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Michael Bloomberg anounces he'll spend $50 million to target the 2nd Amendment

By Robert Laurie ——--April 17, 2014

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Former New York City Mayor and radical left-wing bigwig, Michael Bloomberg, has a real problem with the 2nd Amendment. His long history of anti-gun activity is well established and his organization, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), has been at the forefront of the fight to eliminate your right to own a firearm.
For an idea of how much he hates the concept of private citizens owning their own guns, we need look no further than his organization's membership rolls. In a little more than a year, nearly 50 mayors have abandoned MAIG. In February one of Bloomberg's former MAIG allies, Poughkeepsie Mayor John Tkazyik, turned on him and offered a possible reason for the defections. He announced that the group's true goal was not "common sense reforms" but actual firearm confiscation. From Tkazyik's statement:
It did not take long to realize that MAIG's agenda was much more than ridding felons of illegal guns; that under the guise of helping mayors facing a crime and drug epidemic, MAIG intended to promote confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens. I don't believe, never have believed and never will believe that public safety is enhanced by encroaching on our right to bear arms, and I will not be a part of any organization that does.
Now, it looks like Michael Bloomberg is ready to drop some serious cash to make his utopian dreams a reality. The fatcat one-percenter has announced that he's dropping a massive $50 million to unite disparate gun control groups in an effort to wage war on the NRA. From the New York Times:
Michael R. Bloomberg, making his first major political investment since leaving office, plans to spend $50 million this year building a nationwide grass-roots network to motivate voters who feel strongly about curbing gun violence, an organization he hopes can eventually out-muscle the National Rifle Association. Mr. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, said gun control advocates need to learn from the N.R.A. and punish those politicians who fail to support their agenda — even Democrats whose positions otherwise align with his own. "They say, 'We don't care. We're going to go after you,'" he said of the N.R.A. "'If you don't vote with us we're going to go after your kids and your grandkids and your great-grandkids. And we're never going to stop.' " He added: "We've got to make them afraid of us."
Isn't it nice to see a political leader so desperate to instill fear in a group of law-abiding U.S. citizens? Bloomberg's new organization will carry the Thornton Wilder-esque moniker, "Everytown," and it will serve as an umbrella organization for a whole laundry list of anti-gun groups across the country. Perhaps even creepier than his totalitarian anti-2nd Amendment attitude is the fact that he feels his crusade against your freedoms carries a deep religious significance. According to the New York Times piece, the former mayor is, at 72, starting to feel his mortality. Fortunately, he thinks the smiling eyes of the Almighty are upon him. He's decided that God hates guns just as much as he does, and his fight has earned him a one way ticket to paradise.
"I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I'm not stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in heaven. It's not even close."
Yeah. Hubris is always a one-way ticket to eternal reward. Asked for comment, Bloomberg offered the following:

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