Thread: Mayors Against Illegal Guns Pushes For More Gun Control Just Hours After Shooting

Mayors Against Illegal Guns Pushes For More Gun Control Just Hours After Shooting
Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall
Dec 14, 2012 04:48 PM EST

Mayors Against Illegal Guns, headed by shameless politicians like Michael Bloomberg and Rahm Emanuel, have already released a statement calling for gun control legislation in Washington D.C.

Co-Chair Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg:

With all the carnage from gun violence in our country, it’s still almost impossible to believe that a mass shooting in a kindergarten class could happen. It has come to that. Not even kindergarteners learning their A,B,Cs are safe. We heard after Columbine that it was too soon to talk about gun laws. We heard it after Virginia Tech. After Tucson and Aurora and Oak Creek. And now we are hearing it again. For every day we wait, 34 more people are murdered with guns. Today, many of them were five-year olds. President Obama rightly sent his heartfelt condolences to the families in Newtown. But the country needs him to send a bill to Congress to fix this problem. Calling for ‘meaningful action’ is not enough. We need immediate action. We have heard all the rhetoric before. What we have not seen is leadership – not from the White House and not from Congress. That must end today. This is a national tragedy and it demands a national response. My deepest sympathies are with the families of all those affected, and my determination to stop this madness is stronger than ever.”

Co-Cahir Boston Mayor Thomas Menino:

“As a parent and grandparent, I am overcome with both grief and outrage by the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. This unspeakable act of violence will forever imprint this day in our hearts and minds. My heart goes out to the families impacted by this senseless tragedy and the many others we have recently witnessed across the United States. As a Mayor who has witnessed too many lives forever altered by gun violence, it is my responsibility to fight for action. Today’s tragedy reminds us that now is the time for action. Innocent children will now never attend a prom, never play in a big game, never step foot on a college campus. Now is the time for a national policy on guns that takes the loopholes out of the laws, the automatic weapons out of our neighborhoods and the tragedies like today out of our future.”

I'm going to have some class and avoid this political fight today, but it's important to show what Bloomberg is saying and now pushing for in the wake of tragedy.

Mayors Against Illegal Guns Pushes For More Gun Control Just Hours After Shooting - Katie Pavlich

More about these mayors:
http://www.alipac.us/f19/ccrkba-look...t-guns-268085/

MAYORS BLOOMBERG AND MENINO LOOK FOR POLITICAL GAIN IN CONN. SHOOTING



by AWR HAWKINS 15 Dec 2012, 5:06 AM PDT

As Mayor Bloomberg reacted to the Connecticut shooting with calls for "immediate action against guns" and Boston Mayor Menino joined him with calls for a "national gun policy," it was sickening to see the shooting politicized within hours of its occurrence.

It is literally sickening.

These two mayors seem to be eaten up with an anti-gun ideology that keeps them from seeing the world as it is, rather than the world as they wish it was. For in the world as it is, Connecticut has some of the toughest state gun laws in the land: yet this tragedy happened.

The lesson: to react emotionally to this tragedy and seek to limit the gun rights of people throughout America because of the actions of one evil 20-year-old in Connecticut is senseless.

But there's another lesson as well. Here we are, less than two weeks from Christmas, and the families of those killed have suffered losses unspeakable at this time of year. How callous does a politician have to be to use this suffering as springboard for personal agendas? Yet that's exactly what Bloomberg and Menino have done.

Both mayors have proven themselves shameless in this particular.

My heart breaks with the hearts of the fathers who received the phone call that their child was unaccounted for today. This was a tragedy of the first order, not a "crisis" for Bloomberg and Menino to spin to their advantage.
Mayors Bloomberg and Menino Look for Political Gain in Conn. Shooting

Menino is a very active progressive, in my opinion operative for the socialist agenda.

​http://www.alipac.us/f19/boston-mayo...day%94-261423/

​http://www.alipac.us/f19/boston-mayo...e-http-261367/

​http://www.alipac.us/f12/boston-meni...me-imm-231997/

http://www.alipac.us/f19/13-stabbed-...-hours-231437/
Also:
http://www.alipac.us/f19/administration-propose-steps-gun-safety-231879/