothing meaningful will happen.

It will take changes at the molecular level before Albany will put more criminals behind bars — no matter how much they deserve it, and no matter how much public safety demands it.

After all, wasn’t Gov. Hochul just buffaloed into naming as New York’s top judge a left-leaning jurist who once labored out a 70-page opinion arguing that an elephant had a “human right” not to be in the Bronx Zoo?

Cop-boppers and drive-by shooters likely will have a real friend in this fellow.

Again, lightning might strike, Albany could come to its senses.

The sun may rise in the west tomorrow. Ha-ha.

The sad facts are that a progressive cult is in possession of New York right now — and that city and state voters are going to have to do something about that before they once again can feel safe in their own cities, neighborhoods and homes.

Elections do have consequences; Carl Heastie’s blather — and his stonewalling — are among them.

Email: bob@bobmcmanus.nyc