How did this MORON get elected?

Well
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has done it again and demonstrated how
stupid he really is. On CNN’s Big Story with Piers Morgan, Bloomberg
made an utterly ridiculous comment that is almost on par with his views
on Big Gulp drinks.

“Well I would take it one step further. I don’t
understand why the police officers of this country don’t stand up
collectively and say, ‘We’re gonna go on strike. We’re not
going to protect you unless you, the public, through your legislature do
what’s required to keep us safe (ie. more gun control). After all police officers want to go home to their families.”

This comment came in response to Morgans question, “Why do so many
Americans not feel angry enough to demand further gun control?”

Bloomberg went on to say,

“We’re doing everything we can to make their job more
difficult, but more importantly more dangerous by leaving guns in the
hands of people who shouldn’t have them and letting people who have
those guns buy things like armor piercing bullets. The only reason to
have armor piercing bullets is to go through bullet resistant vests.
The only people who wear bullet resistant vest are our police officers
and that’s true across this whole country. So, we should at some point,
we have to understand that this is our children or grandchildren or us,
but for the police officers it’s much more immediate because when you
and I hear shots we run away. They run towards it.”

When I heard this I turned to my wife and asked rhetorically, “How do
morons like Mr. Bloomberg get in office? Let’s deal with his argument
here.

First he says that the police should go on strike and not protect
citizens till they enact more gun laws. OK fine, police go on strike,
they stop getting paid. We pay them to perform a job and honestly it
isn’t really protection they provide. Plenty of police officers were
right there at the theater in Aurora, Colorado and did they protect
anyone? Nope, not one person. Police officers are to enforce the law and that is why they are referred to as law enforcement officers. If they don’t want to do their jobs, then let them step aside and find another line of work.

Gun control laws will not protect police officers and they will not protect citizens. I demonstrated that on Monday
A piece of paper protects from a speeding bullet about as well as
those police officers did in Aurora. I’m not taking a shot at police
officers here. What I’m doing is pointing out Bloomberg’s fallacies.

Officers want to go home to their families like we all do. Police
officers also have a weapon they carry with them too. Why then should
law-abiding citizens not be allowed to keep and bear their arms all day
so that they might return home to their families Mr. Bloomberg?

We are not doing anything to make police officers’ jobs more
difficult or dangerous. If you have people who have shown themselves to
be a threat deal with that, but leave the Second Amendment rights of
law-abiding citizens alone.

Bloomberg goes of on a ridiculous notion about armor piercing bullets. OK, let’s get this out in the open. I wrote about this very topic as New Jersey was putting in place a law to ban ammunition. Most law enforcement wear Level II-A protective vests that
stop 9mm and .40 bullets. So that means that if strictly taken for
armor piercing all other ammunition would be banned. This means you
would be unable to get ammo for your AR-15, many hunting rifles and even
some handguns, such as your trusty .45.

Also some citizens can purchase these items to protect themselves.
So Mayor Bloomberg is just not being honest here. The police officers
are not the only ones wearing such protection and you don’t need “armor
piercing” bullets to penetrate the vests most police officers wear.

He is right about one thing though. It is about us, our children and
grand children. It’s about whether or not we are going to live in a
land where a corrupt government and criminals are the only ones with
guns and we are at the mercy of both, neither or which are able to
protect us in a time of crisis.