Last year he made 5Billion, 12 million is nothing to this master of the nanny state.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announces $12 million television ad campaign meant to pressure senators into backing gun control efforts, including comprehensive background checks.
If your state is on the chopping block, beware. Bloomberg’s money travels faster and hits harder than you may be able to comprehend. Just ask those of us in CO if you dont believe me…
Anyone seen the ad? It is pretty much exploiting the differences between fudds/hunters and sport/defensive/tactical shooters.
This is the time that we all need to stand together and put aside petty and stupid differences between our communities. An outsider is attacking – we need to keep the wagons circled.
I think most of the readership of this forum understands this; it largely seems to be the fudds who don’t.
The only problem is, at least according to a recent Pew Poll, hunters and fudds comprise just over a quarter of the gun-owning public in the US. Defensive/“tactical” shooters are nearly half, with sport shooters being a fairly small minority.
I’m not arguing that we should uncircle the wagons and carry on, nor am I arguing that the fudds and hunters leaving won’t leave a big gap in the laager, but if they do, it won’t represent as much of a loss of force as we might fear (or that Bloomberg might hope).
I think that is what the Bloombergs and alike fear most. The fact that the hard-line gun culture is becoming more and more mainstream with each passing year.
LaPierre did pretty good today. Now how many will hear it… who knows. As he told David Gregory, you guys are not going to report the facts… that laws are not being enforced and only non-criminals will have their names check.
It’s not universal when you leave the criminals out of the process.
I’m a lifetime member, certified instructor, recruit new members, and very pro NRA. That said, I wish the NRA had produced a multimillion dollar ad campaign FIRST. Now, and as often we find ourselves, we must counter-offensive or at least produce some defensive media efforts.
Did hunters come out against the anti gun laws or mostly stay home?I could see how someone who hunts Elk and Deer with a bolt gun might say “so what,it doesn’t effect me”.
Myself I think a bolt action hunting rifle could easily become a Sniper Rifle some day.
My brother-in-law big elk hunter in CO, is pro AWB. His son and I have been working on him, but haven’t changed his mind. Jim is a veteran and probably never voted for a dem in his life, but certainly is pro AWB and against hi-capacity magazines. His come back is: it only takes one shot. Doubt we will ever change his mind.
Friggin discouraging.
Edit - forgot to add: maybe with the nanny mayor now crisscrossing the country harping on AWB, Jim might see the light. Have to work on that angle!
If it only takes one shot, you don’t need a repeater. And if you’re not using a repeater, you sure won’t have time to load a second shell. And if you’re not loading a second shell, there’s no sense using metallic self-contained cartridges.
Assume you are being facetious or just as frustrated as I and his son are. As a eleven bang-bang, he had an ASI and his motto was one-shot-one-kill.
Of course he doesn’t CCW, he doesn’t see the need. That is the mentality if we are to win, we need to conquer. Facetious will not win the battle and or more importantly the war. For those of us who love our freedom to shoot whatever we want, we need to first conquer the doubters.
