NYT and guns
Anyone in the gun community knows that Bloomberg has an anti-gun bug up his ass lately. But watch this bit of spin from the NYT:
In His War on Illegal Guns, Bloomberg Is Facing Uphill
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s war against the gun industry went into overdrive last week, with an appearance on Capitol Hill on Tuesday and a speech two days later, at a fund-raising dinner for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, in which he assailed illegal guns as “scourges to our society.” And his campaign will only intensify in the next few months, as Mr. Bloomberg intends to announce the city’s first lawsuits against rogue gun dealers and to press Albany to toughen the penalties for criminal gun possession.
Wait a moment. We start off with a war on illegal guns and that becomes a war against the gun industry. See, because in the NYT and Bloomberg’s little fantasy world, those are the same things even tough every where else, they are not.
April 5th, 2006 at 12:05 am
I just want to know…how long before gun manufacturers and/or distributors refuse to sell to or perform maintenance services for the NYPD?
April 5th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
If I was in the gun business that is exactly what I would do. I wouldn’t sell anything to city of New York while that nonsense is going on. No guns, no repairs, and not a single round of ammunition.
April 8th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
If there was any doubt about what the antis are REALLY up to, I’d say this erases it. As far as I’m concerned, the “we don’t really want to go to war on your guns, just the bad evil guns” nonsense rings extra hollow today after having read that.
April 8th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
[…] Say Uncle has a nice little blurb on New York Mayor Bloomberg’s latest Quixotic anti-gun campaign, and a related Freudian slip from the New York Times. Note how they seamlessly go from war on “illegal guns” to war on “the gun industry.” […]