Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, December 12, 2009 11:55:20 AM
After a shooting in downtown New York between a street vendor and the police,
Mayor Bloomberg got to get on his soap box about illegal guns. It is not clear how the guy got the gun, but if guns were made illegal clearly there would be no violence, at least in Bloombergs reality.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg was asked about the shooting while appearing at a Manhattan charity event and used the chance to discuss one of his signature issues -- illegal firearms and gun violence in New York and other big cities.
"We've got to stop this," Bloomberg said. "This is one of the great public health threats. And our police officers are clearly in danger."
Guns are a public health threat in Bloomberg's eyes; not the lunatic gunman. Just another flawed arguement about how if we took the gun away, people wouldn't do awful things with them. And in some ways he is right. There would be less 'gun' violence. But clearly, there would would be more knife violence, baseball bat violence, and whatever else that could be used as a weapon. Twist it any way you want, but Bloomberg seems to be missing the point, as some many people are who want to take your guns. Guns don't kill people, people kill people. Seems cliche, but it is still the truth.