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Mayor Bloomberg, who periodically bucks the Republican system, gave what was for him and impassioned speech in Washington regarding the House's recent sneaky move to include pro-gun legislation in a bill. At issue is a bill that protects gun manufacturers and gun dealers from civil suits (NYC has pursued this avenue in an attempt to cut into the huge number of illegal guns on city streets).
Bloomberg declared the Republican-drafted bill “coddles criminals and endangers police officers and citizens,” and also that the legislation would further protect the criminal from implicating the gun dealer. Bloomberg went on to say that “The next time an officer is attacked by an illegal gun - and I say next time because until Congress gets serious about illegal guns, more police officers and many more citizens will be murdered,” and that “There can be no denying that those who vote for this bill will bear some of the responsibility.”
While some may not see his trip to Washington as enough (the very far left is already bemoaning this trip), others see it as a slap in the Republican face (Tom Feeney, Rep., Florida). It seems quite likely that this bill will pass and that, like other such legislation written and passed in the dark of night, we will all be regretting later.
THe gun lobby is certainly not happy about a Republican with such a high-dollar profile asking for evsiceration of their carefully crafted, self-preserving bill.
Who loses here? The millions of Americans who are victims of gun-related crimes, the vast majority of these crimes committed by criminals with illegally obtained guns.
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bloomberg, gun control, gun lobby
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Posted on 3/29/2006
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