Michael Bloomberg, NYC Mayor, Reacts to Colorado Shooting: Do You Agree That It Is Time for Gun Control?

by Chris D Posted 2012/07/20 18:00:00

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How many more mass shootings by young troubled men do we have to endure? The 2nd amendment is sacred and has been since the founding of the country, but is it time to put some safeguards in place so school kids and movie goers and college students aren't subjected to homicidal maniacs shooting them with all too available guns? Is it time to reform gun control laws?

HUFFINGTONPOST.COM reports:
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called on President Barack Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney Friday to detail their views to improve gun control in wake of the mass shooting at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater that left at least 12 dead and scores wounded. The suspected gunman, now identified as 24-year-old James Holmes, opened fire during a premier of "The Dark Knight Rises."

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Semper Fi 2012/07/20 18:28:51 (edited)

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It's always time for gun control........Proper breathing, proper sight picture and alignment, proper trigger pull.. You know. Gun Control!

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Royo 2012/12/03 03:35:55

No

You should control the access of guns to crazy people, but honestly, you can't be afraid of guns. You have to respect them.

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Merna 2012/10/10 06:28:07

Yes

Only an idiot would think having a crossfire would keep him and his family safe.

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actor44 to Merna 2012/10/23 04:17:17

Then you limit your family to the receiving end ,and blind hope, Ill recipricate!

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Linda 2012/09/02 01:32:14

Other

In my opinion this is a yes and no question. Most of the people who have guns are the ones who should not be allowed to have them at all. The day will come when people will be afraid to go outside because someone might be pissed off enough and decide to start shooting, just because he or she is mad. Which in my opinion is no reason to pick up a gun.

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actor44 to Linda 2012/10/23 04:19:09

Maybe you should stay home lest some upset person gets you!

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WOODMAN34 2012/08/08 05:06:26

No

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As a firearms instructor the only gun control I believe in is hitting your target with your first shot. Hay Mr. Bloomingbirdbrain there are plenty of safe guards in place The only thing that is needed now is to enforce the laws on the books. We need to go after the drugs and gangs first then get rid of all the crooked politicians like Mr. bloomingbirdbrain.

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macy 2012/08/08 02:01:36

No

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Do you want people to be beaten and raped in their homes?

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Muhamma... to macy 2012/08/20 06:53:26

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Do you guys ever hear the stuff that comes out of your mouths? Women don't get raped in their home because a home invader thinks she might a shot that kills her daughter sleeping in the adjoining bedroom. It's the police they are afraid of not you. Dumb Ass Ted Nu gent and others said "If someone in the theater could pull their weapon that would have saved lives.... Really a gun battle in a dark and crowned movie theater. Oh yea that would be smart . In NY were I was born and raised just thinking about times of thousands of people on the subway in the morning strapped, All 2nd amendment down! WoW. Wake -up. In little towns and cities yes. In the Big Apple with 11 million angry ass people? It would be catastrophic.

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macy to Muhamma... 2012/08/21 01:52:54

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So if some defenseless people lived in a house alone, without an alarm system, you would just have them be unarmed?

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Merna to macy 2012/10/10 06:29:37

Yes.

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actor44 to Merna 2012/10/23 04:30:19 (edited)

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Since you are so right in being this vunerable,why not publish your name and address,or put an sign in your yard stating so? You people want to prevent others from defending thier lives,you should be rquired to whear signs on your backs saying I am unarmed and defenseless,but after you rape and or kill me ,the police will get me justice ,so you better leave me alone. Yea I think that will work!

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macy to Merna 2012/12/17 03:18:21

You must be quite physically strong, and you must not care about weak people. Either that or you are very trusting.

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actor44 to Muhamma... 2012/08/25 22:28:50

The F.B.I.s stats. are this ;more than 6,000.oo people per.day thwart an violent attact by telling the thug they are armed showing thier gun,producing thier gun or pointing thier gun.Only .oo1 percent need to fire thier weapon less than gov. employees by the way. More than hafe are woman . Are you saying you have some suppieror moral or ethic to cause my daughter or mother,wife to be be murderd ,rapped or suffer permenent ingury to satisfy your authoritarion needs? Who the hell do you think you are?

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Muhamma... to actor44 2012/08/26 20:29:11

Hey wait a damn minute. I said nothing of the sort. I'm talking about a crowded movie theater. That's pitch dark . You, I assume know about fire arms. My point is that was no place for a shootout. The 2nd amendment is real. I am a proud legal gun owner.But 100,000 guns on the subway in my hometown NY is just stupid.That's like me wear a Obama shirt to a tea party rally! Trouble! Obama actually loosened the restriction on guns in the federal park system.It's funny Conservatives are the only Americans that know about the change. Go figure.

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actor44 to Muhamma... 2012/08/28 21:24:25 (edited)

Was not too dark for the shooter to find his targets I would infer from this I could have found mine. Broad daylight and the gov. employees in new york missed thieres and hit 9 people! To make this juicier TWO ex C.I.A. and One ex N.S.A. black ops. operatives say this is BLACK OPS! The witnesses say there was at least two people; tear gas was thrown from two sides of the theatre a 12 year old girl was draged out an exit door around the building and stabed twice where an second gas mask was found which is why the police was looking for another person there. The f.b.i. shows up and all that goes away! Which is why the sheriff changed his story to only one was involved.Whats been done about this ? Nothing,but would make good script for film. I would love to have charactor to play in that.By the way I dont cary a weapon. Maybe a popcorn and coke attac.

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Muhamma... to actor44 2012/08/29 04:06:05

The gunmen was shooting into the crowd. Like the NY cops. He had no"Target" but someone else would have to shoot only the gunmen. The NY situation is exactly my point. Blazon shootout a dark theater? Not a good look.

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actor44 to Muhamma... 2012/12/18 16:31:47

Based on your theatre argument no citizen should have guns? Natural rights no longer apply? Police state would make life easyer for you? The police state of AGENDA21 dose not include you,its called puting the rope around your own neck! Do you know what LENNIN called people like you? USEFUL IDIOTS! One more thing gun free zones INVITE the mentaly ill.I have one more question Im sure you amazing intellect will have an intelligent responce for.WHY do you want to exspand the invitation to nuts with more gun free zones or put another way open house shooting galleries for your local pschotic made availible by your geneticly defective lefty.

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MikeB to Muhamma... 2012/09/01 15:47:28
Muhamma... to MikeB 2012/09/02 05:34:51 (edited)

Are you serious? What about the crossfire? and hey, should the movie goer have worn armor as well? I know Dirty Harry wouldn't needed more than one shot. But if he didn't knock him with one shot. The return fire from the armored gunman, well lets just say "that ain't a good look"

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JackoClubs 2012/08/06 23:01:02 (edited)

No

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Bloomberg needs to shut his trap, pack up and move to Cuba or Venezuela, where he'd be much happier.

So the vast majority of law-abiding gun owners, already squashed under a ponderous chain of laws and regulations, should suffer further, stricter edicts, because of a handful of nuts who may or may not act on their nuttiness? That's liberal "justice" for you; punish the innocent along with the guilty.

People keep saying "We need tougher background checks, so stuff like this won't happen!" That's all as well as it is, but it wouldn't have mattered in this case, because the nutjob had no prior record that would have prevented him from buying the guns and other toys. And that's often the way it is In many, if not most, cases like this one. Nobody saw it coming.

Making more laws doesn't help.The problem with criminals is, they don't obey the law. That's why they're criminals.

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jcadla 2012/08/06 21:51:50
JackoClubs to jcadla 2012/08/08 09:45:00

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"There are already many good laws controlling weapons"

Yes, thousands; and most, if not all, of them are pointless political maneuvering and unconstititutional.
Guns are banned in some American cities; that is unconstitutional. And those cities have among the highest gun crime rates anywhere, because the innocent, law-abiding people are forced to give up their protection. The criminals aren't, because the funny thing abuot criminals is, they don't obey the law.

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Quazimoto 2012/08/06 16:50:01

Yes

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Yes, everyone should have their own gun to control.

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MickPrice 2012/08/03 11:59:52

No

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It's never time for an idea that has failed every time it's been tried. Seriously if guns was the problem murders in America would be white-on-white, rich-on-rich and rural-on-rural in fact it's generally black-on-black, poor-on-poor and urban-on-urban. When Toronto has the same white homicide rate as Chicago it's not the guns..

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JackoClubs to MickPrice 2012/08/06 23:03:14

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Very well put. Guns are banned in Washington DC, yet it has one of the highest gun crime rates in the country.

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Granite 2012/08/02 03:06:16

No

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Gun control I have perfect gun control I hit what I am pointing at. That being said Gun Control only means law abiding people will have greater restrictions. Anyone and I do mean anyone can go into the right spot in any major City in the USA and buy the quote "Saturdat night special" You anti gun nuts may not like to hear it but the truth still is "Outlaw Guns and only Outlaws will have Guns!"After they get the guns what's next any knife with over a inch long blades, every read how many stabbing there are everyday in the USA. That might just blow your mind.I could go on and on about how people mame each other every day . But the point is if some one is intent on carrying out such an act . It's still going to happen The nuts will find a way.

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Muhamma... to Granite 2012/08/20 06:56:04

Yes. And many times guns turn good people into nuts!

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MikeB to Muhamma... 2012/09/01 15:55:54
rcardon 2012/08/01 15:37:53

No

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It's not the guns killing people, that's just the tool the persons doing the killing are choosing to use. People need to get that straight.
Restricting people's access to guns in an effort to reduce violent crime is like trying to reduce obese people's access to junk food in an effort to reduce the obesity epidemic, it doesn't work. It won't work. All reforming gun laws will do is take them out of the hands of law-abiding citizens, thus reducing their ability to protect themselves from those who obtain them illegally, and those that obtain them illegally will continue to do so, it won't stop them in the least.

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amoobrasil to rcardon 2012/08/23 01:41:44

Then, [sigh] for the millionth time, why do developed, more civilized countries have so much lower rates of death by firearm? And why does the NRA promote the gunshow loophole that allows the US to arm Mexican drug cartels?

Don't bother to respond. You already have your talking points. I expect no original thinking.

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rcardon to amoobrasil 2012/08/23 20:12:45

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I hate to tell you, but you show no original thinking either, by citing conspiracy theories and ill-founded death rate statistics.

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amoobrasil to rcardon 2012/08/23 23:10:58

I reject the assertion, of course, and--since, once more, you offer nothing but your word-- I'll do us both a favor and end this futile back-and-forth right here.

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JessicaPriest 2012/07/31 19:06:10

Other

Illegal or legal, there will always be a weapon if one so chooses to use one. It's sad to think what the world has come to.

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Bear 2012/07/31 00:09:54

No

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It is time for idiot control. Despite a few aberations such as Columbine and the Batman movie, crime has gone down in states that enacted right to carry laws.

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Groundskeeper Willy 2012/07/30 15:49:35

No

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the knee jerk reaction to create more gun laws, to mass casualty events such as Aurora, Virginia, Tech, Von Maur, Columbine, do not address the core issues of why events like these occur.

As a student of history, events such as this are modern phenomena, they did not occur prior to about the 1970s (post Gun Control Act of 1968.)

What has occurred? I see several things.
Decay of morality, we teach birth control in school, rather than concepts of right and wrong.
Educators aren't allowed to use corporal punishment in schools.
We've closed mental hospitals and facilities
Parents have raised children with a sense of entitlement and no consequences.

This is NOT about the implement of carnage. My daughter and son are avid hunters and trap shooters, they respect WHAT a gun can do. We do not take that respect lightly.

Kids like these crazies that go on a mass casualty game, see the world as a video game.

The safe guards that need to be restored to our school is ability for educators to put a butt thumping on these brats in Kindergarten before they become the next Dylan Klebold or Eric Harris, AND PARENTS need to take responsibility and DISCIPLINE their brats.

Most of us older then 50 knew what the belt across the ass feels like, and I tend to think if more parents to...

the knee jerk reaction to create more gun laws, to mass casualty events such as Aurora, Virginia, Tech, Von Maur, Columbine, do not address the core issues of why events like these occur.

As a student of history, events such as this are modern phenomena, they did not occur prior to about the 1970s (post Gun Control Act of 1968.)

What has occurred? I see several things.
Decay of morality, we teach birth control in school, rather than concepts of right and wrong.
Educators aren't allowed to use corporal punishment in schools.
We've closed mental hospitals and facilities
Parents have raised children with a sense of entitlement and no consequences.

This is NOT about the implement of carnage. My daughter and son are avid hunters and trap shooters, they respect WHAT a gun can do. We do not take that respect lightly.

Kids like these crazies that go on a mass casualty game, see the world as a video game.

The safe guards that need to be restored to our school is ability for educators to put a butt thumping on these brats in Kindergarten before they become the next Dylan Klebold or Eric Harris, AND PARENTS need to take responsibility and DISCIPLINE their brats.

Most of us older then 50 knew what the belt across the ass feels like, and I tend to think if more parents took their responsibility seriously we'd have less brats sitting in front of a 1st person shooter game on a practice run for the next event. Instead these kids should be riding bikes, playing tag, ditchum, hide and seek.

Sadly Politicians in and attempt to exercise more control, attempt to make hay out of these heinous events.

I believe if Theatres, Schools, and other "gun free zones" were eliminated, you would see less crime and likely a mass casualty situation would be abated before it got out of hand.
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amoobrasil to Grounds... 2012/08/23 01:43:19

And your solution is to relax further the access to guns so that people afflicted by these ills will be able to kill.

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Grounds... to amoobrasil 2012/08/31 18:34:33

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Contrary to what you may believe, the fact is that where gun laws allow for ownership, and personal protection, the homocide rate is lower than where laws are restrictive.
Deterrence of crime occurs in not knowing if someone will shoot back.
I believe "Gun Free Zones" Should be outlawed.

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amoobrasil to Grounds... 2012/08/31 21:27:50

This map shows otherwise: http://www.guardian.co.uk/new...

Goodle firearms and (JAMA OR CDC) and you will see just how lethal firearms are, especially to teens.

Also, would not Somalia or Mexico be the safest countries in the world since firearms became widely available in those countries?

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Werewolf 2012/07/29 14:54:25

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My answer was no. I agree we have plenty of Gun control laws. I have been around guns since I was 5 years old, but we were taught to respect them and realized early on that they were not toys.

This guy purchased the guns properly, I agree the ammo that he used should not be readibly available.

The thing I have learned throughout all my travels domestic and international is that if someone wants a gun they will find a way to get it.

I agree with the israel example, in the southwest most people have a gun in the house and in most of the area I have visited and lived crime is not as bad as the media make it out to be.

Again, we need to enforce the laws we have

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