Bloomberg's group puts foot in it again.

[Dixie Gunsmithing]

Bloomberg's gun control group, (Mayors Against Illegal Guns), now says that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a victim of gun violence from the police. The NRA-ILA just reported it today, where the group said this at a rally, this week in Concord. You can find the story on the NRA-ILA website under "Outrage of the week".

http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/articles/2013/6/outrage-of-the-week-bloomberg-gun-control-group-claims-terrorist-was-victim-of-gun-violence.aspx

 

[Closing The Gap]

Someone with an extreme viewpoint not concerned with facts. Go figure...

 

[kilimanjaro]

It's even worse, according to the site.

While you're there, click on the grassroots button and write your reps about gun control, takes only 2 minutes.

 

[Evan Thomas]

They have since apologized.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20130620/NEWS06/130619117

The organizers of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns campaign on Wednesday apologized for including Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev among a list of shooting victims' names that were read during a demonstration in Concord on Tuesday.
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The gun control group put out a statement Wednesday saying rally organizers relied on a list compiled by Slate.com of people killed by guns since the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., "and his name was on the list."​

You'd think they could tell the difference between "people killed by guns" and "victims of gun violence"... and that someone might have gone over the list before they read it in public.

Moved to General Discussion. This isn't really an L&CR topic.

 

[g.willikers]

This group apparently is using NYC taxpayers to pay for their web site bill, too.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs...sor-bloomberg-s-gun-control-group_736932.html

 

[Bluestarlizzard]

Bloomburg's group puts foot in it again

Honestly, has their foot ever been out of it?

 

[Dixie Gunsmithing]

Vanya,

Sorry about posting in wrong place.

Anyhow, this does show how that group thinks, or doesn't think is more accurate.

I wonder if anyone ever compared the number of mayors in this group, to the total number of mayors in the US? Take a look at the percentage difference.

 

[Dixie Gunsmithing]

Taking that they are 19,429 municipal governments in the US (1), and that Mayors Against Illegal Guns has 522 members, listed as of 2009 (2), that is 1/37 th of the mayors, and not too big of a percentage, if one looks at it this way. A paltry sum, some might say.

(1)
http://www.citymayors.com/mayors/us-mayors.html

(2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayors_Against_Illegal_Guns

 

[44 AMP]

Why did they apologize at all? They were right. At least in a technical sense anyway. Everyone shot by the police is a victim of gun violence by the police. How could anyone dispute that?

However, by using that phrase, one normally associated with innocent people, it does create a false impression. My guess would be what they were really apologizing for was for getting caught creating a false impression. But that's just my opinion.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

My guess would be what they were really apologizing for was for getting caught creating a false impression. But that's just my opinion.

And mine.

 

[ChaperallCat]

it makes complete sense when you get to thinking about it, if the brady group can use 25 year olds killed while commiting armed felony crimes, then surely a terrorist killed by police during a high speed pursuit that involved said "victim" tossing homemade explosives at passing vehicles in their list.

 

[44 AMP]

I did find it enlightening when it was revealed that the numbers for "death of a child due to a handgun" included anyone under the age of 25, shot & killed with anything, by anyone (including those shot by the police).

These people have proven, time and time again that the truth doesn't matter to them. All that matters is something, taken at face value that supports their agenda. Even when caught in a bold face lie, all that ever happens is sometimes, we get an apology.

And usually, they go right on using the false data, as if nothing had ever happened. If they can't find a valid sounding statistic to mislead us with, they make one up. There seems to be no shortage of that...