Know the enemy.
Bloomberg About 30 minutes before two people were shot dead and nine were injured near New York’s Empire State Building, the mayor of America’s largest city was on the radio talking again about guns.
“It is just too many guns on the streets,” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said during his weekly radio appearance today on WOR radio. “The argument, ‘Guns don’t kill people, people kill people,’ is one of the most disingenuous things you can say. It does take a person to pull the trigger.”
Moments after the mayor finished speaking, Jeffrey Johnson of Manhattan returned to a business that fired him last year and shot Steve Ercolino, 41, a former co-worker, on the street, New York police said. Johnson, wielding a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol, fled the scene, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters. Johnson was killed by police.
Bloomberg, 70, has made restricting gun sales a signature issue. He serves as co-chairman of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a coalition of more than 700 mayors who advocate new laws and stiffer enforcement of existing ones. The group argues for measures to keep guns away from criminals.
Today’s episode follows a July 20 shooting near Denver where a masked gunman opened fire, killing 12 and injuring 58 in a suburban Aurora theater. In Oak Creek, Wisconsin, a gunman killed six people at a Sikh temple on Aug. 5 before turning the weapon on himself.
‘No Tolerance’
“Our state has no tolerance for senseless acts of violence that harm our people,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, said in an e-mailed statement today. “We will do everything possible to ensure that law enforcement officials have the tools they need so residents of the city and tourists can enjoy everything New York City has to offer without fearing for their own safety and security.”
On Aug. 7,Cuomo said he’d make strengthening the state’s gun laws a priority when lawmakers return to Albany in January.
New York City law requires a license to purchase a handgun. A special license is needed to carry the handguns loaded with ammunition. Applicants undergo a criminal background check.
The suspect bought his gun legally in Florida and had no permit to own or carry it in New York City, said Marc LaVorgna, Bloomberg’s spokesman.
Getting a handgun license can take as long as a year and requires at least four trips to police headquarters, including one where applicants are interviewed by an investigator, said John S. Chambers, a New York attorney who helps applicants navigate the process.
Gun Laws
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence ranks New York as having the fourth-strictest gun laws among U.S. states, behind California, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
Johnson doesn’t appear to have a criminal record, said Bloomberg, a political independent, who is the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News.
Today’s shooting was the third this month at a major New York City tourist attraction. Yesterday, a street vendor near Yankee Stadium in the Bronx shot two competitors, according to the New York Daily News, and on Aug. 11, police gunned down a knife-wielding man near Times Square.
Bloomberg repeated criticism of both President Barack Obama, a Democrat, and Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate. Bloomberg said they have failed to develop a policy or legislative agenda to control illicit firearms sales.
NRA Opposition
“We kill 34 people a day in this country with illegal guns,” Bloomberg said on WOR. “The costs to society, all of us are paying for this. People don’t understand, because of the police needed and the hospitals and all of this stuff, and people are afraid to go out and shop and everything.”
Andrew Arulanandam, director of public affairs for the Fairfax, Virginia-based National Rifle Association, didn’t respond to a phone call seeking comment.
The NRA has opposed a Bloomberg-backed proposal, which has repeatedly failed to pass the state Legislature, to require semiautomatic pistols be “microstamped” with an alpha-numeric code. The mark would help investigators identify the origin of guns used in a crime. Bloomberg and the Mayors Against Illegal Guns have urged U.S. lawmakers to resist an NRA-backed law allowing people to carry concealed guns anywhere in the U.S if that person’s home state allows it.
The satirical newspaper The Onion, posted a story on its website with the headline “Nation Celebrates Full Week Without Deadly Mass Shooting.” In smaller print, it added an “update” saying: “Never mind.”
since bloomberg stole his 3rd illegal term and only ask for $1 salary, One must ask what is his agenda and what is he pushing? as nanny bloomberg outlaws big sodas,fatty foods ect ;One must ask what the proper role of government is.
And…welcome back with your daily dose of Bloomy’s (aka Pee-Wee) Playhouse and I’m your critical host, NC. Now, let’s review Pee-Wee’s important rant of the day:
“Propaganda Alert: Bloomberg Called For Gun Limits Minutes Before NYC Shots”
Could be a false flag if that’s the case.
“Moments after the mayor finished speaking, Jeffrey Johnson of Manhattan returned to a business that fired him last year and shot Steve Ercolino, 41, a former co-worker, on the street, New York police said. Johnson, wielding a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol, fled the scene, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters. Johnson was killed by police.”
How convenient. Hey Pee-Wee, ever stop to think if you helped to loosen those business regulations and help create a better economy with more jobs (maybe throw some of that corrupt wealth of yours back into society) this guy might have not used his gun on a former co-worker (who I’m guessing is probably the one who fired him) and would be living a happy work life somewhere else?
“New York City law requires a license to purchase a handgun. A special license is needed to carry the handguns loaded with ammunition. Applicants undergo a criminal background check.
Getting a handgun license can take as long as a year and requires at least four trips to police headquarters, including one where applicants are interviewed by an investigator, said John S. Chambers, a New York attorney who helps applicants navigate the process.”
Wow….so do the psychotic NYPD officers have to make 4 trips to police headquarters and be interviewed by an investigator, too in order to purchase and carry a firearm or are they basically just given a slap on the wrist because remember, who injured all of those pedestrians in the shootout the other day? Nope, it wasn’t the shooter….
“The suspect bought his gun legally in Florida and had no permit to own or carry it in New York City, said Marc LaVorgna, Bloomberg’s spokesman.”
This makes me wonder why a person with no job probably, would come all the way from Florida just to shoot his ex-co-worker. Either he was paid to do that (meaning false flag scenario) or he was pretty desperate since losing his job to do something that crazy.
“We kill 34 people a day in this country with illegal guns,” Bloomberg said on WOR. “The costs to society, all of us are paying for this. People don’t understand, because of the police needed and the hospitals and all of this stuff, and people are afraid to go out and shop and everything.”
What the hell is Pee-Wee saying in this jibberish rant? I don’t know about you, but I lost him in the middle of the third sentence.
And that’s your daily dose of Bloomy’s (aka Pee-Wee) Playhouse for the moment. I’m your host, NC, “And now you’ve heard…the rest of the story. Good day?”
They take the guns away and then just look at all the unconventional weapons that will start showing up. Now that will be more scary than any gun in the hands of a crazy person. How about these law makers and cops be the first to get rid of their weapons ie. bone breakers and tazers, ect. included. No more gun carying body guards for them. At least us real americans will keep our guns – law makers are not real americans – law makers are trying to twist the constitution around for their own benefit, and not the common citizen as they have proven time and time again in the past.
Well said, brother!
This event should be used by our side for political advantage.
Since Bloomberg is trying to disarm the whole country, maybe we should insist that he start with the NYPD. After all, they just put made the Batman shooter look like a girl scout.
But the truth is, that shootings /killings take place thousands of times a day, always have.
Now, all of a sudden, the lame stream are, are running riot, reporting, reporting,reporting….every crime spree.
It’s a tragedy. But it’s NOT real news.
So why are they doing it? Now?
Well, we know, don’t we?
And Unarmed populace, without the ,God-given Rights, is a mentally beaten Populace, easier to control. They’ll learn to be accepting, of everything done to them after that.
“It is just too many guns on the streets,” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said during his weekly radio appearance today on WOR radio.
I addressed this comment in a previous article.
IDIOT!!! ( Bloomie )
““It is just too many guns on the streets,” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said during his weekly radio appearance today on WOR radio.”
“It is”? “It is”? This guy is a billionaire and he can’t even say a sentence correctly. I bet you those wonderful homeless people who he provides “Pleasure experiences” with can speak better English and acquire more intelligence in one day than he can.
Hey Pee-Wee, try and replace “It is” with “There are” and you might be able to raise your intelligence bar a notch to go with those billions of dollars you have. Hey, whoever said billionaires were smart? Pee-Wee strikes again!!!
That’s a common trend I’ve started to notice amongst the insanely rich… they’re just not very bright people. Deceptive, scheming, and manipulative, yes. But ‘bright’, not so much.
He’s right.
There are too many guns on the street… in the hands of the police.
Disarm the cops and arm the law abiding citizens and then lets see how things work, because everywhere it was done the other way, innocent civilians didn’t fair to well, this incident being a good example.