Bloomberg – Everytown for Gun Safety

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Michael Bloomberg plans to spend 50 million dollars this year through a new group he has created called Everytown for Gun Safety. The group plans to target primarily pro-gun states and focus a lot of their efforts on women. Bloomberg stated, “You've got to work at it piece by piece, one mom and another mom. You've got to wear them down until they finally say, 'Enough.”

So, if you live in a gun friendly state and were feeling pretty good about things take notice. The strategy of targeting women is probably a good one, but I wonder if he might be underestimating the ability of women to make rational decisions on their own.

Anyway, it might be time to send off a little donation to the NRA or a local gun rights group.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/15/us/bloomberg-gun-safety-initiative/

http://everytown.org/
 
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It MAY be a good strategy, but I see way too many Ladies Nights and Womens Introductory Classes etc. to get doom and gloom over it. The women's side of the sport has increased exponentially lately. Pink this, Tiffany pistols.
 
His agenda is fairly predictable:

  • Closing "loopholes" that supposedly allow criminals and the mentally unstable to buy guns. This is only enforceable through total registration, and even then, it won't work. What's more, the public doesn't want it.
  • Keeping guns from domestic abusers. We already have a law that does that, and in a very heavy-handed way. In fact, it was sponsored by Bloomberg's friend, Frank Lautenberg.
  • Educating parents about safe storage and responsible gun ownership. There's already an organization that's been doing that for 150 years, and they've been very effective. They're called the NRA.
  • Stronger "trafficking laws" to "give law enforcement the tools they need to crack down on criminals." Again, we already have laws against trafficking. They're not being enforced. We don't need new laws; we need prosecutors to start doing their jobs.

At the end of the day, he doesn't have the 1.5 million members he claims. Nor will his $50 million investment gain him the clout he wants.
 
The 'conservative' Joe Scarborough opined this is a good strategy as he will enlist conservative moms who understand hunting and thus the gun culture. The hunting conservative mom will of course be in favor of Bloomberg's ideas.

When Bloomberg says that he wants to promote safety, etc. AND he supports:

1. Shall issue laws
2. Understands why the defense against tyranny necessitates not having AR, AK, mag capacity bans, etc.

then - maybe I might see a discussion of mental health reporting or whatever. But his goal is the elimination of private firearms ownership except for rich dude duck guns and allowing some of the primitives in the country to 'hunt'.

Pro-gun Joe S. - a Bloomberg fun, once said that he saw no need for a 30 round clip of cop killer bullets to take his son hunting. Joe really understands the gun culture!:mad:
 
It's good for us that he keeps creating group after group. It weakens the brand recognition of each of them, and makes the previously-created groups de facto failures...if they were succeeding, why did you need to create a new one? Meanwhile, the NRA is still the NRA, and by not diluting their brand, they'll continue to be recognized as a "real" player in the space.

Also, I agree with the thinking on women. I believe most will find his pandering quite insulting, and it will backfire. Time will tell...
 
He's just trying to stay in the limelight after leaving public office. Spending 50 mil to buy publicity is worth it to him.
 
When I did my CCW class,The instructor told us that women are Gaining on the men for getting a CCW. More and more are doing it each year. PS- Bloomberg- They are Mothers--Good luck with that one.
 
Bloomberg is another classic example of a rich guy trying to force his agenda on others. It is like he feels inadequate because he found something his money cannot buy. Like a spoiled little rich boy who wants something he can't have.
 
Bloomberg may be another classic example of a rich man forcing his agenda. The difference is he won't be vilified by the main stream press for using his money to push a political agenda. He will be a hero because he cares so much. Let a rich conservative like maybe the Koke brothers spend their money for a political agenda and watch the vile garbage fly.
 
It is like he feels inadequate because he found something his money cannot buy. Like a spoiled little rich boy who wants something he can't have.
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I worked in DC for about two decades. You would be very wrong to assume money can't buy practically anything.

50 million in a year can be highly effective. It certainly can be used to develop other donors, create real grass roots and astro turf, leverage social media, push the needle a few points in key contested campaigns, and fund more biased but public affairs effective academic work.

I think people who are lackadaisical about supporting the NRA have no idea how much worse gun control can get -- and will get -- if we don't strongly support our side in this.
 
The devil is always in the details !!!

These guys do more to promote gun sales that anyone I know. Hate to do it but going to have to wear my new NRA cap all the time. I will also attend any local meetings, wearing it. I want to see who attends as well as know where I stand. ..... ;)

My wife is Pro-2a and after seeing this bit on the news, she said that back ground checks didn't sound all that bad. I told her that we already have them and then proceeded to explain their agenda and what it means. She now understands and hopes everyone else will see the truth. .... ;)

Be Wise and;
Be Safe !!!
 
If there was that kind of groundswell support just waiting to be organized, it ALREADY would have come together around existing organizations and Bloomberg could keep his $50m. Instead, there isn't, it didn't, and he won't because he knows he can't get that money from a wide base.

Should we remain vigilant? Sure. Money can buy a lot. But it can't directly purchase votes... it can buy advertising, but that advertising and social media movement has been given a hard push in the very recent past and it got absolutely nowhere.
 
These bozos were in Austin yesterday -- and in several other cities, according to the piece in the local fishwrap. I don't see anything new in their agenda and I can't picture it being effective. Bloomberg has to be involved in telling everybody how to live in order to feel important and useful.
 
I’ve attached a link to an opinion piece that Bloomberg authored for CNN. The article includes much of the same misinformation and half-truths that we’ve come to expect. However, it also sounds like someone who is serious about what he’s doing and at least claiming some level of success.

I think we do ourselves and future generations a disservice by dismissing this guy as just some bored rich guy. Bloomberg is a true believer and we shouldn’t take these initiatives for granted.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/17/opinion/bloomberg-watts-gun-control-initiative/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
 
In the article linked above, check out the photo posted by Moms For Gun Safety, with the little girl holding an AR with her finger on the trigger. What kind of safety practices are they supposed to be advocating?
 
I think people who are lackadaisical about supporting the NRA have no idea how much worse gun control can get -- and will get -- if we don't strongly support our side in this.
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Bloomberg is very serious about gun control. Look for him to enlist well known figures like SCOTUS justice Stevens for his cause.

A failure of gunowners to get organized and contribute to gun rights organizations until it hurts could lead to gun control like you never dreamed of.
 
Have you looked at CCW purse sales? I think he is off his mark a bit.
Pink guns seem to sell well enough they keep making them and none of the female shooters I am acquainted with own them.
 
yes, he is a true believer. Considering the fact that while Mayor, he had people working for him breaking laws to buy guns out of state and send them to his beloved city proves he is willing to ignore (break) existing law to "prove" his point of view.

His wealth and position give him practical immunity from things that would have lesser folk such as you and I up on charges.

The fact that he has more money in petty cash than I will see in my entire lifetime does not give him the moral authority to tell me how to live my life, or what property I can own, or how to store it.

It may give him the practical ability to do that, by buying enough people, but that doesn't give him the right, merely the ability.
 
He sure is devious. His Facebook page looks like a grassroots pro-gun group:
https://www.facebook.com/Everytownforgunsafety

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