New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has long campaigned against the Second Amendment right to bear arms. This political opportunist has taken advantage of the uproar over the Trayvon Martin shooting to push his anti-gun agenda by starting a campaign against the ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws that have been enacted by Florida and 23 other states.
Bloomberg is sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong by meddling in the business of other states. Instead of tending to the business of his city which experiences daily shootings despite having the strongest gun control laws in the country, Bloomberg is more concerned about overturning the self-defense gun laws of other states.
WOW: MICHAEL BLOOMBERG BLASTS ‘STAND YOUR GROUND’ LAWS AS A ‘LICENSE TO MURDER’
By Brett LoGiurato
Business Insider
April 11, 2012
To Michael Bloomberg, "Stand Your Ground" laws in Florida and other states equal legalized murder.
“Plain and simple, this is just trying to give people a license to murder,” Bloomberg, the New York City mayor, said at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, according to Politico.
He took aim at the National Rifle Association:
__“The laws are not the kind of laws a civilized society should have and the [National Rifle Association] should be ashamed of themselves. This has nothing to do with gun-owners’ rights. This has nothing to do with the Second Amendment.”
Bloomberg is a prominent gun-control advocate. His comments come as George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in late February, is reportedly being charged with second-degree murder and is in custody.
Stand Your Ground laws are in effect in more than 20 states. But they have recently been a target after Martin's killing by gun-control advocates. By saying it is a "license to murder," Bloomberg has made perhaps the most eye-popping statement on the laws by a high-ranking public official.
He also referred to them as "Shoot First" laws.
__“The fact is, all Americans already have a right to defend themselves with commensurate force,” he said, “but these Shoot First laws have nothing to do with that or with the exercise of Second Amendment rights. Instead they justify civilian gunplay and invite vigilante justice and retribution with disastrous results."
Bloomberg also announced Wednesday that he had launched a campaign to reform or repeal the Stand Your Ground laws. In the accompanying release announcing the grassroots campaign, Bloomberg pointed to 10 states where murder rates have risen at least 35 percent since the laws were enacted.
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Bloomberg is a self-rightous liberal with more time and money than he knows what to do with, so he attempts to force his narrow-minded bigotry on others.
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