Bloomberg says gun control is a winner with swing voters
Michael Bloomberg and Ray Kelly.
10:33 am Aug. 10, 20127
One way to win over swing voters in the presidential election, according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is to advocate gun control.
"I think the ways to get a majority of them would be to stand up and say, 'Look, I'm not gonna be president of the United States and have 48,000 people killed, murdered with illegal guns in the next four years in my term. I'm just not going to do that,'" he said, during his regular Friday morning radio appearance on the John Gambling Show. "'And here's what I'll do. Now, Congress may not pass it. But I'm gonna work as hard as I can. This is where I stand.' And I think that's the ways that they would get a majority of that 20 percent, which is what they need to win.
"And my political analysis—and I should leave it to the pundits, but—40-odd percent are gonna vote for Barack Obama no matter what, and 40-odd percent are gonna vote for Mitt Romney, no matter what, and the whole battle is for that 20 percent in the middle. And those are people who aren't dogmatic. "
(The number of genuine swing voters may be considerably lower than that.)
The mayor has come to represent the face of gun control in the United States (though he prefers the politically modulated term "crime control"), and shows every sign of boosting those efforts come 2014.
In the aftermath of the Aurora shootings, he's repeatedly called on President Obama and Mitt Romney to elucidate some sort of stance on guns. Aside from a assertion by Obama that assault rifles don't belong on the street, which his spokesmen subsequently said the president had no intention of pursuing legislatively, neither has complied.
The mayor, who overturned term limits and spent more than $100 million to win a third term, purports not to understand their motivations.
"And incidentally, as I've said before, if you lose, you lose," he said. "You really want to say, me getting this job is more important than saving lives? Now where'd you learn that? In Civics 101, 102? Not the one I took."
The mayor has yet to endorse a candidate for president, and recently he indicated that gun control would not necessarily swing his endorsement one way or the other.
Today, he implied otherwise.
"I don't know what I'm going to do about endorsement," he said, adding, "I don't think either candidate yet has represented New York in what we really care about, like getting guns off the streets."
Bloomberg is a major asshole. He doesn't know the first thing about fighting crime. If more people were allowed to own guns and have concealed carry permits in NYC, crime would go down, way down. The grave yards however would start to become overcrowded, because there would be more dead criminals. Considering the overcrowding already in the city, maybe Bloomberg should ask Montana if they would allow us to bury some criminals in thier state. Montana's hypothetical response to this might be "Only if you send them to us alive and we get to kill them."
I would suggest to anyone that thinks that removing guns from the hands of law abiding citizens will prevent tragedies, and criminals from possessing them become fully aware of the statistics surrounding the argument. I would suggest reading John R. Lott's Book titled "More Guns, Less Crime". You will be as shocked as I was to see that more guns actually does equal less crime according to the FBI's own Uniform Crime Reports!
umm gun control has been a loser since 94 and because of that the Dems paid a hefty price, so why would it be popular now? well it's not, there is conceal carry laws that allow citizens to carry guns in self defense in 49 of the 50 states, semi automatic rifles are now the norm of hunters and gun control laws have been either struck down in the courts or repealed via legislation on the federal and state level accross the country. Gun ownership is on the rise and for the forseable future it will continue to do so. As the government becomes more restrictive and tyranical people will seek to protect themselves and their property with guns. Please bring up guncontrol as the Dems platform and you will see another whiping like you did in 94. Focus on criminals not the tools, since only the law abiding public follow laws criminals don't.
Gun control will do absolutely NOTHING to get guns off the streets. They are ILLEGAL GUNS...I know very hard to comprehend.
Gun control will do absolutely NOTHING to get guns off the streets. They are ILLEGAL GUNS...I know very hard to comprehend.
Mr. Bloomberg:
Thank you so much for relentless efforts on gun control and unapologetic for selling the used shells to Georgia Arms, you are going to be loved by both the gun-control folks and gun-toting folks, the gun control people love your rhetoric, the later love to buy cheaper ammo because of your policy of selling shells!
You are really a piece of wonder, a genius and a 100% politician, no pun intended here!!!
Shoufeng
Ridiculous.
New York is King Blue when it comes to electoral politics.
What New York voters want is NOT what most of the rest of America wants.
It will go for the Communist-In-Chief no matter what, as surely as the sun rises in the East, and will continue to vote for leftists for the presidency until Jesus's Second Coming.
So, what's this article except a big wind blowing nothing but hot air?