Mike Bloomberg is . . .
. . . and that's all, folks!
Nanny State PING!
Posted on 12/19/2012 9:00:46 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
By now, if you have been paying attention to the pronouncements of Hizzoner, you know that New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg really dislikes, among many other things, guns. He also appears to have engaged in a one-man crusade to convince politicians that, if the President of the United States can be reelected without the support of the National Rifle Association, so too can the most rural Congressman or Southern Senator. The logic of that belief is debatable, but what is not debatable is the logic that the NRA would go out of their way to defend the indefensible – even the personal ownership of a small cannon designed to fire nuclear-tipped artillery shells. Or, at least, so sayeth the mayor.
“The U.S. Army has a rifle — they call it a rifle, I would call it a cannon; it’s attached to the front of a tank or a moving vehicle,” Bloomberg said on Tuesday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC. “It shoots a nuclear warhead. The NRA would say, ‘Oh, that’s a gun. And people have a right to have that.’”
“Where is the limit here,” Bloomberg asked to co-host Mika Brzezinski as she nodded sagely in resigned disapproval.
I’m no expert on fire arms, but I would venture that “the limit” of what the NRA would defend in terms of an individual’s Second Amendment rights ends several miles before “nuclear cannon.” But we are now deep into the hyperbole phase of national tragedy – when those with axes to grind or pet projects to advance have already made their case many times over, and flail in search of new and more resonating arguments. Next, we enter the long-anticipated terrible analogy phase.
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Living proof that money does not confer intelligence.
I wonder if he has ever actually been outside of NYC?
I just wish he’d leave the country and live somewhere else.
Mike Bloomberg is . . .
. . . and that's all, folks!
Nanny State PING!
Whats a Davy Crockett going for these days ... great conversation piece ... BTW Bloomberg is a “blooming idiot”
Mike Bloomberg is . . .
. . . and that's all, folks!
Nanny State PING!
at least he didn’t threaten to kill anyone. yet.
The drawback of a nuclear cannon is that each one can only be used once.
The price alone is a deterrent for a nuclear cannon. Only the wealthy could afford one.
Back in DaVinci’s time, only the very wealthy could afford cannons or guns.........that’s why he was, among other things, a weapons designer....paid pretty well.......
At a bare minimum people should have the right to bear the same arms as those they pay to keep law & order (the police). In England the cop doesn’t have a gun, and the subjects don’t either. In the US our cops are acting more as a paramilitary (helicopters, armored vehicles, and such); whatever they’re packing their employers (us, the taxpayers who pay them and buy their equipment) should have the right to pack as well.
Ayone who doesn’t understand why a government would want to disarm its citizenry really has their head up their arse; we were born of a revolt, and have never forgotten that.
You aren't correct very often blooming idiot, but this time you hit the bullseye.
Wow. Bloomscum is not illiterate, so he knows what “arms” means. So he is using classic communist propaganda. What a shock. NOT.
BTW, I believe Letter of Marque are still good law (look it up). Of course obastard would never sign one, but if a Constitutionalist ever recaptued the White House (unlikely), wouldn’t that blow this statist’s gaskets...
Technically, some cannons are still lawful to build and own without federal approval.
The federal government actually borrowed civilian owned cannons back when it was just barely started.
See letters of marque and reprisal in the Constitution.
/johnny
Doesn’t this guy have a disaster to clean up?
Too bad that Asian fellow pushed in front of the train didn’t have a cannon; he could have at least hidden under the carriage while Obama’s son was ranting & raving (because everyone knows that the NYPD, which might give shoes to homeless people, won’t stop them from killing you for fear of losing their badges, pensions, and freedom).
Dear Mayor Bloomberg :
There is no safer person with whom to trust a “nuclear cannon” than little ol’ me. You, on the other hand, can’t even be trusted with a ball point pen. You’ve hurt more people with your signature than have ever been killed by “nuclear cannons.”
Sincerely,
piasa
Depleted uranium is a bit beyond his comprehension.
Um, no. Cannons (nuke shells or not) are munitions. Riffles are arms. Big difference.
I assume he just wants them to be under 16oz.
As opposed to a commie, New York fag who won't defend a person's right to have a salt shaker or a Big Gulp. FUMB!
“The U.S. Army has a rifle — they call it a rifle, I would call it a cannon; it’s attached to the front of a tank or a moving vehicle,”
Sorry Mikey. I think you've got the U.S. Army confused with Mikey Dukakis. I've never heard of or seen a "rifle" attached to the front of a tank. You're right. You don't know anything about firearms.
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