{"id":3059,"date":"2015-02-08T21:44:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T01:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2015-02-08T21:44:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T01:44:22","slug":"bloomberg-shows-true-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/bloomberg-shows-true-colors\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOOMBERG \u201cSHOWS TRUE COLORS\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve been reading Backwoods Home <\/em>magazine and blogs for a while, you\u2019ve seen me and others point out the incontrovertible fact that so-called \u201cgun control\u201d in our country stemmed largely from whites wanting to disarm blacks in the post-Civil War years.<\/p>\n

The man who wants to be the lead advocate of citizen disarmament, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, has apparently come out of the closet in the last few days with his take on the subject,\u00a0posted here<\/a>\u00a0and quoted below:<\/p>\n

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Moderator Jennifer Bradley, director of the Center for Urban Innovation at the Institute, then asked what the U.S. can do to get people out of poverty. Bloomberg responded that conventional wisdom points to education, but education isn\u2019t going to help uneducated adults. Bradley later asked how government can offer basic fairness to the children \u201cwho have been failed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bloomberg claimed that 95 percent of murders fall into a specific category: male, minority and between the ages of 15 and 25. Cities need to get guns out of this group\u2019s hands and keep them alive, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese kids think they\u2019re going to get killed anyway because all their friends are getting killed,\u201d Bloomberg said. \u201cThey just don\u2019t have any long-term focus or anything. It\u2019s a joke to have a gun. It\u2019s a joke to pull a trigger.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Note that the Aspen publication where it first appeared buried it amidst a story on Bloomberg\u2019s diatribe against legalization of marijuana. Let\u2019s see how long it takes the mainstream media to publicize Mr. Bloomberg\u2019s profile of certain groups who, he thinks, should be preemptively stripped of their rights. (Hmmm\u2026teens into mid-twenties? Doesn\u2019t that cover a helluva lot of young black American men who\u2019ve fought and died for their country?)\u00a0 It\u2019ll be interesting to hear Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and Eric Holder comment on this, too\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve been reading Backwoods Home magazine and blogs for a while, you\u2019ve seen me and others point out the incontrovertible fact that so-called \u201cgun control\u201d in our country stemmed largely from whites wanting to disarm blacks in the post-Civil War years. The man who wants to be the lead advocate of citizen disarmament, billionaire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","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=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/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=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}