There was a sense of Back to the Future in New York City when current Democratic Mayor Eric Adams was joined by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg for an announcement. Bloomberg, of course, is the failed presidential candidate and hypocritical billionaire subsidizer of anti-Second Amendment gun control groups Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action.
Mayor Adams largely won office by campaigning on getting tough on crime and made news when he let it be known he’d carry a concealed firearm in office and forgo the mayor’s security detail. Those promises have vanished.
Mayor Adams professed before reporters he doesn’t carry a firearm and the New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell announced more security for Mayor Adams following the city subway shooting incident. Turns out, the new boss is much like the old boss.
Midnight Rider
Mayor Adams welcomed Bloomberg to City Hall for a press event regarding summer programs for charter school students. The real headline, though, was a comment the current mayor made about the former’s gun control record.
Mayor Adams praised Bloomberg. “He was the modern-day Paul Revere around gun violence,” said Mayor Adams. “If we embraced what you were doing in cities across the country on gun violence, we wouldn’t be where we are right now.”
“Where we are right now,” Mayor Adams means, is surging crime, lax prosecutors letting criminals off easy and gun control laws in the city that punishes law-abiding Americans while failing to hold criminals to account for their crimes. Mayor Adams took over City Hall following Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration that slashed the NYPD budget by $1 billion.
Bloomberg’s hardly a modern-day Paul Revere. Revere called Minutemen to arms in his midnight horseback ride warning of a British offensive. Bloomberg is a limousine liberal shouting for more gun control. His campaign to vilify the firearm industry actually put the lives of police and investigators in danger.
Going Rogue
Bloomberg used his Mayors Against Illegal Guns group as a bludgeon against a Constitutionally-protected industry to file lawsuits against firearm retailers and distributors for the criminal misuse of guns in New York. Bloomberg, in violation of federal law, provided law enforcement sensitive trace data from the Bureau of Alcohol. Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to private investigators hired by the City’s civil attorneys to “investigate” firearm retailers by posing as gun buyers. Several retailers Bloomberg targeted fought back, filing suit against the mayor.
“Bloomberg went too far in gun sting,” a New York Times headline read. The paper reported, “Mr. Bloomberg and senior members of his administration committed fraud by directing undercover officers to falsify federal paperwork as they engaged in a gun purchase and that the mayor made defamatory statements about legitimate businesses.”
Bloomberg’s private operations interfered with as many as 18 federal investigations. The Justice Department admonished Bloomberg for rogue investigations in a letter that blasted him for conducting the stings “without proper law enforcement authority.”
Since, Bloomberg spent over $1 billion on his own short-lived presidential run and failed to buy Congressional seats for his gun control agenda. This is hardly the example New Yorkers are looking for when it comes to service to citizens over special interests that doesn’t protect communities.
The Wrong Example
Mayor Adams talked big about a tough-on-crime approach during the campaign. These days, though, he’s mirroring Bloomberg’s gun control mantras. He’s ignoring that criminals are committing the crimes and instead wants to blame guns.
“The problem we’re facing is a problem that is hitting our entire nation right now and that is why it is a national response,” Mayor Adams told CNN. “We need a national response to this issue.”
His crime reduction plan for New York City is a list of gun control favorites, including a national ban on modern sporting rifles (MSRs), which are already illegal in New York City, and universal background checks. Mayor Adams shared the stage with President Biden earlier this year and both blamed “rogue dealers” and an “iron pipeline” instead of focusing on the criminal activity happening right in New York City, where overall crime is up 41 percent since last year, major crimes spiked by 60 percent and murders rose 10 percent.
The reality is that New Yorkers and the rest of America reject Bloomberg’s gun control policies repackaged oin Mayor Adam’s new wrapping paper.
Larry Keane is SVP for Government and Public Affairs, Assistant Secretary and General Counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
Gag…
mini mike has all the sleazy friends money can buy.
Bloomberg has no legitimate excuse for his pathetic and hypocritical actions. Bloomberg is a seditious TRAITOR and should be dealt with as is typical for such criminals. He’s a coward and uses his money to bully and impose his agenda on people less connected than he is yet has his armed guards always present near him. Such hypocrisy easily identifies those of his type as tyrants.
Making laws is easy and cheap. Who cares if it doesn’t work!! Getting tough on crime is expensive, really expensive! Housing creeps in prison cost a lot of money. Courts, lawyers and all the associated systems of justice, be it probation…etc is big money.
Letting crime happen and blaming guns is easy and cheap. Besides, Bloomberg, the mayor and people of importance, they have armed protection. The rest of them (us) we’re simple commoners.
STILL BETTER TO HAVE AND NOT NEED , THAN TO NEED AND NOT HAVE .
“Turns out, the new boss is much like the old boss.”
No surprise there.
Clearly New York City doesn’t give a crap about it’s citizens, however it looks like the Supreme Court is about to hand down a partial fix to the problem. Once the unwashed citizenry has the ability to carry a concealed firearm there will be a lot more dead thugs, at least until the lesson has sunk in that real work is a more attractive alternative to being a DRT thug.
Little Mikey lives most of the time in London these days. When you have to escape NYC crime by living in London, you know that things have gone to hell.
Do the bobbies allow him to bring his private security detail of retired police officers?I can’t imagine the Brits allowing his detail to carry firearms. Or does he have to buy British?
Wonder what Adams’ price tag was??
For all practical purposes he came cheap.
And yet the other day Adams admitted that former police chief Bratton was right about it being liberal democrat policies that had crime levels up.
But that’s typical of liberal democrat anti-gun flunkies, never let reality or the truth get in the way of your lies.
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The reality is that New Yorkers and the rest of America reject Bloomberg’s gun control policies repackaged oin Mayor Adam’s new wrapping paper.————–quote
Falsehood. Most Republicans and Democrats favor Universal Background Checks and Safe Storage Laws.
https://morningconsult.com/2021/03/10/house-gun-legislation-background-checks-polling/
https://iop.harvard.edu/get-involved/harvard-political-review/vast-majority-americans-support-universal-background-checks
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/oct/03/chris-abele/do-90-americans-support-background-checks-all-gun-/
A more accurate parallel would be – the Thomas Gage of gun control. Thomas Gage was who commanded troops to seize guns and Paul Revere was warning about.
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