'Fascist!': Michael Bloomberg heckled by gun rights activists in Virginia

The Hill via MSN ^ | 2/15/20 | Kerry Picket

[Libloather]

RICHMOND, Virginia - A group of pro-Second Amendment activists heckled former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a campaign event early Saturday night.

Midway into Bloomberg’s remarks one protester yelled, “You’re f---ing fascist! ... you’re a racist!” The crowd began to boo the heckler and chant, “We like Mike.”

The group of protesters, some of whom were wearing “guns save lives” stickers, began chanting “guns save lives” as security pushed them out of the premise.

Bloomberg, who helped spearhead support for Virginia Democrats who promised to pass gun control legislation in the Commonwealth this year, boasted about helping the state legislature turn blue.

"I've been to Virginia more than anywhere else ... I have been involved in Virginia politics since long before I became a presidential candidate. In 2013 I was a big supporter of Terry McAuliffe," Bloomberg said.

[Wonder Warthog]

"You might want to rethink that last sentence."

Uh....no. See post #20.

[Terry L Smith]

Gun grabbing vs gun toting

[Terry L Smith]

I have lived in ny and it was always the ny resident jews that voted and touted anti gun rulings.

[Terry L Smith]

Are you sure its not tophet or moloch?

[elcid1970]

Unfortunately, the state of Israel is just as anti-private gun ownership as any social democracy in Europe. Gun collecting is illegal, and only retiring IDF officers are permitted to purchase their sidearm.

Any Israeli seen toting a weapon is an IDF soldier or reservist carrying their issued weapon. Includes those armed bikini girls on the Haifa beach.

You’d think that Jews, of all people, would have enshrined the right to bear arms and the right to self defense, after the horror of the Holocaust and the presence of murderous Muslims in their very midst.

[Eleutheria5]

“The group of protesters, some of whom were wearing “guns save lives” stickers, began chanting “guns save lives” as security pushed them out of the premise. “

Terry Picket, who never learned how to diagram a sentence./parody of bad writing

[Eleutheria5]

Scratch that. I missed “began chanting...”

Doesn’t say how many protestors, though.

[FLT-bird]

I seriously doubt the Torah informs Bloomberg’s thinking. His Jewish heritage is irrelevant. I’ll grant that he’s not the Trotskyist Sanders is but he is an incredibly arrogant elitist hypocritical authoritarian.

[Wonder Warthog]

"You’d think that Jews, of all people, would have enshrined the right to bear arms and the right to self defense, after the horror of the Holocaust and the presence of murderous Muslims in their very midst."

Correct! I simply have never understood it...it is simply INSANE.

And the Swiss model is well proven for all to see...yet NO other nation has adopted it...not even the US.

[oldvirginian]

“Bloomberg isn’t helping anyone doing what he is doing and being the way he is. Here is a very dangerous man.”

Yes he is and unfortunately he has billions of dollars to be dangerous with.

[oldvirginian]

Why so many Jews have drank the socialist kool-ade is beyond me. As you say they should know better.

However I take exception to branding an entire group of people due to the actions of even the majority of them. Muslims excluded of course.

[Clemenza]

I lived in NYC during Bloomberg’s reign. He may be ethnically Jewish, but, as Kinky Friedman would say is a member of the “Church of Latter Day Businessmen.”