Civil Rights

Hoplophobia Run Amok

It's a well-established fact that Michael Bloomberg has an inflated ego, but not even Michael Bloomberg can produce enough hot air to float a lead balloon. But, he keeps trying.

Speaking to the Aspen Institute on February 6, Michael Bloomberg said cities should ban young minority males from owning guns, both as an effort to reduce crime and to keep those minority males “alive.”

Notice that he says the cities should be the ones to restrict the civil rights of its citizens. What if one of those minority males is a law-abiding citizen that needs a gun to protect themselves from those outlaws that Michael Bloomberg scorns?

“It’s always the poor that get screwed,” said the founder of Bloomberg L.P.

Yup!

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