Mayor Bloomberg Makes His Point Abundantly Clear: ‘Bottom Line Is There’s Too Many Guns’
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg seemed to tip his hand in a Thursday morning interview with CBS: In his mind, it’s not just about how people may use guns and stopping criminals from getting guns, it’s that there’s just too many guns in this country.
“The bottom line is there’s too many guns,” he told CBS “This Morning’s” Charlie Rose. In fact, Bloomberg earlier noted that it’s no longer about how one might use a gun on someone else, but that the problem extends to people using firearms to take their own life.
“Keep in mind, there are 33 people killed with handguns each day, and more people die from suicide with handguns than even get killed,” he said, raising his finger for emphasis.
Bloomberg also called the NRA’s recent ad “dumb PR” and said “you really have to be stupid to do that.” The ad called out officials who send their children to schools with armed guards but have opposed the NRA’s call to do so across the country.
Fellow CBS host Nora O’Donnell then threw him a softball as he piled on the organization: “Does the NRA represent gun owners or gun manufacturers?”
Not surprisingly, the mayor chose the latter. Watch it all below:
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NicholasDL
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:39amThe day after the announcement, the people submit.
Over twenty executive orders will be signed, the people submit.
The government will employ technology over the citizenry that no State in the past has dreamt, the people submit.
The servants of the State, the police and the military, will be permitted arms denied the people, the people submit.
Physicians are turned against their patients as messengers to the State, the people submit.
The 2nd most important amendment is violated and no one acts but rather complains, acquiesces and submits.
To rebel and resist as a civilian citizenry against the government are not the aspirations of the insane; rather each is a Constitutional Right promoted and practiced by the Founders.
But if you submit, you do not deserve to be enslaved, you need to be enslaved.
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youngblood1
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:47amto my knowledge the bill of rights were not written in order of importance. Each one is as equally as important than the other.
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:50amUm, where have I or anybody submitted? What are you expecting precisely Nicholsdl?
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Nightfox
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:53amYOUNGBLOOD1, I think they where written that way for a reason. They are all important, but you can not have any freedoms with out away to back that up and Firearms is that very force to back that up. 2nd amendment gives the public teeth vs oppression. As well as home defense.
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oldguy49
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:02amdrinks are too big……cars use too much gas…..coal is too dirty…to many guns………..to many people……………………where does it stop ???
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RANGER1965
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:10amApparently you need to include yourself in the diatribe about pansy bootlicking Americans, because I haven’t heard of you starting an armed rebellion anywhere.
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old white guy
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:11amthe bottom line is …..there are too many power hungry idiot politicans.
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Live_Free_orDie
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:12amIs NYPD in violation of the NYS law banning more than 7 rounds in a magazine (or as those A holes call it “clips”). There is no LEO exemption that I can find.
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stage9
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:23amβBottom Line Is Thereβs Too Many Gunsβ
NO! THE PROBLEM IS THERE ARE TOO MANY LIBERALS!
OUTLAW LIBERALISM!!
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turkey13
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:41amDid Bloomie include the guns his 4 body guards carry? This man only wants the police and the thugs & Gangs have.He is against local schools having a armed guard to protect the little peoples kids. He approves the private schools having armed bodyguards in the class rooms. These kids will be the future politicvians and CEO’S of the fortune 500 companies. If some nut wipes out kids at the local schools it won’t be a big deal since these are the future factory workers and there are to many of them already.
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rp454
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:58amWow. Glad nanny bloomberg is there to keep us all safe with infinite wisdom. What did we ever do before we could find solace under his wings.
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Silvertruth
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:00amBottom line, people allow themselves to be ruled by fear.
Bottom line, people that govern by fear win in the short term but lose in the long (Ask Hitler, Hussein, and Khadafi).
Bottom line, guns are tools and should never be feared when in the hands of law abiding citizens. Restricting them from those same citizens makes us less safe, not more.
Bottom line, do not surrender your freedoms, we have lost too many already.
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BODYBAG
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:18pmThis is the guy who changed the law after deciding 2 terms werent enough in office.
Can someone clarify why if intellectual elitist Progs are so much smarter and superior
to the rest of us, why they need to have every aspect of their lives dictated to
them?
I raise my one gallon jug of slurpee in a toast to this pigs forced removal from office.
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WarMunger_Al
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:35pmBottom line is there are too many liberals. Time to start banning demoncrats.
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michaelmoron
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:46pmI don’t give a cr@p what this clown thinks. He is just a Mayor of a city. An Indentured PUBLIC SERVANT. A public TRUSTEE. He can NOT order me to dance, sing or anything else.
The Only way this lowly TRUSTEE has any Authority over me is if I damage another BENEFICIARY
in his City (jurisdiction).
I WILL CARRY A GUN IN YOUR CITY WITHOUT A PERMIT OR REGISTRATION PAPERS !!!!
VIOLATE MY 2nd AMENDMENT RIGHT, and I WILL SEE your BOZO @$$ in COURT, BLOOMING IDIOT !!!!!
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michaelmoron
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:54pmWhy would anyone outside of NYC give a cr@p what a monkey thinks?
Why would anyone in NYC that has had a loved one murdered, injured or raped in his Jurisdiction,
NOT be SUING HIS @$$ OFF ??????
HE MANDATED THAT YOUR LOVED ONE COULD NOT DEFEND THEMSELF !!!!!
HE TOOK an OATH to UPHOLD the CONSTITUTION and VIOLATED HIS OATH RESULTING IN YOUR LOVED ONE’S DEATH !!!!!
PEOPLE, GET A BACKBONE !!!!
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michaelmoron
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:01pmBLOOMING IDIOT says 33 People killed in America by guns everyday.
He leaves out the PART that 75% (24.5 of the 33) are “GANG BANGERS” and 4% (1.32 of the 33)are LAWFUL GUN OWNERS.
Bloomberg forgot to tell you that 21 innocent childred were slaughtered by our “government” in WACO.
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chicago76
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 2:28pmI think you have it wrong. We submit to nothing. We will let the system work until it becomes very obvious that it does not work, either by another Waco or by an attempt at confiscation or forced registration. Wars are too terrible to go into angry. They should be waged coldly and with forethought and preferably with God on our side. Be patient, communists have no patience. They will start it when they think they have all the marbles. Be ready, be prepared. This is a time of preparation.
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Trigus
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 1:47amONE Question: Who will arrest all law enforcement officers in New York for violating New York’s new gun control? There is no provision to exempt Law Enforcement in the State of New York. I would think all Law Enforcement Agencies are now disarming their employees until each department can abide by the new State Law.
Also, old bloomy must give up his armed security detail.
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poorrichard09
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:38amThe real problem is there are far too many would-be tyrants in places of power who want punish honest citizens instead of going after criminals, which is hard, messy work.
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iampraying4u
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 4:14pmHe wont be saying that when the commies take over
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Redhawke
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:37amAzzberg doesn’t have a clue about who the NRA represents. I am ok with them representing both gun owners and gun manufacturers. Either one that they represent will be a benefit to the other.
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Redhawke
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:41amIt is not possible to have too many guns. It is very possible to have too few.
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youngblood1
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:37amJust because you cannot control your constituents doesnt mean you can take it out on the rest of us.
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lilmjomac
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:21amYES, and I believe his statistics are off, as is he!
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IndyGuy
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:36amBottom line is….There’s too many Communists running America….Time to weed ‘em out…
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000degrees
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:36amCite all the polls you wish. Claim you know what is best for hunting. Talk to the point of how many rounds are legal for home defense, in your mindβ¦.. None of this truly matters although I understand how o can get people riled up.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Thanks for playing, here are your parting giftsβ¦..
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ferggie
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:29amI am sick of hearing the left run off at the mouth that we as gun holders do not need an AR. They feel we can protect ourselves and hunt with other types of guns so it is perfectly legal to outlaw AR’s. The left continues to state that nothing in the constitution says we have the right to these types of guns or magazine sizes so by omission they can outlaw them. Let me say I do not own an AR but believe it is my right to own one if I so choose.
I guess if that is there basis for the constitutionality of gun bans then I assume they are in favor of outlawing any and all violent video games and movies. The same material can and often is available in books so there is no need to have it in video and movies correct? I would guess the same holds for the 1st amendment as does with the 2nd with regard to the constitutionality of this. I see nowhere in the constitution the right to violent movies or videos and since the same material can be printed in books it would not be obstructing the freedom of speech or am I wrong. The left had better be careful when they attempt to destroy the 2nd amendment because without it there will be no 1st.
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Joss
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:26amUsing the governments logic, the 7 round rule should apply to the military and all agents of the government who use guns. That would be fair and fairness is, after all, the word our government uses more than any other. If the government is fair, there is little chance of insurrection — a MAD sort of deterrent.
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DougHuffman
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:28amToo many guns for what, Doomberg? Only when there are too many guns to resist your tyrannical conspiracy of ignorance might that be true.
Until then, MOLON LABE Doomberg and Obama Oedipus Rex, “mother marriers.”
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YOURSENSEI
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:56amThis is what you must know:
MOLTEN LABIA
It is so.
M13
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 4:59pmSenseless, Molton Labia? Why would you disfigure yourself like that? You should see a doctor. Maybe he can help you with that.
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Abraham Young
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:28amThey always claim more power than they legitimately have. “THe country wants change”.
This is a lie. The power comes from the bottom up, not the top down. So to deceive us they claim they have a mandate from “the country”.
Here’s the change we WANT: Less power grabbing megalomaniacs in our leadership, more power to the grassroots individuals. More power, more guns, to the people, to DEFEND ourselves from the power grabbing whoremongering warmongers in our leadership.
We are a SELF-governing nation, we are ADULTS here, not babies that have to be coddled or nurtured by the likes of Obama and Bloomberg.
And furthermore, we want the FACTS of the shootings, not the EMOTIONS of those who BENEFIT POLITICALLY by EXPLOITING massacres.
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chicago76
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 2:17pmIt doesn’t matter whether the majority want to take away all of our gun rights. The second amendment was created to stop just the kind of demagoguery that Bloomberg is doing. Yes the majority may be on his side, but the majority was also on the side of slave holders who banded guns from slaves. Today the working man and woman are the slaves. They know it. That is why they want to take our guns away.
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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:27amThe biggest frauds and elites live in and travel to NY. The bankers and the UN and actors and union bosses. They are all Leftists and the rich elites. They are all more important than the average citizen the ones who serve the elites. Soon they will be able to do without common citizens. The elites will have robots to do their bidding – who needs citizens or a Constitution any more?
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WillG
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:25amHow is it that complete Morons become so wealthy? I guess it is proof positive God loves idiots. There is not enough Guns and citizens proficient in their knowledge and use of them. Get them while you can people! Learn how to use them properly!
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youngblood1
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:32ambecause he oppresses his opposition through laws.
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00100111
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:22amβKeep in mind, there are 33 people killed with handguns each day, (Most of them gangbangers and criminals) and more people die from suicide with handguns than even get killed (those people would die anyway by other means, suicides tend to find another way),β he said, raising his finger for emphasis
The problem is govt busy bodies who try to control us for our own good because it satiates their conscience. Going after the tool a criminal uses does not stop the criminal, he simply picks another tools. You don’t punish good people for what bad people do, you continue to let good people defend themselves from the bad people.
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GuruMeditation
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:21amNo. Rather we have too many authoritarian tyrants in places of power and naturally they don’t like guns unless they are their own. Dry up Bloomberg!
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Xiccarph
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:21amBotton line is, you are a moron and petty dictator
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Dirtdigger67
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:48am@x blowberg and his communist cronies just want guns what the hell is wrong with people in New York
You elected these dopes !!! Not meaning you x but I’m a ex New Yorker got out long ago thank god!!
7 rounds where the hell did they get that ? You got 10 round mags no 7 so let me get this right say you don’t count right and put in 8 or 9 you are a criminal!! Wow but then on the other hand you go kill 20 people and have 10 or 20 rounds in your mag what happens? You kill your self like sandy hook or you get caught like the aroura shooter you get a extra charge oh wow now that is something for all criminals to think about huh? This is no more than a gun grab make no mistake about it we have no rights left. Just the beginning folks . Only thing to do is move New York is taxed and regulated to death with no end in sight
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Blitz
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:14amI’m almost at a loss for words when this little man speaks. Talk about a messiah complex, what time does he hold confessions?
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fastgen1
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:10amNew York City deserves what it gets, won’t be too much longer when all of the owners of company’s in NYC move out and New York City will look like Detroit, Ooooooo fun. Tax tax tax bloomberg will move to Miami, and start trouble there. Everyone’s talking about moving out, just another nail in the coffin….
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Abraham Young
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:13amBottom line is:
There’s too many Mayor Bloombergs!!!!
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StormRider
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:13amI saw Bloomberg in Revenge of the Fallen “Short people are mean,tell him he’s tall.”
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justangry
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:13amHow old is he? I mean is there any chance this commie will be taking a dirt nap soon?
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Dirtdigger67
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 11:10amNow that is very tempting
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eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:12amBloomberg needs to find another country to live in.
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The_Woofster
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 12:21pmHe’s in the process of creating it.
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dublinthewagons
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:10amWell good morning. Now everybody get back on the obama tour bus. Today we will take another sight seeing trip of the road to hell. What will the madness be today?
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Mil-Dot
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:10amThis Bloomberg goon actually said that he” likes being Mayor of New York, I have my own Army” (the police). The guy is a megalomaniac. Too many guns? For us peasants, yeah, but not protecting him and his family.
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:14amHe honestly truly is a mini-dictator. One doesn’t have to be on the Right to see this, Bloomberg is an absolute nut job with a huge desire to control everything about everybody. How any sane person, of any political belief, could vote for this man is beyond me, he’s a clear and present danger to all liberty.
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dublinthewagons
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:22amBloomers burg is living in a world of false security. When a dictatorship is set up. How many of the ones that start it live to see the final chapter. The big dogs kill and eat the little dogs, because they have reached the end of usefullness.
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love the kids
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:08amObummer says that there are too amny 1% ers, I think in this case, I agree with him
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Abraham Young
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:23amThat’s just idiotic, frankly. By definition, there will always be 1 percent of any object, person, or group.
We WANT more wealth, not less. The mindless idiots who think wealth is transferred rather than generated don’t understand simple economic laws; they are Keynesian collectivists who don’t have a clue.
Society is a natural order regulated by natural economic laws. Central planners think they can improve upon the natural order but that is only deception. They can only eliminate the ability of individuals to choose for themselves their own economic goods. Since central planning cannot possibly improve the situation for the entire group, they misallocate economic power from the many for the benefit of the few. You can’t get more energy from a closed system. This is why communism must continually expand its reach or die.
In an unhampered market however, individuals exchange goods with one another benefitting both sides of every transaction, helping each other to grow economically. The exchange of money for goods and services ensure that both parties to a transaction benefit, if they did not then the exchange wouldn’t take place.
In government central planning, very often one side of the exchange will lose ground while the other side reaps the “benefits” of plundering. Central planning is plundering. Unhampered market is far more prosperous and not plunderous.
Capiche?
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Gonzo
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:08am“more people die from suicide with handguns than even get killed,β What do you want to bet that he also supports assisted suicide? Just not with a gun.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:35amGONZO, Of course he supports assisted suicide. But, only if it is a procedure through a duly city licensed organization that can be taxed.
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SquidVetOhio
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:07amIs this man the most despicable low-life you have ever seen? Just looking at him makes me want to punch something. And I don’t feel that way about very many people.
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 9:05amI say this – we have too many communists such as Bloomburg and Reid and Pelosi and Obama.
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Dirtdigger67
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:50amI second that snow
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Pontiaku
Posted on January 17, 2013 at 1:45pmWhen politicians say “there are too many guns” that is usually a sign that there are not enough guns for what’s coming.
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