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Bloomberg: What are Obama, Romney going to do?
Politico ^ | July 20, 2012 | Kevin Robillard

Posted on 07/20/2012 8:13:55 AM PDT by Zakeet

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has emerged as one of the nation’s highest-profile supporters of gun control, demanded on Friday that the presidential candidates “stand up and tell us what they’re going to do about” mass shootings.

Asked about the Colorado mass shootings at a movie theater showing “The Dark Knight Rises” in Aurora, Colo., that killed at least 12 people, Bloomberg said politicians needed to offer policy proposals in addition to prayers and sympathy.

“Soothing words are nice,” Bloomberg said during an interview on WOR News Talk Radio 710 in New York City. “But maybe it’s time the two people who want to be president of the United States stand up and tell us what they’re going to do about it, because this is obviously a problem across the country. ... No matter where you stand on the Second Amendment, no matter where you stand on guns, we have a right to hear from both of them, concretely, not just in generalities, specifically, what are they going to do about guns?”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; guncontrol; murder; shooting
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... and Libtards like me are just beginning to start our motors on this screed ... again!

1 posted on 07/20/2012 8:14:06 AM PDT by Zakeet
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Murders caused by gang violence are a major scourge of American cities. What are you, Rahm, and the rest of your liberal brethren who administrate these cities going to do about these gangs?
2 posted on 07/20/2012 8:17:59 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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Romney will have to be injected with massive doses of starch directly to the spine in order for him not to collapse on this issue.


3 posted on 07/20/2012 8:18:09 AM PDT by izzatzo (Just beat Obama.)
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To: Zakeet

Make a new law you dipshnit liberal. The killers are not following the law that you cannot murder, maybe they will follow the law that you cannot have a gun.


4 posted on 07/20/2012 8:18:56 AM PDT by Why So Serious (There is no cure for stupidity!!!)
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Guns are illegal in Chicago, you see how that has worked.


5 posted on 07/20/2012 8:20:28 AM PDT by Why So Serious (There is no cure for stupidity!!!)
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Hey Bloomy how many people got shot in your city last night in individual shootings?


6 posted on 07/20/2012 8:21:46 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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New York City has had about 200 murders so far in 2012.

How many have been committed by deranged white males wearing body armor? And, Mayor, what are you doing about the NYC murder rate? (And whatever you are doing or are not doing -- it isn't working.)

7 posted on 07/20/2012 8:21:46 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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Well as Governor, Romney already implemented his own “Assault Weapons” ban so we know where his true position lies on “Scary” guns.


8 posted on 07/20/2012 8:23:00 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency.)
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demanded on Friday that the presidential candidates “stand up and tell us what they’re going to do about” mass shootings.

There's an air to this that insinuates these events happen daily.

How about going to Israel for a week, Bloomie? I'd bet you'd feel more safe there than you do in your own city. Then again, you've got armed security details, so you don't count, do you?

This WILL become the undersea quake to start a gun-ban tsunami. It's coming.

9 posted on 07/20/2012 8:23:12 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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Stocking up before January just in case.

Heck, 12 dead? That’s almost a typical night in Chicago!


10 posted on 07/20/2012 8:23:41 AM PDT by TheRhinelander
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Bloomberg really fancies himself to be a national leader, doesn’t he?

Unemployment just passed 10% in NYC. Maybe he might want to pay some attention to affairs in his own jurisdiction, and we Americans will tend to ours.


11 posted on 07/20/2012 8:25:50 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
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...what are they going to do about guns?”

Check you at the entrance where a lot of people are gathered. If you don't have a gun, they issue you one to shoot back at the bad guys. I wonder how many good guns (concealed carriers) were at the event?

12 posted on 07/20/2012 8:26:23 AM PDT by TexasRedeye
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are you kidding me?

after the clinton “assault weapons ban” expired, governor mcromney instituted his own personal “assault weapon ban” for his state....

what do you think he will do with executive power?


13 posted on 07/20/2012 8:27:55 AM PDT by joe fonebone (I am the 15%)
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Didn't take Blooming Idiot long to try and hijack this tragedy for his anti-gun agenda, you would have thought he would have at least had the decency to let the bodies get cold....
14 posted on 07/20/2012 8:30:43 AM PDT by apillar
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What are you going to do?

A whole movie theater full of people and not a single concealed carry permitee who is capable of firing back? After the 2002 Moscow Theater hostage debacle, I woke up to how inviting a theater full of people would be to any terrorist, especially a jihadist.


15 posted on 07/20/2012 8:35:45 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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What are Obama, Romney going to do?

The people of Colorado can handle it just fine.

If somebody in that theater had been armed and trained, this pompous mental midget wouldn't be asking that question.

16 posted on 07/20/2012 8:37:35 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
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What all the gungrabbers are really doing today is throwing a party. They love it when somebody goes postal; they don’t give a rat’s ass about the people killed.


17 posted on 07/20/2012 8:38:49 AM PDT by MrKatykelly
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

The Zimmerman case didn’t cause enough fear and chaos.

Now they can further their gun control crap. Hmmm


18 posted on 07/20/2012 8:40:00 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's Welfare, Food Stamps, Division and Disability 'Legacy')
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Require every citizen to own and get training in how to use a gun. Enact “Shall Issue” CCW laws in every state. The bad guys won’t be so free with guns if they know that people are ready to shoot back.


19 posted on 07/20/2012 8:43:59 AM PDT by RonF
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I actually agree with this POS for once, politicians should clearly state their positions and intentions regarding gun control. That makes it easier for us to root out the hidden gun grabbers and then vote the SOBs out of office.


20 posted on 07/20/2012 8:45:33 AM PDT by RC one (this space intentionally left blank)
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