Former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg reinvents himself as the face of the \u201cgun control\u201d movement.\u00a0 Unhappy with the weak results of his Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action, he tries to create a \u201cgrassroots movement\u201d from the top down.<\/p>\n
Hilarity ensues.<\/p>\n
Gun owners\u2019 civil rights advocate Miguel Gonzalez is an \u00e9migr\u00e9 from Latin America. He has seen first-hand how registration flows into confiscation and then into tyranny, \u00a0citing Cuba and Venezuela. His commentary on Bloomberg and the anti-gun movement in general can be found here: http:\/\/gunfreezone.net\/wordpress\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n My friend Dave Workman at Second Amendment Foundation has well chronicled how American gun owners \u2013 being sufficiently technically oriented to qualify as a nerd stronghold \u2013 took a quick step ahead of the antis and usurped Bloomberg\u2019s \u201cEverytown\u201d theme.\u00a0 Find one such chronicle here: http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/exclusive-how-true-grassroots-activists-bested-bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n Backwoods Home\u2019s <\/i>own Clair Wolfe blogs Bloomberg here: \u00a0http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2014\/04\/20\/blooming-dishonesty<\/a>. Be sure to follow the link to her timely essay on the topic for our friends at Jews for Preservation of Firearms Ownership<\/a>.<\/p>\n I expect the hilarity to continue.\u00a0 Miggy Gonzales put it best, I think, when he explained that even fifty million dollars worth of fake Astroturf still ain\u2019t gonna qualify as \u201cgrassroots.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg reinvents himself as the face of the \u201cgun control\u201d movement.\u00a0 Unhappy with the weak results of his Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action, he tries to create a \u201cgrassroots movement\u201d from the top down. Hilarity ensues. Gun owners\u2019 civil rights advocate Miguel Gonzalez is an \u00e9migr\u00e9 from Latin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights","8":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}