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Mayor Bloomberg: We Need an Assault Weapons Ban Because Mass Shootings ‘Only Happen in America’

Dec. 16, 2012 2:50pm Mytheos Holt

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is known for his staunch support for stricter gun control, and his outspokenness in championing that cause.

After Friday’s shootings in Newtown, Conn., Bloomberg made a point of opining about the necessity for another assault weapons ban, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday and claiming that the kind of mass shooting under discussion “only happens in America.”

National Review Online reports:

“What the president can do is number one, through executive action, he can order his agencies to enforce the laws more aggressively,” Bloomberg said. “I think there’s something like 77,000 people who have been accused of lying when they applied for a gun permit. We’ve only prosecuted 77 of them.”

Bloomberg didn’t mention his source for those numbers during the program.

“Nobody questions the second amendment’s right to bear arms,” the mayor continued, “but I don’t think the founding fathers had the idea that every man, woman, and child could carry an assault weapon.”

Dismissing the idea that politicians had reason to fear going against the NRA, Bloomberg remarked, “The NRA’s number one objective this time was to defeat Obama for a second term. Last time I checked the election results, he won and he won comfortably. This myth that the NRA can destroy political careers is just not true.”

Host David Gregory did push back on Bloomberg at one point in the broadcast, pointing out that the guns involved were all purchased legally, and that only one of them could have been prohibited under an assault weapons ban. Bloomberg admitted that his policy preferences couldn’t necessarily have stopped this particular incident, but still argued that there was a trend at work that could be mitigated by stricter gun laws.

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sparkyrules
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:21pm
That’s right Doomberg.Obama can enforce existing law more aggressively,and should.Go after the criminals and fraudulent applications for firearm purchases.But it still won’t stop these nut jobs from doing their evil deeds.Look at what that sick SOB McVeigh did in Oklahoma,without using a firearm.Look what happened in China recently,with a man using a knife.
Maybe its time to consider mandatory trigger locks on firearms.If the unlocked firearm is used in a crime,the owner of said firearm gets prosecuted to the fullest and is just as guilty as if he/she were the person who did the criminal act.

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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:02pm
  Anyone who studies world history knows that the only real mass shootings occur in Communist nations, which by the way, disarm their citizenry. How many people have been murdered by these regimes? Tens of millions…
  
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- Lt_Scrounge
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:03pm
  Why not use a tried and proven method to end these mass shootings at schools? Israel had a problem with terrorist attacks on their schools. They trained those teachers who volunteered to carry and use a concealed handgun in a tactical manner. The next couple of terrorist attacks on Israeli schools went decidedly differently than expected as the teachers would shoot the terrorists before they could kill very many kids. As a result, the terrorists no longer considered the schools easy targets and stopped attacking them. The most effective method for stopping a mass murderer is to simply put a couple of rounds into his/her chest and another in the head. END of shooting rampage.
  
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- TommyandtheCommieKillers
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:06pm
  Hey Sparky, you first. If someone steals your unlocked car and rams a crowd of people, you go to prison for the rest of your life.
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:10pm
  I say we make the Capitol building a Gun free zone, and ban all armed guards from politicians. Let’s see how the will like those apples. I’m sick and tired of these liberal politicians making no sense, and spouting their fantasy policies bases in lala land. They can go to work in their secure job sites, and they leave our children unsecured. Every parent should call their representatives to ensure schools are not left unprotected any longer, and to repeal these stupid feel good do nothing liberal and RINO laws. If these politicians want to disarm us, and deny us a right to protect our children, then let them lead by example and abandon all security protocols ensuring their safety.
  
  “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.”
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:13pm
  “Mayor Bloomberg: We Need an Assault Weapons Ban Because Mass Shootings ‘Only Happen in America’ ”
  
  You mean they don’t occur in Norway where gun control is in force?
  
  How about Switzerland where every citizens is REQUIRED to own a gun, and has one of the lowest crime rates on earth?
  
  And how about people like this short geek stop trying to purge Christian values from the school?
  
  And how about directing the attention of people away from video games where killing people is ingrained in their psyche until murder is just another form of expression?
  
  These leftist dregs want gun control They don’t care about lives lost. They know their sick utopia can never be implemented if the populace is well-armed.
  
  When isa this little pig up for re-election. His city is a didsaster in the aftermath of Sandy, yet he turns his attention to leftist policies instead of helping those who suffered losses and still don’t have full power.
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:17pm
  Bloomberg is the dumbest A. in office. (there are many in competition with him, but he wins the D.A. prize) Uh, DUH, DOPEBERG: What about SYRIA? Right now. SCUD missiles now.
  
  I marvel at the people who “just don’t know how this could happen” …. They ridicule their CREATOR, the Entity who is hoping they will use this short, testing-period life, to choose Him and Heaven over sin and evil. WE CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS people. We cannot have FREE WILL and then expect GOD to “protect us” too, especially when we let others ridicule him, on NYC’S Transit system, Bloomberg, for example. When we allow Satan’s agents (Atheists) to try and stop all discussion of GOD.
  IS it BRUTAL?? YOU BET. GOD knows what it’s like to lose a Son. CAN we CHANGE things here on Earth? IF we have the heart to do so and the FAITH exhibited. Don’t like this? Tough. Welcome to the real world. There is GOOD. There is EVIL. Evil is trying to snuff out all GOOD. WE need to fight EVIL. That means respecting LIFE; respecting families; respecting discipline and honor. Taking care of the mentally ill tossed out on the streets by REAGAN and kept there by Clinton, Bush,Bush and Obama. Life is tough. Life here is ONLY a test. I pray for all of us to pass that test. I’m against radicals who think we can do anything without GOD.
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:17pm
  Criminals don’t even register or get licenses. What makes you think they’ll use a gun with a lock? Mexico has banned all guns from citizens, yet drug cartels get them from third world countries and other black markets. We don’t live in a perfect world. It be nice if all our hands were tied and only permitted to be released when doing something lawful, wouldn’t it?
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:20pm
  @Valiant:
  
  Not just communist, there is the massacre of all the kids in Norway a couple of years back; that one was in a Socialist nation (still close to a communist nation though).
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:21pm
  I guess Bloomberg has never read about the multiple mass shootings and executions committed by drug cartels in Mexico. Mexico’s murder rate is two times more than the US, though they have a smaller population, and prohibit private ownership of guns.
  
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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:35pm
  I watched Meet The Press this morning and I can’t believe David Gregory did not challenge him on that statement. Bloomberg is a total fraud:
  http://www.isthatbaloney.com/alex-jones-give-prophetic-warning-about-gun-control-laws-and-comments-on-fake-obama-crying/
  
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- F.O.S. DIAPERHEAD
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:40pm
  I blame the Fed. It has allowed people in this country to act selfish and irresponsible to the point that this country has lost its soul. Outside of that – that’s Life! S!!T happens. In nature it’s natural s!!T. In a man made society it’s man made s!!t. Innocent people die all the time on the interstate thanks to carelessness by others yet we don’t so nationalize and put faces on those tragedies. Nobody needs to see and hear all of this stuff. What’s the point? I’m gonna look at this a little less than everyone else then talk a little about it then go about my usual business. Watching this or not won’t make a bit of difference in my life outside of pointless casual conversation like this. It’s a local issue.
  
  We all know what can happen when someone wants to kill. They’ll find a way to do it no matter what you do unless you are prepared to defend. The government will never be able to prevent horrors like this and your a fool to think they can. There are enough willing people in this country that if left alone they will a find a way of dealing with these problems without the federal govmnt getting involved. It’s a local issue!!!!! The rest of us don’t need to see or hear all that! Shame on the blaze!
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:46pm
  How did the gun grab in Germany work out for the Jews…hmmm. Would have been hard to defend yourself with a rotten potato now wouldn’t it…..
  
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- Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:51pm
  Bloomberg has 24 hour on site taxpayer police protection. We have no taxpayer protection. My gun is my protection. No way will the guns be confiscated.
  Average response time of police 12 minutes. Average response time of a 357 is micro seconds.
  
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- Unix
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:51pm
  We need to ban the word ‘BAN’ and Bloomberg from office, he is nothing more than a communist! To you LIBS, Molon Labe!
  
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- sparkyrules
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:54pm
  Hey TommyandtheCommieKillers.We have to at least consider different measures. Adam Lanza would never have been able to use those guns,if his mother had installed trigger locks.It may or may not have stopped the freak,I don’t know. People aren’t driving around plowing into innocent lives with cars on a regular basis,but I understand your point.
  
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- Dolley
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:54pm
  Still wouldn’t have been effective in this egregious act. He killed the gun owner before he went to the school, so there was no one left to prosecute – which is the case in probably more than half of these cases.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:57pm
  Did I just hear Bloomburg say he was going to take the guns away from his body guards or is he so great he just has to be protected. After all the guns are removed from society he will have to eliminate cars & trucks. Can you imagine what would have happened if this guy had gone to NY City and stole a UPS truck and ran down a crowded sidewalk full of Christmas shoppers. The same thing for a car hitting a big crowd at high speed. I guess we could ban them to and put everyone on a bicycle but I want to see the politicians on bikes also and just think how healthy it would make them. Wow we could stop global warming here in the USA.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:15pm
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- francisco
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:16pm
  Thats right Bloomberg this kind of thing only happens in America. I guess we can forget all about Anders Breivik who killed 77 people mostly teenagers or how about the Massacre in Beslan which killed almost 400 children.
  
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- IndyGuy
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:20pm
  Bloom(ing idiot)berg……….Enough said…
  
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- PR-WY
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:23pm
  sparkyrules
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:54pm
  
  Hey TommyandtheCommieKillers.We have to at least consider different measures. Adam Lanza would never have been able to use those guns,if his mother had installed trigger locks.It may or may not have stopped the freak….
  
  We already have trigger locks! and action locks….and gun safes…and and and…..
  
  There already ARE rules about trigger or action locks on firearms, it is one of the biggest things stressed by the BATF when getting an FFL.
  
  The root of the problem that progressive ostriches refuse to consider, the people! Crime is committed by people, not objects, regulating the object still does not address the real issue, that people refuse to be responsible for their actions, or hold others responsible for their actions. It’s always, ‘oh you are a victim of something or another….you poor baby’.
  This attitude needs to stop, and people need to be taught that they will be held responsible for their actions.
  
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- ashestoashes
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:27pm
  Gee..I wonder what possible connection that there could be in Mayor Bloomberg and the NWO Globalalist elistist Rothschilds and Rockefellers? Mass murders only happen in America? That’s rich..how about all those mass murders committed by governments once they got gun control legislation passed..Approximately 56 million people rounded up and slaughered by their own government..Austrailia.12 mos after..homicides up 3.2% Assaults.up 8% Armed robberies up 44% In Victoria Aus..Homicides up 300% After establishing gun control..people rounded up and murdered.
  Soviet Union..20 million..Germany..13 million..China..20 million..Guatemala..100 thousand..Uganda..300 thousand Cambodia..1 million.. Slaughtered..educated people..dissidents..Christians..homosexuals.Jews..union workers. handicapped.
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:36pm
  BLOOMBERG IS A INSANE NUT CASE. WAS HE FRIENDS WITH LONZA?
  
  Where does this Rich Mayor who has symptoms of alzheimers get his ideas. He would create a dictatorship over this and throw away 300 years of democracy. We are a nation of LAWs not a nation of MEN. He was speaking about gun control before mothers and fathers had not stopped screaming over their loss. Mayor, banning a soft drink is not the same as banning our rights.
  
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- 1TrueOne55
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:46pm
  SPARKYRULES
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:54pm
  Hey TommyandtheCommieKillers.We have to at least consider different measures. Adam Lanza would never have been able to use those guns,if his mother had installed trigger locks.It may or may not have stopped the freak,I don’t know. People aren’t driving around plowing into innocent lives with cars on a regular basis,but I understand your point.
  I bet she did have trigger locks or at least they were locked in a gun safe. I read an article that she was killed in her bed with 4 shots to the head. He obviously may have planned this ahead and waited for her to fall asleep. After that he decided to take the weapons that she purchased and registered with the state police as is the law for Connecticut.
  I also read on the Blaze that she was trying to find help for her son’s mental issues but was not finding any, well you can blame Federal Money Policy and Obama care for that problem. This might have prevented the shooting because he would have been in treatment maybe even in a committed facility but Progressive Politics and their abuse of “committed” patients. So we have the hesitancy to put people back into facilities for the mentally handicapped.
  
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- PoliticiansRCrooks
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 6:10pm
  Hmm As I recall In Netherlands their was a massive shooting. In Muslim Countries they get killed every day by their own government because they don’t have weapons to defend them selves. The Government is getting way out of hand. It is so obvious they want to rule the people. Only way to do it is to get rid of their guns. Hitler did it.
- RabidPatriot
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 6:20pm
  Bloomberg knows what he is saying is not true. His words are designed to gain support for a knee jerk reaction to ban guns. He knows that most Americans are uninformed, emotional, irrational sheep. He is a master manipulator of fools. Fools in America will see that headline, believe it, and blindly follow his direction. Violence and the criminal use of firearms is a complicated issue that is beyond most people to understand. A ban on firearms will not decrease violence in the U.S. because there are too many firearms already in circulation. The U.S. would have to declare marshal law for decades, void the Constitution, and do warrantless searches of every home to even put a dent in firearms. I’m pretty sure that would lead to violent clashes against the government.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 6:22pm
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- commies.in.the.wire
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 6:25pm
  We don’t have a gun problem, we have a communist problem.
  
  Looks like high noon in America ladies & gents, this country isn’t big enough for both Americas. This is why the founders wrote the 2nd Amendment in the first place. Lexington & Concord any day now. Time to soon restore the Republic. The division is worse than 1860. Sad for what is to come.
  
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- 226crimsontrace
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 6:30pm
  Trigger locks are effective only to some one who doesn’t know what a hacksaw is. A 20 year old that has ever been in a tool shed would have a trigger lock in two pieces with a hacksaw almost as quickly as the owner with the keys
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 6:31pm
  FBI 2011 Crime Statistics:
  
  Murders:12, 664
  Firearms used: 8,567
  Handguns: 6,215
  Rifles: 323
  Shotguns: 353
  Knives: 1688
  Other Weapons: 1654
  Hands or Feet: 726
  
  Yes, so Bloomy is correct lets ban assault weapons because more murders where committed using them in 2011. Bloomy is as bad as Holder, Hollywood, and Barry and his band of 40 thieves.
  
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- DougHuffman
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 6:44pm
  Mandatory is tyranny.
  
  Good people ought to be armed as they will, with wits and Guns and the Truth. God Damn progressives.
  
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- Advection
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 6:50pm
  If he believes this, he’s a danger to society. He should be impeached immediately for gross incompetence.
  
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- commies.in.the.wire
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 6:58pm
  INDEPENDENT4233, These leftist dregs want gun control They don’t care about lives lost. They know their sick utopia can never be implemented if the populace is well-armed.
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  BINGO!!! That’s the only reason they want to ban firearms!!!!!
  
  Odumbass is there right now, grandstanding & exploiting those dead children. When is he going to Pakistan to hold a candlelight vigil for the dead kids he kills when ordering a drone strike/?
  
  This kid was on psychotropic drugs,a zombie on big pharma products with a stolen gun. Why isn’t the media talking about this huh? Because BIG PHARMA, pays their bills with BIG advertising!
  
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- Jinglebob
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 7:00pm
  We have plenty of laws on the books concerning gun laws but they have to be enforced. I would be in favor of a “coolinf off period”, meaning several days after apply before the buyer could pick up the gun. many states have this but gun laws, the details are the business of the states. The states supersed the Feds in gun control. Another thing, I have never seen a Pol that is able to describe an “Assualt Weapon” that is truthful. The largest mass killing that comes to mind happened in either Sweden or Finland Mr. Mayor, a country with the most restrive gun laws..
  
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- Recceman90
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 7:28pm
  Mass shootings happen in every Country, unfortunately certain Countries report them as gang violence or other violent crimes but always minus the gun aspect. They wouldn’t want everyone to know that their gun control policies don’t work, except to create more victims!
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 7:46pm
  Ahmed Ibragimov was a Chechen spree killer who killed at least 34 Russian inhabitants of the Chechen village of Mikenskaya on October 8, 1999. He was captured two days later by Chechen rebels and handed over to relatives of his victims, who then handcuffed him to a pole and clubbed him to death with metal rod.
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  This never happened because as the Great Mayor Bloomberg noted this only happens in America.
  
  Don;t mention china. We would not want to make Mayor Bloomberg look bad. He does that well enough himself.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 7:55pm
  If you are willing to steal a gun, then you are willing to use tools to break the trigger lock.
  
  Also if there is a will there is a way.
  -Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar SUV attack. 9 Injured. We got lucky that no one was killed.
  
  -A few years previous to that a guy in California hit 10 people after a heart attack.
  
  - 100-year-old driver hits 11 near LA school” – Foxnews
  
  -Car hits crowd near Dutch queen’s bus – YouTube
  Apr 30, 2009 – Edit: 5 people were killed and 12 wounded. incident under investigation.
  
  -Isla Vista massacre
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 8:01pm
  Read this. This why honest people cannot have guns in australias. Because a person with an IQ under 70 was allowed to buy guns
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia)
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bryant
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 8:02pm
  Bloomberg shoots from the hip, when he opens his mouth
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers
  
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- AUsername
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 8:29pm
  why is that kibbutzist in the gop in the first place?
  
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- dwilco77
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 8:54pm
  Those who forget history, are doomed to repeat it. Hundreds of millions of people have been killed outright, or starved to death after the people have been disarmed over the last century. Read your history. Do not repeat it.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 9:00pm
  I shouldn’t have to remind posters here that Anders Behring Breivik, the mass murderer in Norway was a right wing kook who killed all those kids he perceived as liberals because he hated “multiculturalism,” mostly Muslims. And yes, Switzerland has low crime rates, just as all those other socialistic countries in Europe, most of whom have outlawed guns.
  
  The US on the other hand is the mostly heavily armed country on Earth per capita, and has the highest rate of gun violence, murder, mass murder and spree killings.
  
  The fantasy on the right is that the answer to gun violence is more guns. And more assault weapons, and larger clips that allow a person to fire 100 rounds in 30 seconds. Psychologists call that magical thinking: more guns means less gun violence. Lower taxes increase government revenue, cutting taxes for the rich benefits the poor. Black is white, up is down, war is peace, ignorance is strength.
  
  No wonder Republicans want to cut funding for public education. They want an uneducated population who can accept that helping their rich donors is the best way to help the poor, those without a voice. And if kids grow up believing that the Earth is 6000 years old, so much the better.
  
  Other countries are smarter than we are.
- dwilco77
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 9:34pm
  @ SENDTHEMETEORS
  
  You can make stuff up all day, as the left usually does, and the naive will swallow up what you say. Here is the stats , by Country of murder rates. I think you will see that the U.S. is one of the safer Countries in the world. I for one would be happy to pitch in for the price of a plane ticket for your vacation to Central America, so you might learn to appreciate where you live, and maybe even learn something about reality.
  
  http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita
  
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- dwilco77
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 9:36pm
  oh yea, and P.S. I think you should invite Mayor Bloomberg to go with you on your trip to Central America
  
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- YankeeDelta68
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 9:39pm
  Why do new york city voters keep putting this moron in office,then again the are the same that voted for for the king???
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 10:05pm
  Bloomberg, Sirota, Feinstein, Frank. All liberal progressives identified today as people who desire to steal out rights. All are Jewish. Where’s the problem?
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 10:08pm
  dwilco77, your source doesn’t say where the data comes from and it’s six years old in any case. Here is some more updated and sourced information for you:
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
  
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- mikem1969
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 10:45pm
  Hey bloomy, news flash, mass killings happen every single day in other countries. Let’s use one of the ones you guys on the left are in love with as an example, the middle east. They kill each other on a daily basis with guns, rockets, bombs, beheadings, beatings, stoning, and the list goes on. America is the only place that does not have the level of violence other countries have, and it is because of gun ownership. Gun ownership is also the only thing that stands in the way of the lefts agenda of mass enslavement.
  
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- kenboo1
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 10:52pm
  SendTheMeteors Looking at your data… Just think how many Mexicans might not have died had Obama and Fast and furious not taken place… How can it be that Mexico (total gun ban) has such a greater incidence of murder by gun than the United states??? Next, look at Japan (total gun ban) why is theirs so low??? In Mexico the ban is selectively enforced… In Japan, civil liberties are none existent, they can arrest you and if they want to, let you sit in the jail for years before you surface…
  
  Breivik, 33, detonated a fertilizer bomb outside a Netherlands government building that included the prime ministerial offices last July, killing eight, then gunned down 69 people, mostly teenagers, at the ruling Labor Party’s youth camp on Utoya island. Didn’t Bloomy say this stuff only happens in America?
  
  http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/138894094.html
  
  Why is it in states that have open carry and concealed carry, crime rates are falling?
  http://marquettetribune.org/2012/02/14/news/concealed-carry-prevents-more-crime-than-it-creates-study-says/
  
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- 83plus
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 11:52pm
  What about Norway, there was a terrible mass shooting there.
  
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- armyofnibiru
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 12:28am
  THEBLAZE, I thought you were better than the rest of the media,oops my bad.good by.
  
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- BravePatriot
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 12:33am
  They should ban knives in China because knives kill people, if the control freak, mikey gets his way.
  
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- dwilco77
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 1:05am
  @ SENDTHEMETEORS
  
  This an explanation of the sources for the data on Nation Master. Wikipedia is a compilation of annoymous sources adding anything they want. Give me a break. Try finding the truth when you search for data.
  
  Welcome to NationMaster, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease.
  
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- Minuteman1776
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:36am
  Only in the U.S.? Try telling that to genocide victims in Africa where entire villages are wiped out.
  
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- Rowgue
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:21am
  SPARKY
  
  The solution to this problem is to get back to treating mentally ill people like mentally ill people. It isn’t to try to hold other people accountable for another person’s actions. It is almost always somebody that is severely mentally ill that carry out these killing sprees. People that would be locked up in institutions if we really cared about stopping these senseless attacks.
  
  All mandating trigger locks would do is render guns useless for defensive purposes. You’d just be giving one more advantage to the criminals that couldn’t care any less about following laws to begin with. The reality is gun control laws only benefit the people that have no intention of following them.
  
  Besides beyond a reasonable registration/application requirement gun control laws are blatantly unconstitutional. Even the liberal leaning supreme court we’ve got now has been invalidating ridiculous gun control laws left and right because they so blatantly violate the constitution.
  
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- Rowgue
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 4:38am
  @SEND
  
  You called somebody out for not backing up their statements with sources, and then try to use a friggen wikipedia page to back up your argument? Asinine doesn’t even begin to express how ridiculous that is.
  
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- M4-A1
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 6:26am
  Guess Bloomberg had his head up is a$$ when the guy in Norway went onto the Island and killed 80 people with assault rifles..
  
  Liberals what a bunch of idiots.
  
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- thetruthseeker711
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 7:00am
  You are an idiot. I’ve used my sidearm twice to avoid a car jacking and a home invasion. I can just see some carjacker coming to me, as he did, and I say, “could you wait while I unlock my gun so I can defend myself?” or when the guy broke through my window….same thing. Both instances, I immediatly pointed my gun at their head and said, “move and you die.” It is quite affective, moron.
  
  Bloomberg is an idiot. Ever heard of NORWAY, Bllombutt?
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 7:58am
  And that would have helped in this situation, how? The original owner of the guns WAS DEAD when the shooting occured. And, “assault weapons?” You do realize he commited this massacre with HAND GUNS, right? So to connect any gun ban with this incident, you would have to ban Glocks and Sig Saurs, HAND GUNS. He left the assault rifle in the car.
  
  The only thing a gun ban would do is allow only criminals to have guns. Obama wants us all bringing a knife to a gun fight.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 7:59am
  ‘…mass shootings only happen in America…’
  is Bloomberg showing just how stupid he thinks Americans are. And he’s right: the majority will believe he is correct rather than do the mental gymnastics to recall the Norway camp shooting. Or, dare I go so far, as to mention South Africa, Benghazi, Mexico, Argentina… the list is nearly endless. And many of them in countries that are gun-free zones.
  And David Gregory? What more needs to be said about this lib-tard communist press member?
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 8:14am
  Remember I-Robot if Bloomberg wants to save people from themselves lock them all in their homes takle total care of them and don’t allow them to leave…..every.
  Fact is ten time as many people are killed by automobiles yearly. Maybe ban them as well.
  Or how about we quit blaming inanimate object for the actions of people…you don’t blame the fork for obesity,and you don’t blame the matches for arson…Do you?
  
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- chicago76
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:02am
  LTscrooge has it right. The best way to stop this stuff is to stop being a victim. Any hunter realizes it is much better to be the predator than the prey. Quit making children the prey, and the predators will not attack.
  
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- omgfolks
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:13am
  Mr Bloomberg your an idiot to beleive that Gun Control with stop this type of thing. First off the similarities between this shooting and the one in Colorado or anywhere else is the instability of the people involved. Lanza had some serous mental Issue, Metal health Professionals and his parents who SHOULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING BEFORE THIS HAPPENED he set out to kill. Another tradgy yet to unfild is how these so called professionals will avoid jail for their inability to do what was so obvioulsy needed long before that tragic day. GUNS DO NOT KILL, PEOPLE KILL. For those who are so afraid that will follow the TAKE THE GUNS AWAY NUTS simply out of fear you are doomed to live in fear forever should this happen, BECAUSE THEN YOU KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT THE ONLY ONES WITH GUNS WILL BE THE CRIMINALS. Learn to take action, learn to own a use a weapon, carry it with you to STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING AGAIN. What troubles me is the fact that People with capitalize on this to push for more gun control, will make millions spreading their FEAR MESSAGES to get guns out of the hands of Americans. WHY WAS THERE NO POLICE AT THIS SCHOOL PRESENT TO DISCOURAGE THIS TYPE OF THING? I think that if each school had officers there we would see far less if this type of thing. This is certainly horror story that has unfolded upon people who did not deserve this, it will take time for it to heal. But taking guns away is not the answer, Accountablity is, HOLD THOSE MENTAL HEATH A-holes accountable too.
  
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- Dr. Sandy Kramer
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 12:34pm
  Excuse me, Mr. Mayor – - – What about Norway 2011 massacre, et. al.? (Just goes to show you don’t have to be bright to be Jewish…)
  
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- sierraviews
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 2:09pm
  @valiant1776. Great post. Through the weekend, I have not been able to stop myself from imagining those terrified children in their last moments. But, thanks to you, I am reminded me an equally gruesome sight. Europe, 1939: The blurry gray photos of uniformed animals, lining up entire villages before the graves they were forced to dig – and the tumbling of families into the pit. Then there’s the one of the SS man with a gun pointed at a mother clutching her child seconds before a single bullet ended both their lives. Do I need to go on?
  
  We can outlaw guns, but never eradicate them. If the people do not have them, they tyrants will! Can we please switch the conversation to more fruitful debate, e.g., the mental stability of our culture!
  
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- Murph
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 3:28pm
  Hey Sparky! You’re a pinhead. How many people die in car accidents each year? Annually, there are more deaths caused by drunk driving than caused by firearms. The bad guys aren’t going to wait for you to fumble with your trigger lock. We don’t need any more laws that restrict the freedoms of the law abiding citizenry! And…using your same idiot logic, the mother of this maniac should be charged with murder. Oh wait….she’s graveyard dead! Try again pinhead!
  
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- Grey Eagle
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 9:37pm
  Bloomberg is delusional. Doesn’t he remember recent mass murder in England and another country fairly recently, where the guy killed a bunch of people he is currently on trial or just finished. This happens all over the world. Of course New York is such a shining example of anything.
  
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- paultard
  Posted on December 18, 2012 at 7:00am
  More Doomberg disinformation… First off, these mass murders are being staged by the government to create the anti gun outcry so we will DEMAND guns be taken away. It is a part of bankster Paul Warburg’s statement that we will have world government “By Consent”. These are coordinated attacks by the CIA. FBI, Hollywood and the media. The same thing happened in Australia. The Government & The Media successfully staged attacks like we are seeing here to disarm the people. They succeeded. Do your own homework…
  
  In China a man stabbed 22 kids to death at a Chinese Elementary school. Quick, Mayor Doomberg… Ban all knives at Chinese restaurants in NYC!! What a d**khead..
  http://www.voanews.com/content/man-stabs-22-children-at-chinese-elementary-school/1564820.html
  
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grimmster
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:15pm
Hmmmmmm, hey doomberg,”mass shootings only happen in America”? Really? I seem to remember Cambodia, and something about “the killing fields”,but maybe i’m worng, even though i grew up in that time period. I tell you what mayor,how about you disarm your security detail, your cities and state police force, then and only then will i even entertain a notion of giving up my guns.And by the way dipsh!t, what exactly is an assault weapon, other than a term made up by a liberal, who’s name i forget, and who has been wiped from any info out there on the term “assault weapon”,especially wikipedia.But go ahead boobberg, keep pushing,there will come a time when we the people,push back……

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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:00pm
  Doomberg also forgot to mention that fact that Clinton’s ban didn’t case a rise or decline in crime! They have no facts to support their assertions.
  
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- 702TruthSeeker
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:47pm
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks
  
  what an idiot
  
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- Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:57pm
  Sadly some children and people end up dieing. My right to bear arms is not responsible. Those who die, die from lack of morals in America. Families, work, and schools have taken God out of life. The result is killing the innocent. The second amendment is not responsible. Where was God in this school? Where was the protection of the innocent? Why were the teachers and administration not carrying protection? Why did the parents send their children to a Godless school? Why did God allow this to happen in this Godless school?
  
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- valiant1776
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:25pm
  @Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washingt The secular humanists have taken over local matters, they have taken away our right to govern ourselves. Ten of the twenty children attended a nearby perish, and the other children attended other nearby churches. Why shouldn’t the parents and residents of that town exercise their right to educate their own children, and govern their own local affairs? Why should a politician 600 miles away be able to pass a nationwide law to control a town he’s never been to, and a people he’s never met? Local schools need to be governed by local residents and the children’s parents again.
  
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- goahead.makemyday
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 11:34am
  PROSECUTE
  Kids in schools and most of the teachers think “protection” is having your personal Trojan in your wallet.
  
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ginger100
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:15pm
In China and North Korea only the govt are allowed to have guns and they control there population thru fear of the govt

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:17pm
  Absolutely. So clear, but the deceivers will ignore fact and reason.
  
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- topperj
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:23pm
  In China, the weapon of choice is the knife. I guess they better start a campaign to ban knives in China. Or maybe improve living conditions so people aren’t warped shells of human beings under Chinese control.
  
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- johnpaulkuchtajr
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:27pm
  Oh Bloomie,
  
  I know that you’ve been so busy not giving aid to the folks on Staten Island that you just “forgot” about the massacre in Norway last year.
  
  But, you are so ready to try to enslave Americans by taking away their guns that your mouth tends to run about 5 yards ahead of your brain.
  
  “Remember Benghazi and ALL the Traitors!”
  
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- Silversmith
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:46pm
  I have to say it again – It’s not the tools we use — It’s who we are becoming that should be discussed.
  
  Silversmith
  
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- LB
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:03pm
  Ban knives too, I believe on the same day in a chineese school a man slashed 22 children
  
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- Xiccarph
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:12pm
  China is having a run on mass attacks at schools by crazies using edged weapons. I havn’t seen yet that China’s politicians are crying for “assault knife” bans. We are the only country that mass has killings with guns?? Really? Go tell that to the Norwegians. Israel had school killings before…uh…uh…before they let (encouraged) school staff carry weapons. None since. Sounds like a solution to me…
  
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- Excomunicatedmarine
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:28pm
  I have more fear of that then most other scenarios……especially with the likes of Bloomers in power.
  Guys like Stalin and hitler and Cambodia Pol, African totalitarians seem to have slipped his mind. What a power mad despot can do to an unarmed populace makes Columbine and Conn. Look tame.
  I’m sure that those wonderful and loving staff and teachers wo uld have liked to have had real armed security rather than the joke they had. Rather than make political hay why doesn’t Panties spring a few buck to actually protect the children ? Too expensive ?
  
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- moonlight on the bay
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 9:50pm
  That’s why in China, schoolchildren have been the victims of STABBINGS with knives. One incident just this week. I guess Bloomberg would push for a ban on knives in those cases. It isn’t the gun or whatever weapon is used. It is the mental status of the attacker.
  
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Larry E
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:14pm
I guess that little MIkey’s never heard of Norway or the mass murder that took place there? He doesn’t want anyone to have ANY guns, except for his precious PD, and his well armed bodyguards. I wonder how he’d like to be without his bodyguards? Not very much I’m sure, but then we have to remember that he’s important. Or at least he thinks he is.

The rocket scientists like Bloomberg, Schumer, et al never stop to think that these mass murders all occur in “gun free zones” where the average citizen is prohibited from carrying a firearm, but which makes absolutely no difference to someone intent on murder and mayhem. The idea that ONLY the police and military are capable of defending themselves or anyone else is drummed into so many people’s heads that the idea of self defense never enters their minds.

Ban gun free zones instead of banning guns, and the problem will be greatly reduced.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:19pm
  ” Bloomberg, Schumer”
  
  Coincidence that both are progressive and Jewish. When does the obvious become obvious?
  
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- Taquoshi
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:51pm
  He’s kidding, right? Somebody, please tell me he’s kidding!
  
  2012 – Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse, France – 4 dead.
  
  2009 – Winnenden school – Winnenden, Germany – 16 dead including perp.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnenden_school_shooting
  
  2009 – Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting, Baku, Azerbaijan. 12 dead plus perp.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan_State_Oil_Academy_shooting
  
  2008 – Mercaz HaRav shooting – Jerusalem, Israel – 8 dead plus perp.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercaz_HaRav_massacre
  
  2007 – Jokela High School in Jokela, Tuusula, Finland – 8 dead plus perp.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokela_school_shooting
  
  2004 – Beslan School Hostage Crisis – estimated to be 385 dead, including 186 children.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis
  
  1996 – Dunblane School Massacre – Dunblane, Scotland – 18 dead, including the perp.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre
  
  1974 – Ma’alot massacre – Ma’alot, Israel – 31 dead plus 3 attackers.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%27alot_massacre
  
  There’s more, but it’s too darn depressing to go on. Doesn’t Mayor Bloomberg read the newspapers? It’s about time he started so he won’t make such ridiculous statements.
  
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- E.Z. Las Vegas
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:07pm
  Taquoshi:
  
  I think we need to add Mumbai, India, and the Norwegian summer camp. I also seem to remember a movie theater in Soviet Georgia, where most of the hostages died of gas that was used by the governement to stop the attack, but several had been shot dead first.
  
  I think we can also add the Munich Olympics.
  
  Now, perhaps Bloomberg would be happier living in peaceful China, where on Wednesday, a man with a samurai sword hacked 22 school children in the latest of a major series of such attacks?
  
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- grayling646
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:19pm
  @tac and ez
  What are the odds that he knows these things but told a deliberate lie to push his hidden agenda which is to take all of our guns?
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:14pm
The trouble with mass shooters is they seldom shoot the right people.

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- Marine25
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 6:48pm
  You suggested earlier that deranged, suicidal gunmen be directed to the Capitol. Now you say the shooting would have been fine had the targets be ‘the right ones’.
  You are not funny. You are certainly no patriot. Most Americans would knock your teeth out if you had the audacity to say your crap in public, face-to-face. Try it. Go to your local PTA meeting, or townhall, or city commission meeting, tell them you want suicidal killers directed to the Capitol Building, or shown where the ‘right targets’ live. Your beating might even make headlines here at the blaze.
  
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grayling646
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:14pm
How can Mayor Bloomberg support the 2nd Amendment and the right to bear arms and yet advocate for gun control? How do you pass a gun control law without violating the Constitution?

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txn4justice
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:12pm
Apparently the Mayor has never visited the middle east. No more “Big Gulps” for you! Jewish N@ z is. Who would have thunk it?

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OlefromMN
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:10pm
“Because Mass Shootings ‘Only Happen in America’”

Didn’t the guy that shot up an island in Scandinavia just have another hearing recently? Bloomberg an enigma to me, he has earned billions without having one living brain cell.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:16pm
  Like Soros, Bloomberg is Jewish. You had better to begin to understand that these eastern European immigrants brought their Marx, Alinsky, Piven, Bloom, Berwick, Axelrod, Emanuel… communism with them.
  
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- 000degrees
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:18pm
  Mass Idiots popping off at the suck is what we have in America…….among other places….
  
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- txn4justice
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:20pm
  Funny
  
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- OlefromMN
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:37pm
  @ The JERK,
  
  Not sure what Bloomberg being Jewish has do do with anything. But feel free to carry on with your antisemitism.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 8:26pm
  Don’t mind Jihad Jerk, same crap different story. Sort of surprised that he isn’t insinuating a Jewish tie to the shooter. Must have been Jewish ammo.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:10pm
Just another liberal LIE. Bloomberg is an idiot, and an enemy of America.

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- chips1
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:12pm
  The “TEA PARTY” is keeping notes. We don’t forget. The liberal nuts think we are disbanded. Another mistake they have made. Hope Americans are ready for a return to the Constitution.
  
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TROLLMONGER
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:09pm
Good job Mr Mayor!

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- Mudd
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 8:28pm
  Your both idiots.
  
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squirrley4
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:08pm
There are no guns allowed in Mexico but yet there mass killing there all the time.

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- KidCharlemagne
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:15pm
  Access to both guns and drugs in Mexico is highly restricted…….
  
  But yet Mexico has PLENTY of both…..
  
  How’s that for some irony?
  
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- Obamalarky
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:22pm
  When you have the US govt being a large supplier via the corrupt Mexican police, what can go wrong? I guess Eric Holders botched gun-running scheme helped raise the body count as well.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:53pm
  Lets exchange the Marine in jail in Mexico for Obama? Of coarse we would have to throw in tickets to Sea World just to make it even.
  
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- Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:59pm
  Exactly. If the Mexican people had guns, there would be law, order, and alot less violence.
  
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badomni
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:08pm
It’s time to change the narrative and quit being so nice. Anyone for gun control is explicitly to blame for mass shootings. When these things happen and you immediately bring this up I will accuse you of ignoring the real issue of a sick culture and things we can do to remedy it. When you take the conversation into never never land of more gun control you make dialogue impossible for real solutions. When I go to work on monday and someone brings this up, they better be prepared for a verbal offensive.

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- grimmster
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:18pm
  Go get Badomni.I too am sick of the left evading the real issue.They so want to take total control of this nation,but alas for them,there are those of us, who wont let that happen…..
  
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- Lt_Scrounge
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:08pm
  Someone needs to start asking the lefties what would’ve happened if a couple of the teachers had been armed and taken the fight to the shooter instead of hiding in closets? A couple of well placed hollow points work wonders for stopping criminals from continuing in their criminal enterprises.
  
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normbal
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:07pm
Lying? Delusional? One-sided media bias? Ignorant? All the above?

Per capita, Germany has had more mass-shootings than America, and it takes a year to GET a gun license there.

Listen to the John Lott interview by Mark Levin from 12-14-12 here: (starts around 56:00 minute mark) and PASS IT ALONG TO YOUR FRIENDS

http://rope.zmle.fimc.net/player/player.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpodloc.andomedia.com%2FdloadTrack.mp3%3Fprm%3D2069xhttp%3A%2F%2Fpodfuse-dl.andomedia.com%2F800185%2Fpodfuse-origin.andomedia.com%2Fcitadel_origin%2Fpods%2Fmarklevin%2FLevin12142012.mp3

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biohazard23
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:06pm
Yeah, because Chechen rebels clearly thought that Beslan was in the US. What a f-ing idiot.

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- momrules
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:16pm
  The libs forget events like Beslan. They should realize by now that most conservatives always remember.
  
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- bava
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:41pm
  No. Google remembered it for you after you typed in ‘mass shootings around the world.’ Imbecile.
  
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- momrules
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:46pm
  BAVA………We don’t need Google but apparently you did. Bless your little heart. You had never heard of Beslan had you? Maybe you were still in grammer school when that horror happened.
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:50pm
  MomRules, you got THAT right. Libs never want to be reminded of things like that because it doesn’t fit their narrative. Can’t go bothering them with facts or anything pesky like that. :)
  
  BTW, why are they just sooo upset about guns? Don’t they realize that nearly everything on this planet can be used to kill if someone puts his mind to it? I mean, more people are killed by cars but you don’t hear the liberal whiners screaming to ban Priuses. I swear, you just can’t argue with a lib because you can’t reason with their fragile emotions. And if you make the attempt, they just shout you down and call you names. You will get no rational argument from them, just taunts, name-calling, and a bunch of bluster. Pitiful yet completely predictable.
  
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- rollthebones
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 7:13am
  @ BAVA
  You make a good point. However, it does not matter how it was remembered.
  The point is that doing a simple search of the internet and Mayor Bloomberg’s ‘only happens in America’ is proven wrong.
  
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- goahead.makemyday
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 11:41am
  BIO It’s because with guns we would be on the same playing field if they tried an armed takeover of the country.
  
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Grannie4news
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:06pm
Exactly, tell that story to the people of Norway who suffered an even larger massacre. Does anyone know the statistics of the number of stabbings in the USA compared to the number of Gun murders? How many die in car wrecks a year? Beaten to death with heavy objects, such as bats, etc? Get real criminals will always have guns and really they are not that hard to make yourself. My heart goes out for these families but the biggest curb to stop these things from happening is to bring back the way families were supposed to be such as loving and caring, having meals together, being able to discipline your children. Parents need to get involved in what their children are reading, watching and learning at school. I was a regular pain in the arse to teachers when my kids were in school. Also we need more mental health facilities to house people like this guy..

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1WhoQuestions
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:05pm
It is amazing how everyone says our Founding Fathers wouldn’t have allowed assault rifles in the second amendment. Assault rifles are the problem. Magazine capacity on a weapon is the problem. Ammo is the problem. Semi-automatic weapons are the problem, as if a 6-shooter would be okay.

The problem is never the weapon which was used. It is always the person behind the trigger.

Someday someone will have to explain to me the difference between lining people up in a row and killing them with a single bullet vs using an AK-47 to do the same job.

How many mass killings are done world-wide and a gun is never used? A suicide bomber never uses a gun.

Politicians would do well to remember that. The gun is never the problem. It is only the person and their intentions which are.

Let Freedom Ring!!!

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:14pm
  Hutu/Tutsi genocide used the machete. Outlaw machete?
  
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Daddy Hawg
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:04pm
Enforce the laws on the books and don’t let the BATFE sell firearms at all!

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stopprintn
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:04pm
Political morons like Doomberg are the number one reason I will never give up my Right to Bear.

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dosdelgados
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:02pm
…every man, woman, and child…

Can you please explain to me, Mr. Mayor, what law permits children to purchase firearms?

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stoptyranny
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:01pm
This from someone who doesn’t think you are smart enough to make your own decision on a soda. Does anyone else see the trend here? Bloomberg, you give up your armed security first. It’s always the same rich liberal morons that have armed security (or police) to protect themselves and their families but tell you that you are not good enough to protect the life of your family.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:04pm
  Another Jewish control freak. Far too many of these progressives.
  
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- wvernon1981
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:10pm
  It’s not a matter of being smart enough to buy a soda but rather being capable of overriding evolutionarily hard coded instincts to consume calorie dense foods.
  
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- INTOODEEP
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:15pm
  Here is a guy who has 15 armed bodyguards protecting him and his family 24-7 in a secure video monitored compound and he wants you to give up your rights to arm yourself. What a hypocrite…!!!
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:51pm
  In other words, people are animals that must be corralled, right, wyvern?
  
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Sr Newk
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:01pm
What this nation needs more of is, Jesus! Banning guns of all types isn’t going to do anything,.but help the mindless killers. The highest kill rates by weapons guns, knives, and machetes is due to gun control where conceal carry is not allowed. Just check the stats on the web, and you will find Chicago city, New York, city and others who do not allow conceal carry have high crime rates. Morality is becoming a thing of the past and killing to often seems to be the answer to every nut cake’s trouble.

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- saranda
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:50pm
  That would make Texas and Florida the safest states, and heaven knows that isn’t true by any standard.
  
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- ares338
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:30pm
  SARANDA….hey you dumbass! I’ve been to NYC and live in Texas. Texas is much safer. No one is guaranteed safety anywhere but you can cut your losses by NOT living in NY.
  
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Zoe
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:00pm
From 7-10th grade when I went to school & once to summer camp.

We had a complete armory of weapons.

No Problems there- Get it!

& stop glorifying these no name bastards that commit the crimes- This is the Pay Dirt they wanted!

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dosdelgados
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:00pm
This from the man who wants mothers formula-feeding their babies to feel like criminals.

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skippy6
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:55pm
Is Norway in America??? What an idiot!!! Put your foot in your mouth again dumberg

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- Just in time
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:59pm
  My thoughts exactly.
  
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- Texaslockstar
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:07pm
  I was thinking the same thing. Didn’t the huy there shoot over 70? What about all the mass killings in South America and Africa ? This guy has no clue whats really going on in the world. Maybe he should worry about something he can controle , like more food bans.
  
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- Stu D. Baker-Hawk
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:11pm
  Yeah, that massacre in Norway immediately came to mind as soon as I read Blooming-idiot-berg’s short-sighted comment. Why is it that all liberals are LAZY on issues like this and refuse to actually dig to find the root cause of gun violence is? And let me tell you, it AIN’T the availability of ‘assault’ weapons that’s the problem, it’s EVIL people who think they can find themselves easy, UNARMED targets. Do you think a shooting like this would be attempted in a police station? And DO NOT cite the massacre by that Muslim monster who posed as an Army major; Army posts DO NOT allow weapons, open-carry or otherwise, by non-security personnel.
  
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- patriotteapress
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:19pm
  Yeah, mass shootings have happen in pretty much every country but the truth need not stand in the way of Nanny Doomberg and his agenda. You have to understand that arrogant Doomberg believes the little people need to be ruled by the elite like him. He thinks he’s God’s gift to NYC. He would like to be dictator in chief of Amerika. Then he could tell everyone in the world what to do.
  
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oldguy49
Posted on December 16, 2012 at 2:54pm
nudge

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- UNALIEN
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:01pm
  wink wink
  
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- macpappy
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:06pm
  Yep, they got all the tools, now. Only a matter of time.
  
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- momrules
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 3:08pm
  I think they are through nudging. I have a feeling they are going straight into shove mode.
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 4:20pm
  If its not a nudge, they will exploit this to the fullest if they see gain for their agenda.
  
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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 5:15pm
  Speaking of Nudge, how come we haven’t heard from Ted Nugent in the last couple of days? Nudge! oh, Nu-u-udge! Where are you? We seek your sagacity on the matter of guns and gun control and gun rights. Why have you left us forlorn and without counsel in this dire hour?
  
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- macpappy
  Posted on December 16, 2012 at 6:49pm
  Lloyd Drako
  All conservative pundits have been shut down. Take a look, it will become obvious.
  Dennis Miller is even in trouble at Fox, been told to tone it down.
  
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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on December 17, 2012 at 10:46am
  Nugent is not a pundit. He’s not owned by Fox or anyone else. He has his own independent outlets. My guess is that he’s finally developed a sense of shame.
  
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