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Michael
Bloomberg is not having the success in burying the NRA that he expected
when
he announced his $50 million campaign against the Second Amendment
and the
formation of his gun control umbrella group, Everytown for Gun
Safety.
As we reported last week, his investment in Milwaukee to defeat pro-gun
Sheriff David
Clarke failed in spite of the huge infusion of cash
Bloomberg provided to promote Clarke’s
anti-gun opponent. This defeat,
on top of the recall of Colorado state senators last year,
shows the
inherent weakness of Bloomberg’s operation: it has no real grassroots
support,
just money and bluster.
To make things worse for the former mayor, NRA has launched a national
effort aimed at
exposing Michael Bloomberg’s anti-freedom agenda. The
"Meet the Real Michael Bloomberg"
advertising campaign kicked off this
week with a television advertisement titled “Insult.” “Insult”
is the
first in a series of ads that will highlight Bloomberg's hypocrisy,
arrogance and desire
to control the lives of ordinary Americans.
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Guns
are durable goods, and Americans have bought more than 100 million
brand new guns during the last 15 years, on top of the 200 million they
already had. Thus, when assessing the strength of gun ownership in the
United States, it probably doesn’t matter very much whether Americans
bought a few more or a few less guns this year than they did last year
or the year before. To paraphrase a quote often attributed to the late
U.S. Sen. Everett Dirksen, “100 million here and 100 million there, and
by and by you’re talking about a lot of guns.”
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It’s
long been a predictable pattern. A state or locality relaxes its
restrictions on carrying firearms and doesn’t devolve into the anarchy
gun opponents predicted. The latest example comes from Mississippi,
where last year a change in the law, and a Mississippi Supreme Court
ruling, ensured that law-abiding residents could exercise their right to
carry openly without a permit. According to a report in Mississippi’s
Clarion-Ledger, after a year of lawful open carry, not much has changed.
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For
over a decade, anti-gun activists have attempted to exploit the
country’s fear of terrorism in order to expand the categories of persons
prohibited by federal law from owning firearms. Dubbed the effort to
close the “Terror Gap” by the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), gun
controllers, including Michael Bloomberg, have championed legislation
that would empower the federal government to deny firearms to those on
the Terrorist Watchlist.
NRA has uniformly opposed such legislation as a violation of the Fifth
Amendment right to due process, repeatedly calling into question the
list’s accuracy and secrecy and the inability of a person meaningfully
to challenge his or her listing.
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The
Army is talking about adopting a new pistol and, according to Maureen
Mackey of the Fiscal Times, “when that happens, America’s emergency
rooms better be prepared for the carnage that’s likely to follow.”
Previously, freelance anti-gun writer Matt Valentine made a similar
prediction in The Atlantic.
Along with their apparent predisposition against guns, Mackey and
Valentine base their predictions on 1992 claim from Daniel Webster,
whose advocacy of gun control masquerades as public health research.
Webster argued that as semi-automatic pistols became more popular than
revolvers in the 1980s, the number of wounds per gunshot victim
increased.
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