Posted on 10/26/2006 8:52:08 PM PDT by neverdem
CHICAGO, Oct. 25 — Raising his oratory against illegal guns, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sharply assailed the National Rifle Association on Wednesday during a visit here that also included a fund-raiser for the re-election campaign of Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut.
Mr. Bloomberg joined Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago at a news conference to promote a gathering of officials from 22 Midwest cities who are to discuss gun-control strategies on Thursday. Similar meetings are scheduled in Boston on Nov. 9 and Atlanta on Nov. 30.
The Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, which Mr. Bloomberg and Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston began with a meeting at Gracie Mansion in April, has grown to 109 mayors in 44 states — surpassing the goal of 50 mayors by the end of the year. But none of the officials, including the mayors of Milwaukee; Tulsa, Okla.; and Rockford and Palatine, Ill., who attended the news conference, on Wednesday at the Chicago Police Department, said they were close to success.
“Congress has not been an ally of those who favor common-sense gun legislation,” Mr. Daley said. “In fact we’ve had to work hard just to keep Congress from making things worse.”
Mr. Daley, in office since 1989 and the scion of a Democratic dynasty, and Mr. Bloomberg, a Republican who took office in 2002, portrayed support for gun control as a bipartisan issue and focused their ire on Washington.
“We have to make these politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, understand that the gun lobby does not speak for the vast majority of Americans, including those who own their own guns,” Mr. Daley said.
Mr. Bloomberg used the event to level some of his harshest comments ever at the National Rifle Association.
“The N.R.A. is just, plain and simple, out to stop anything...”
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NRA Life Member here.
This from the man who when asked about a proposed ban on cell phones in cars said, "Well I think everybody should keep at least two hands on the wheel."
Does this imply that if your mayor isn't part of this coalition, that your mayor is FOR illegal guns?
Kinda makes sense..........FRegards
Bloomberg won't even run. It would be a joke if he did.
Please, Mr. Daley, with all of Chicago's great gun control laws, explain to me why Chicago's crime statistics are so dismal?
For now I'm just a yearly, but I will become a life member.
Of all the stupid things Mr. Daley has said in the past, this is one of the stupidest.
Has Bloomberg endorsed Tom Kean Jr. in New Jersey??
Does he ever endorse Republicans?
Excellent idea; go for it.
NRA Life member here.
NRA: The world's OLDEST, and the world's LARGEST Civil Rights organization - dedicated exclusicvely to putting our Second Amendment FIRST! You can take THAT to the bank.
Bloomy is an insignificant tic-turd. A life-long Democrat, he became a "Republican" in the post 9-11 era to capitalize on Mayor Guiliani's popularity. Bloomy is an ass-bag and not likely to get Dems around here to vote for him, much less Republicans.
"Bloomberg won't even run. It would be a joke if he did".
I agree. I support many of the less-conservative Republicans, but Bloomberg is way over the top. I can think of a few democrats who I would vote for before I voted for Bloomberg. With that said, I cannot even imagine him trying to get the nomination.
Imagine where the party might be today, had not some of us refused to compromise!
Don't know about anyone else, but, I'm still refusing!
A liberal is a liberal, no matter what they call themselves, ____ them, and the horse they rode in on!
For that matter, I think that we should repeal the 1968 GCA and the 1934 NFA.
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