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At least there is still 1 media outlet who will call out both sides
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:08 am
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:08 am
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Decent article talking about the left and Bloomberg's stance on gun rights. Good article, definitely worth the read. But for those with short attention spans and/or little time available, here are a few highlights...
Decent article talking about the left and Bloomberg's stance on gun rights. Good article, definitely worth the read. But for those with short attention spans and/or little time available, here are a few highlights...
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In an extensive interview with The New York Times, the former mayor outlined his plan for a nationwide lobbying effort designed to counteract and overwhelm the National Rifle Association. He certainly has the cash: Despite its notoriety, the NRA spends only about $20 million a year, and relies heavily on the grassroots enthusiasm of its members. Bloomberg, on the other hand, shrugged at the idea of throwing in an experimental $50 million “as if he were describing the tip he left on a restaurant check.”
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If Bloomberg wanted to spend some pocket change to undermine any other constitutional right, liberals would quickly complain about how the nation’s elites use their money to overinfluence policy and consolidate power away from the broader citizenry. The billionaire Koch brothers, who fund numerous conservative and libertarian causes, have become archetypes of this phenomenon, to the benefit of Obama-aligned outrage sites such as Salon and ThinkProgress. But when it comes to the Second Amendment, liberals don’t see a question of freedom or liberty, even when a billionaire tries to buy it away.
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Bloomberg has never had a problem with standing armies; in 2011 he even bragged to an audience at MIT, “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.” The NYPD is the largest, best-equipped municipal police force in the country, and its influence extends far beyond American territorial borders. It operates in 11 foreign cities and runs its own foreign policy and intelligence network. Bloomberg personally boasted that the NYPD has the capacity to shoot down passenger planes. It’s clear from his record that it’s not the “gun” part of “gun control” Bloomberg is interested in.
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That gives Bloomberg’s army a rate of over 46 shooting deaths per 100,000, killing people at a clip that dwarfs any civilian level in the country. To put it in perspective, Chicago — an American city known for gun violence — hit its peak murder rate of 34 per 100,000 in 1992.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:10 am to funnystuff
I do feel like Al Jazeera America is one media outlet that tries to do real journalism.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:13 am to Mo Jeaux
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I do feel like Al Jazeera America is one media outlet that tries to do real journalism.
i don't often have a problem with its reporting. i wish they had more live news content for tv (i may just be ignorant)
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:18 am to SlowFlowPro
Fair critique, they don't have many live news segments. But the journalism they do is second to none in my estimation.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:26 am to funnystuff
Agreed. They are one of my 1st news sources every morning. Wish they had more new reports everyday.
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:35 am to funnystuff
I haven't read the article yet, but will do so shortly.
Quick question: if Bloomberg throws 50 million into gun control efforts, where does that 50 million go? Maybe I'm just ignorant as to how lobbying works or whatever, but what is he gonna do- spend 50 million bucks on anti-gun TV commercials?
Quick question: if Bloomberg throws 50 million into gun control efforts, where does that 50 million go? Maybe I'm just ignorant as to how lobbying works or whatever, but what is he gonna do- spend 50 million bucks on anti-gun TV commercials?
Posted on 4/29/14 at 10:51 am to funnystuff
I didn't know the nypd was that large and powerful. That's scary as frick
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:17 am to funnystuff
quote:Boom-Shaka-Laka!!
It’s clear from his record that it’s not the “gun” part of “gun control” Bloomberg is interested in.
That sums it up perfectly.
quote:This guy gets it.
we should be more worried about guns in the hands of the police.
This post was edited on 4/29/14 at 11:22 am
Posted on 4/29/14 at 11:28 am to DosManos
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Quick question: if Bloomberg throws 50 million into gun control efforts, where does that 50 million go?
At least some of it goes to paying "grassroots" supporters to protest the NRA.
LINK
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Ten days after Michael Bloomberg announced a $50 million investment in gun control and proclaimed the National Rifle Association should be afraid of him, the Bloomberg-backed Everytown for Gun Safety group is taking the fight directly to NRA — picking up a chunk of the tab for hundreds of activists and gun violence survivors to attend the annual NRA convention in Indianapolis.
The group said that more than 100 mothers and 20 survivors of gun violence will arrive in Indianapolis on Friday. Everytown is covering the cost of the mothers' hotels in Indianapolis, and paying the travel and lodging expenses for a group of 20 survivors to be in Indianapolis this weekend, an Everytown spokesperson told BuzzFeed.
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