Posted on 04/16/2012 10:36:48 AM PDT by John Semmens
Using the Trayvon Martin shooting as a springboard, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg renewed his push for stronger gun control laws.
“If we learn nothing else from this tragedy we should at least come to grips with the fact that the average American cannot be trusted with firearms,” Bloomberg asserted. “I mean, if George Zimmerman weren’t carrying a gun would he have had the nerve to serve in the neighborhood watch? Probably not. But even if he did, isn’t it likely he would’ve kept his distance from a person he described as ‘suspicious?’”
As Bloomberg sees it, “we need to replace the antiquated and barbaric concept of ‘self-defense’ with a more civilized approach. Weapons should be restricted to trained professionals. If only the police had guns there’d be a lot fewer unwarranted shootings. Trayvon would still be alive and so probably would Zimmerman, albeit, perhaps a bit more battered and bloodied. After all, it’s not so easy to beat a person to death.”
Bloomberg dismissed charges of hypocrisy—he himself is accompanied by armed bodyguards wherever he goes—as “off target.” “I’m not saying that people don’t need protection,” Bloomberg said. “That’s what the police are for. If a person thinks he needs more protection than the police can provide he should be free to hire qualified professionals, as I have done for occasions when I’m not traveling with the bodyguards supplied by the City.”
In related news, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that President Obama will not be making further comments on the Trayvon Martin case. “The President has already made his views known,” Carney told reporters. “Now it is up to the Florida authorities to see to it that Zimmerman is appropriately punished. Attorney General Holder will be monitoring events to ensure that this happens.”
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Speak for youirself, Bloomberg! Some of us don’t like waiting 20 minutes for a response to a 911 call!
It’s scary because it’s so easy to see Bloomberg saying that. Used to be you would read something like that and say, “No way! That’s gotta be a spoof”. Not so much anymore.
This came awful close to getting me. Just before my head exploded I thought, "Wait!!! I better check."
It's getting hard to decipher satire these days.
I say short people aren’t enough of a man to qualify for any public office.
Michael Bloomberg can’t be trusted with scissors.
This one is just a little to close to the truth to qualify as satire. I can close my eyes and hear and picture Bloomberg saying this with absolutely no problem whatsoever.
> ... we need to replace the antiquated and barbaric concept of ‘self-defense’ with a more civilized approach ...
BS, we need to have every citizen armed.
Several years ago, I had the misfortune of entering a convenience store late at night, while it was being robbed. The robber pointed a gun at me and locked me in a store room along with the clerk and the manager. It took three 911 calls, using the phone in the store room, and 3 hours before police showed up to let us out of the locked room. It took another hour of “statements” before they let me go home (and they never caught the guy).
This would happen far less often if criminals knew that there are armed people out there ready to put out their lights.
Another one that is hard to tell from reality. I can actually imaging Bloomberg saying such a thing...
If not, who can? The police? The military? The national guard? The politicians in Washington (or New York!)? This moron thinks these people are not average Americans?
The average American is far more trustworthy than a politician.
If not, who can? The police? The military? The national guard? The politicians in Washington (or New York!)? This moron thinks these people are not average Americans?
The average American is far more trustworthy than a politician.
If not, who can? The police? The military? The national guard? The politicians in Washington (or New York!)? This moron thinks these people are not average Americans?
The average American is far more trustworthy than a politician.
Fooling people, and causing them to look like fools, is a venial sin in the Catholic Church.
Words fail me to fully describe this ignorant, self-obsessed piece of excrement...
Guns stop rape.
Bloomberg has continued the “war on women”.
Word.
Every time I see bloomy I’m reminded of the Peter Sellers character Chance the Gardner (or Chauncey Gardner) from the movie “Being There”
He needed someone to dress him, too.
You tricked me.
Ya got me...again. :^)
I know this is satire, but I swear I've heard Bloomie say this, just not in so many words.
Is this guy nucking futs?
Hey Bloomberg, “average” Americans rallied at Concorde, you withered, bilious, buffoon.
These people are so dangerous to our freedoms and Constitution.
The assumption that only danger can result from people carrying guns is used to justify the government's having a monopoly of force. The notion that the people cannot be trusted to keep and bear their own arms informs us that ours, like the time of Solomon, may be one of great riches but is also a time of peril to free people. If Christ is not our King, we shall have a dictator to rule over us, just as Samuel warned. (Larry Pratt)The Bible and Gun Control
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