Posted on 07/24/2012 5:45:52 AM PDT by Vaquero
Mayor Bloomberg suggested Monday that cops should go on strike to spur the nation’s leaders to get serious about cracking down on guns.
“I don’t understand why the police officers across his country don’t stand up collectively and say, ‘We’re going to go on strike. We're not going to protect you unless you, the public, through your legislature, do what's required to keep us safe,” Bloomberg said on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight.”
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A Mayor calling for his police to go on strike is about the most stupid thing I have ever read.
It isn’t a bad idea though. It might be rough for a while,but it wouldnt take long for vigilante justice to prevail and the criminals hanging off flagpoles and not weightlifting and playing basketball in the prisons.
The police assigned to Bloomie's bodyguard detail protect HIM just fine. I would love to see a law that said that bodyguards (and police assigned to bodyguard details) are not allowed to have any arms that would not be allowed to civilians in that area, and are subject to the same carry rules as civilians.
Hey Bloomberg - I have an idea. If they don’t feel safe, maybe we should allow the Police to carry guns.
See? Problem solved.
In New York State (and many others) LEO are prohibited by law from going on strike. Bloomie is advocating that the police break the law.
BTW, guns were not used to commit the greatest mass murder in United States history, rather the murders were committed by llegal aliens using box cutters and airplanes. But rather than demanding more immigration control to protect our borders, Bloomie and his leftest tards advocate open borders and less immigration control and enforcement. Go figure.
They can scream about gun control all they want. The fact is, AFTER the shooting, a significant number of Colorado residents purchased guns.
POLICE STRIKE... collective bargaining at the expense of the electorate’s safety. Nice trade there NY. If you ever get hit by a terror attack again NY... you are on your own this time. You have become the enemy yourselves and I no longer care about you. I am not alone in my anger towards you.
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PLEASE....watch what you say...the messiah and his minions in the regime may think that is a good idea.
Bloomberg has a fundamentally backward view of the relationship between a free citizen and the elected government. It makes no sense to quibble with his position on individual issues, because the error is at the root level, and that just can’t be fixed.
Nice try, blow-berg.
You are proof that there is no correlation between money and brains.
Further proof is the fact that you are in politics.
It can be no other way. If the police had a general duty to protect, the state would become legally responsible for every crime. Furthermore, if they had that duty, it would require them to have sweeping powers that are inconsistent with freedom.
The moral of the story is that the only ones who will protect you are you and yours. This is how it should be.
Wow, where did you get those case histories? Looks like a great source.
Thank you sir.
Finally, someone here has caught the salient point underlying his little tirade.
Just as the mask was ripped off when Obama said," You didn't build that," so it was done by Bloomberg when he suggested that police should enforce his own personal dictates, rather than the people remain free to decide such matters.
Fascism and Socialism are the two different sides of the same coin.
Remember:
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away!
Another issue exposed is the fact that progressivism is the same animal no matter which side of the aisle it comes from.
And how about violent movies, violent video games and twisted, broken families? Whatcha gonna do about those influences on youth, Chump?
PS Bloomie, the theater was a gun-free zone.
First Mayor Bloomberg wants to reduce the armed population of the nation to two groups; police officers and criminals. He has already done so in New York City.
Then Mayor Bloomberg wants the police to go on nation wide strike to get more restrictive but ineffectual gun laws passed.
A question mayor Bloomberg? Will striking police officers be required, or able, to respond to armed violence?
The way I see it mayor Bloomberg wants to first disarm everyone and then remove the police protection that is the last remaining, and very weak, wall between the law biding citizens and the criminals.
When you take his actions and statements at their face value this is what he wants.
HA-HA, Your boy Obama is in a re-election Bloomy and is not going to say a word in support of your ideas until it is over.
Maybe you should go to CO and run for office . Who needs a liberal mayor of NYC deciding gun laws for the entire country?
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