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NRA Calls out Michael Bloomberg for Gun Control Efforts

By Paul Bedard

February 9, 2011 RSS Feed Print

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s coast-to-coast campaign to send aides to gun shows for sting operations in states like Nevada, Ohio, Virginia, and New York to make easy and allegedly illegal purchases is being called out by the National Rifle Association. New NRA Political Director Chuck Cunningham recently visited New York to cheer on the troops and hit Bloomberg for trying to limit guns. He referenced Bloomberg’s struggle with snow removal in blasting him. “Mayor ‘Blame’ is not after illegal guns, he is after your guns. Now that’s a real snow job.” Cunningham, meanwhile, tells Whispers that several states are planning to lash back at Bloomberg’s stings by enacting laws prohibiting gun dealer entrapment schemes like those the mayor’s agents allegedly use.

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NRA,
Michael Bloomberg,
gun control and gun rights

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... and having to write another sympathy letter to the victim’s family. He doesn't want anybody's guns but only to return some degree of reasonable gun control to this great democracy. The murder rate due to handguns in the US is appalling and over ten times that of European and other western countries.

I agree with upholding the constitution but do not believe our founding fathers ever put ideology above common sense.

I suggest you try to consider the other side of this argument if you truly love America and its people.

Sincerely,

Prolife

Fred of MA 1:13PM August 01, 2011

Bloomberg can't pick and choose which amendments of the Bill of Rights he will recognize. According to absolutist interpretation, which he applied to Ground Zero Mosque, there is no such thing as "illegal guns" just as there is no illegal books, illegal houses of worship. This is what makes this country great. All NYC gun laws are unconstitutional and void.

Leon Black of NY 11:12AM February 17, 2011

I've read the remarks shown about this column, and with the exception of the guy claiming to be one of the gun show sellers, the posts are about accusing the National Rifle Association of being a criminal activity.

...it seems clear that notwithstanding the disclaimers to the contrary..." I am a lifelong hunter" .... or "I am a gun owner"......the posts have been made by Liberal shills with nothing to add but personal hate and prejudice against the only organization in America that works effectively to support one thing and one thing only.....the Constitutional Right of "The People" to keep and bear arms without infringement by the Government.....

and that is what drives the Liberal Left into a frenzy......the effectiveness of the National Rifle Association......

As a Life Member of that organization, I believe that without such support of Constitutional freedoms, America would quickly be corrupted into just another Euro-Socialist-Pseudo-Dictatorship where the citizens have no voice and have no hope of self-governance......just like the European Union is today.....

That is the vision of Mayor Bloomberg and like minded Liberals who cannot abide freedom, individual choice, and Constitutional Liberty.......to turn America into a wasteland without freedom, where the self-appointed "elites" rule from high above in their ivory towers and their multi-million dollar penthouses.......

D.R. Smith of NE 3:51AM February 16, 2011

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