NYC Mayor Blows Up At Reporter Over Gun Control Question (VIDEO)(laugh till you barf)

wpix.com ^ | 6 August, 2012 | MARY MURPHY

[marktwain]

QUEENS, NY (PIX11)— Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City may be taking a national stand against gun violence--but he apparently can't stand local, television reporters who challenge him on a city policy involving NYPD "shell casings."

The Mayor got testy with yours truly--Mary Murphy--when I questioned him Monday about the June sale of 28-thousand pounds of spent, shell casings from the NYPD's firing range in the Bronx….to an ammunition dealer in Georgia.

Bloomberg explained that competitive bidding allows anyone to buy scrap metal--and he suspects "some bullet manufacturer probably bought some to say, 'Gotcha'". The mayor has angered many gun dealers, especially in the South, with his campaigns to tighten the laws that make it so easy to buy weapons in certain states.

When PIX 11 asked Mayor Bloomberg if the city would change its policy, so ammunition dealers could not get access to NYPD shell casings, he started to maintain that the city is selling scrap metal, not bullets, and city officials have to be "stewards of the public's money." When I tried to interject, asking if the wrong message is being sent, the mayor told me that if I didn't let him finish the answer, I should "stand in the back of the room" at his next press availability. He then repeated his argument, "These are not bullets. This is scrap metal," and accused reporters of being fed information by a gun dealer "that gives you a story to rile up everybody."

[MCH]

Typical lib. Just change the name you call something, and you can then do whatever you want with it without having to explain yourself or any contradictions associated with your speech vs. actions. So, shell casings are just “scrap metal.” Just like human beings are just “genetic material” or “cells,” which would then justify killing them or doing whatever you want with them if they displease an elitist despot like the lord mayor.

[TXnMA]

"These are not bullets. This is scrap metal,"

Is Bloomingidiot really so ignorant that he actually does not know the difference between the terms, "bullet", and "cartridge"? Or, is he deliberately trying to obfuscate?

(Spent bullets, like spent brass ["cartridge cases"] are merely scrap metal. After firing, virtually zero of them are in any condition suitable for reloading. And, neither "bullets" nor "cartridge cases" -- as salvaged -- present any danger of being fireable...)

(My guess, in this case, is that he is afflicted with typical MSM-fed abject "urban ignorance" on the matter.) Gotta wonder if the @$$#0|3 has ever touched -- much less fired, a handgun...

In any case, he should keep his smelly tater-trap shut until he educates himself on the subject. (OTOH, maybe it is a good thing that he continues to sound exactly like the bloomingidiot that he really is...)

That such an imbecile can be elected to mayorality of a major city speaks volumes about the far submedian IQ of the northeast liberal electorate!! Dumb@$$3$, all!!!