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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBloomberg: NRA Press Conference Was 'Shameful'
?6NEW YORK -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the National Rifle Association's call for armed guards in schools represents a paranoid vision of America.
Bloomberg has long called for stricter gun control laws. He says Friday's press conference by the nation's largest gun lobby group was "a shameful evasion of the crisis facing our country."
The NRA says posting armed police officers in every school could stop the next killer "waiting in the wings."
The NRA's proposal comes a week after a gunman fatally shot 26 people in a Newtown, Conn., elementary school. The victims included 20 children.
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Bloomberg: NRA Press Conference Was 'Shameful' (Original Post)
spanone
Dec 2012
OP
That was about money... really big, big money. I'm sure Bloomberg is a major believer in that.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#7
After this cretin used his "private army" the NYPD to beat and bloody the Occupy movement
Fire Walk With Me
Dec 2012
#6
Skittles
(153,169 posts)1. Step One commences: start shaming these fearful, paranoid NRA assholes
they are NOT mainstream - they are paranoid and delusional
spanone
(135,844 posts)2. absolutely. sad thing is they have no shame.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)3. next step: shame the politicans who accept NRA money
yes INDEED
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)9. How do you shame the shameless?
It's too bad that the NRA couldn't be caught under the RICO act, but I am only dreaming.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)10. think Akin and Mourdock
there's wrong and then there is VERY wrong
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)4. As a repuke 1%er, Bloomie should know all about shameful
Cha
(297,285 posts)5. And, yet Bloomberg endorsed NRA Candidate, Scott Brown over
Elizabeth Warren.. go figure.
"BLOOMBERG BACKS SCOTT BROWN, THE NRA'S CANDIDATE, AGAINST ELIZABETH WARREN"
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/07/6292816/bloomberg-backs-scott-brown-nras-candidate-against-elizabeth-warren
freshwest
(53,661 posts)7. That was about money... really big, big money. I'm sure Bloomberg is a major believer in that.
Cha
(297,285 posts)8. I know.. wonder if he supports the NRA candidate again after all this
tragedy?
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)6. After this cretin used his "private army" the NYPD to beat and bloody the Occupy movement
he has zero credibility or moral high ground from which to preach.