Mayor Michael Bloomberg blames guns for violence after West Indian Day Parade

Associated Press ^ | Sept. 6, 2011

[Free ThinkerNY]

NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg today blamed illegal handguns for a shooting that killed three people and wounded two police officers a few blocks from the route of the annual West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn, saying federal officials have not had the "courage" to take steps to control gun use.

Bullet fragments hit one police officer in the left arm and chest last night.

[ealgeone]

damn....how can one man be so stupid?

[Prospero]

Yes, those guns, always just "going off," on their own, all the time. A real problem.

So how's the weather over there in Wonderland, Yer Honna?

[mardi59]

I don’t remember this happening on Rudy’s watch......../

I don’t either. That’s because Rudy truly loves NY and it’s ppeople. Bloomberg loves power and money.

[mongo141]

Bloomberg just has to keep proving over and over that he is a complete F’ng Idiot!

[Beowulf9]

‘guns’ and not the sick societal atmosphere that NY has been turning it’s back on for years.

[Clock King]

How can millions of NY’ers be so stupid as to re-elect this dictator, for a third illegal term at that? Too much Sex In The City? (I know that’s not the title).

[NoLibZone]

It was democrat violence.

Regulate democrats.

[Venturer]

Makes about as much sense as New Yorkers electing a POS like Bloomberg.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Most Puerto Rican Day parades end up with a bunch of young punks trying to gang rape the women who attend. Is that a result of illegal guns too? Nanny Bloomberg can't bring himself to admit that each individual is responsible for his own conduct. Its the guns, or the salt, or the sweets, etc.

[Cobra64]

So the solution is, of course, to make more guns illegal—since illegal guns caused the problem in the first place.

Or just make the illegal guns more illegal.

Maybe make murder illegal?

[NY.SS-Bar9]

I am sure an equivalent number of people have been shot at the Columbus day parade, The St. Patrick’s day parade and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.

I must be the guns - couldn’t have anything to do with culture.

[Zebra]

If guns kill people, then spoons make them fat.

[Godwin1]

Bloomberg is partly right. Federal authorities have lacked the will and courage to halt massive immigration, legal and illegal, from crime-ridden, dysfunctional societies like Jamacia, from whence 99 percent of the parade participants and shooters hail.

[Godwin1]

Bloomberg is partly right. Federal authorities have lacked the will and courage to halt massive immigration, legal and illegal, from crime-ridden, dysfunctional societies like Jamacia, from whence 99 percent of the parade participants and shooters hail.

[sergeantdave]

Ah, the midget squeeks. Maybe if the Nazi troll bans sugar in restaurants, crime will fall.

[Henry Hnyellar]

When is the East Indian Day Parade?

[bikerman]

Yep those damn guns just jump up for no reason and start shooting Hey Bloomy you're an idiot.

[World'sGoneInsane]

ILLEGAL guns? The gun control laws are so tight honest citizens cannot protect themselves.

Armed, honest citizens would give the criminals something to think about. Maybe he should call the former mayor for some advice on how to clean up the streets, if all he can talk about is gun control.

[VRWC For Truth]

Bloombooger is a putz.

[JimC214]

There is a Sikh pride parade that is marched in Manhattan, but except for the free curry dishes they give out, no violence is done to any one.