Daily Video 2.19.15

Bloomberg’s Comments Add To A Long Tradition Of Racially-Charged Gun Control Rhetoric

 

 

 

 

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Poughkeepsie Mayor Speaks Out Against Bloomberg’s MAIG

Valley View: Mayoral Group’s Gun Agenda Is Wrong

 

 

 

” I’m the mayor of one of the largest cities in the Hudson Valley, just 90 minutes north of New York City. I’m a life member of the National Rifle Association and a former member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, or MAIG, started by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2006.

  I’m no longer a member of MAIG. Why? Just as Ronald Reagan said of the Democratic Party, it left me. And I’m not alone: Nearly 50 pro-Second Amendment mayors have left the organization. They left for the same reason I did. MAIG became a vehicle for Bloomberg to promote his personal gun-control agenda — violating the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens and taking resources away from initiatives that could actually work to protect our neighborhoods and save precious lives. Gun control will actually make a bad situation worse.

  It did not take long to realize that MAIG’s agenda was much more than ridding felons of illegal guns; that under the guise of helping mayors facing a crime and drug epidemic, MAIG intended to promote confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens. I don’t believe, never have believed and never will believe that public safety is enhanced by encroaching on our right to bear arms, and I will not be a part of any organization that does.”

 

Read the whole thing at The Poughkeepsie Journal

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bloomberg MAIG Member Sentenced For Gun Crime

Ex-Marcus Hook Mayor Sentenced To 10-20 Months

 

 

 

” Despite impassioned pleas from family and friends of former Marcus Hook Mayor James Schiliro, a Delaware County Court judge on Monday sent him to jail.”

 

 

 

” Schiliro was sentenced to 10 to 20 months for an alcohol-fueled episode last February in which he had a police car bring a former neighbor – a 20-year-old to whom he said he was attracted – to his home, made him drink wine, and refused to let him leave for 3 1/2 hours.

  During the encounter, Schiliro threatened to kill himself and fired a gun into a stack of papers. The man eventually left and later called police.

  In November, Schiliro was convicted of recklessly endangering another person, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, official oppression, and furnishing liquor to a minor.”

 

   Left unsaid in the above referenced article is the convicted mayor’s former membership in Nanny Bloomberg’s anti-gun group MAIG . You can read about the original event here .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hooray for Civil Rights Progress

   Gun Control is a loser of an issue for most politicians these days and Thanks be to that ..

  ” We’ve already seen the sadly inevitable rush to capitalize on the tragedy in Colorado as an excuse to start passing strict gun laws,ranging
from Bloomberg to Rendell and more. But as we sort through the aftermath of the disaster and the victims begin to pick up the pieces, is this opportunism going to result in any new legislation along those lines?One study linked by the AP seems to indicate that the gun grabbing crowd may wind up being disappointed.

   Once, every highly publicized outbreak of gun violence produced strong calls from Democrats and a few Republicans for tougher controls on firearms. Now those pleas are muted, a political paradox that’s grown more pronounced in an era scarred by Columbine, Virginia Tech, the wounding of a congresswoman and
now the shooting in a suburban movie theater where carnage is expected on-screen only.”