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.
For the US as a whole, yes. In Bloomberg's New York City, I think that 95% figure is probably accurate.
And the actual national figure for "minorities" (meaning blacks AND Hispanics) is higher. 2016 FBI homicide stats have blacks committing 52% of homicides, plus another 20% by Hispanics. In a "minority-majority" city like NYC, that means that minorities would account for the vast majority of homicides.
The previous comment is filled with simple-minded ignorance and a deliberate avoidance of details. A simple-minded person reading the statement would by necessity come to the conclusion that minorities are inherently violent and law breakers. The hidden message the previous poster is alluring to is of aracist nature, but istoo cowardly to just come out and say what is really on his mind. Hence the racial generalities, which is what prompted my original comment.
When push comes to shove, I don’t want to be around a person like that, as they have a murderous heart.
The previous comment is easily verifiable by irrefutable facts from any number of sources, including the FBI.
Your statement of opinion is just that, opinion without any facts to back it up.
You can have the last word.
I cannot understand why black people keep voting for democrats. Democrats all think this way. Black people wake up!
Actually hispanics in most surveys are included in the white/Caucasian category which is correct.
Amazing...if a conservative said that it would be leading the news...
"Hispanics" can be anywhere on the spectrum of 100% European descent, to 100% Native American. Illegals appear to be mostly mestizo, not Caucasian.
Somebody who is 75% European, 25% African is counted as black.
A history book I used had a painting of a black family gathered outside of their pitiful shack. I asked the students if the family depicted were slaves or free. They all assumed they were slaves. Then I pointed out the shotgun leaning against the door. That shotgun, I told them meant they were free. Slaves are forbidden arms, free men and women are not.
It goes even higher if you make it just black males. And 95% of those being killed by black males are...other black males.
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Blomberg is a government as God you as slave politician & this asshole would have no problem seeing you or mee sent to a reeducation camp or simply shot in the back of the head like the democratic socialists would love to do!
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