Mayor Bloomberg Rips Congress Over Gun Control
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg slammed Congress Sunday for not providing federal funding to keep guns out of the wrong hands.
Touting a new Super Bowl ad against illegal guns, the mayor said states don’t get enough money to perform proper background checks on gun applicants.
“Federal laws say you can’t get a gun if you have a drug problem, psychiatric problem, criminal record or [are a] minor, and yet Congress doesn’t give monies to make sure that we can have a background check,” Bloomberg said on “Meet the Press.”
Criminals seeking guns can take advantage of “too many loopholes,” the mayor said.
“The background database isn’t up to date, private sector sales of guns is something like 40%, and they don’t do background checks,” he said.
Even with the city’s tough gun laws, a Brooklyn thug with prior arrests allegedly obtained a pistol and shot cop Kevin Brennan in the head last week, he said.
“New York is now so much lower than almost every big city, we still had a cop shot last week with a gun that somebody had, even though the federal laws prohibited that person from having a gun,” the mayor said, referring to accused gunman Luis “Baby” Ortiz.
Bloomberg filmed the Super Bowl ad with his Boston counterpart, Mayor Thomas Menino. In the 30-second clip, the pair, decked out in their respective football team’s gear, debate whose city is better but agree on tougher gun laws.
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And yet, apparently members of Bloomber’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns are themselves far more likely to be convicted felons…
“Laws are for the little people,” apparently.
awacs
NY has the strictest gun laws in the nation, more or less, and it didn’t stop Mr. Ortiz from getting a gun.
So, of course, we need more and stricter laws. Of course.
Alex
The only hands Bloomie keeps the guns away are law-abiding citizens.
What part of : “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” don’t u understand ?! And you have a hutzpa to demand US Congress give you money to infringe on the rights of Americans to keep and bear arms?
DeClasse- Intellectual
Let us not forget, that under the direction of Attorney-General Eric Holder the Obama administration enabled or chanelled guns through an operation “fast and furous” (which was condemned from the start) with these guns eventially winding up in hands of criminals and these guns killed American government agents. In New York, one needs a well trained and well armed citzenry given the levels of crime and the inability of N.Y.’s finest to respond on time to every incident.
DeClasse- Intellectual
P.S. let us not forget that Mayor Bloomberg and his liberal judges are very soft on criminals as if they have more rights then the citzenry. Slpas on the hand just encourge more crime.
Yossele
Aderaba! What comrade bloomberg supports is keeping firearms out of the RIGHT hands. The criminals don’t follow gun laws, your honor…