Posted on 12/11/2018 8:50:54 AM PST by Simon Green
Former New York Mayor and reported presidential wanna-be Michael Bloomberg held forth before a sold-out Aspen Institute crowd on Friday. Because he has billions of dollars, he draws crowds and is frequently asked his opinion on a range of topics, whether he has any expertise in the area or not.
After opining on topics such as marijuana legalization, education and poverty in the United States, the topic of “gun violence” was teed up for America’s foremost advocate of civilian disarmament.
As the Aspen Times reports:
Bloomberg claimed that 95 percent of murders fall into a specific category: male, minority and between the ages of 15 and 25. Cities need to get guns out of this group’s hands and keep them alive, he said.
“These kids think they’re going to get killed anyway because all their friends are getting killed,” Bloomberg said. “They just don’t have any long-term focus or anything. It’s a joke to have a gun. It’s a joke to pull a trigger.”
Except Mayor Mike is wrong. In fact, he’s not even close. Since 2000, minorities have committed about 55% of the murders in this country while whites were responsible for about 45%.
It’s a good thing Bloomberg didn’t put a bigoted, fake news item like that into a tweet or he might find himself banned from the platform or denounced as a white supremacist.
Tom King of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association pointed out the obvious:
“Mayor Bloomberg’s statement that black males should not be allowed to have guns echos similar sentiments made by southern white supremacists in the 19th century,” Tom King, the association’s president, said in a statement. “So called ‘Black Codes’ were enacted by various southern states to discriminate against black Americans and maintain the system of white supremacy that made slavery possible. These included restrictions on firearms possession.
“If a politician said this about anything other than guns, the mainstream media would be all over them,” Mr. King argued. “Michael Bloomberg isn’t just any politician, he is the leading voice for gun control in America. He should be held accountable for this slander.”
But, of course, he won’t. He isn’t a young Heisman Trophy winner or an Iraq War vet, after all. So he won’t be held to the same standard.
Michael Bloomberg is someone with whom the mainstream media agrees. They couldn’t be happier to help him further his gun-grabbing agenda, so calling him out on a statement like that isn’t in their interest.
And while Daddy Bloombucks may, in fact, be a bigot, let’s be fair…he isn’t a racist when it comes to guns. He’s always been an equal opportunity civilian disarmament advocate. Someone who wants to get firearms out of everyone’s hands (as long as they’re not wearing a uniform or working in his security detail). Mayor Mike’s just taking it slow and throwing his cash into the project, hoping to reach that ultimate goal down the road.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Minorities live in some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the country. They NEED 2A. I briefly worked for a gun dealer where some of our best customers were older black men who owned homes in neighborhoods where civilization had nearly ceased to exist.
If he keeps writing his opposition content, won’t be a lengthy campaign.
The obvious answer is to raise the soft drink tax. ../$
“Limited kudos to him for identifying the specific source of much of the problem, to wit - hyper-violent urban minorities.
Bigoted birds of a feather.
“Since 2000, minorities have committed about 55% of the murders in this country while whites were responsible for about 45%.”
Napkin math says this means blacks are six times more likely to be muderers.
It is crazy to go to the Aspen airport and see all the uber-rich private jets who flew in from NYC, LA and SF.
There are probably 50-100 there at just about anytime.
All of course backing the Global Warming scam.
Weeell. It has finally come out. We’ve always known this was the real reason the radical left wanted to disarm ALL Americans.
Bloomberg was just smitten with Biden-foot-in-mouth disease.
The Aspin Institute is where all the NWO globalist meet and greet. Lil Marco was invited there not long ago.
Denying minorities their Second Amendment rights is probably the most racist of statements, simultaneously denying them liberty and pursuit of happiness (which is code word for the right to keep and enjoy property), with even the likelihood that life itself could be denied.
The Second Amendment, with its right to keep and bear arms, would appear to be reserved to the majority ethnic group only, by what Michael Bloomberg says.
What is bigoted about that statement?
You’re a smart individual, I’m sure you can figure it out if you put your mind to it.
If disparate impact data based on race can be used to take rights away from whites, why can't it be used against minorities?
Once upon a time, I recall seeing an episode of “Nightline” on ABC. The subject of the broadcast was gun violence in Philadelphi, Pennsylvania and its vicinity, Shockingly, the material was presented in a factual manner. The conclusion was that most gun violence occurred in the inner city among minority populations while suburban and rural gun owners seldom engaged in gun crimes.
It isn’t bigoted in any way because it’s based on facts. Facts that are backed up by FBI statistics.
The post immediately following yours points out the truth..
If there’s any bigotry involved it’s on your part
Why, I never knew he said that.
Well, there goes President Bloomberg.
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