Bloomberg lost, and lost big-time, not because of a paid opposition wading in money, but because of a viral grass-roots effort organized by average Americans provided with information by several pro-Second Amendment advocacy groups.
The great pity is Bloomberg and the rest of the self-proclaimed "progressives" never learn anything from history, so they'll return to fight the same battle, and fight it again, and again, and again until they achieve some large or small portion of a so-called "compromise," which will prompt them to fight new battles for the next incremental loss of our freedom.
Some day, self-proclaimed "liberalism" and "progressivism" will take their rightful place on the same shelf with slavery, Jim Crow, racial segregation, and other monumentally, utterly wrong ideas. America makes progress. Self-proclaimed "progressives" fight it every inch of the way.
Bloomberg didn't lose anything. He simply failed to destroy some of out rights, but he and his evil friends lost nothing. Money you say? Inconsequential to him. He'll simply pass the cost on to the morons of NY who voted for him
When we lose, we actually lose something. When the antigunners lose they haven't lost any rights. They're not in danger of having their property confiscated or going to jail for violating some tyrannical malum prohibitum law They face no consequences for losing.