Bloomberg Speaks On Guns. Guns Are NOT The Problem, It's The Nut Who Pulls The Trigger!

Uber-Liberal Michael Bloomberg Gets in Over His Head Talking about Guns and Race

On February 5th, Michael Bloomberg spoke at the Aspen Institute, and some of his remarks were inflammatory. The anti-Second Amendment crusader and former New York mayor talked about a number of subjects, including gun control and the legalization of marijuana. His comments about guns, crime and minorities have raised a furor and charges of racism. Consequently, Bloomberg asked that the Aspen Institute block video of the speech.

As reported in IJReview, audio of his comments was obtained by the Daily Caller:

It’s controversial, but first thing is all of your — 95 percent of your murders, and murderers, and murder victims fit one [unintelligible]. You can just take the description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all of the cops. They are male, minorities, 15 to 25. That’s true in New York, it’s true in virtually every city in America.

You’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of the people getting killed. First thing you can do to help that group is to keep them alive.

It’s all the same group. Nobody in New York gets murdered — if you get murdered the first thing you want to do is [ask] “what were you selling or who are your family members.” Because it just has to be you’re a drug dealer or you [unintelligible] a family quarrel. There’s just no other kind of murder whatsoever.

Unsurprisingly, Bloomberg’s comments have not been covered by most of the mainstream media.

Two years ago, conservative commentator Ann Coulter made a similar statement about guns and minorities:

If you compare white populations, we have the same murder rate as Belgium. So perhaps it’s not a gun problem, it is a demographic problem, which liberals are the ones who are pushing, pushing, pushing.

In Coulter’s case, ABC, CNN, and many other news outlets published stories lambasting her remarks.