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April 26, 2006
Criminals shooting 2 year-old kids don't kill 2 year-old kids. Gun rights supporters kill 2 year-old kids.
So says the Republican mayor of New York City, Mike Bloomberg. A two year-old boy named David Pacheco Jr. was killed Easter Sunday when thugs in the Bronx exchanged "hard looks" then "trashtalking and slaps," then accidentally shot David. On a far-off mental holiday Bloomberg responded yesterday by blaming politicians "who vote against getting guns off the street":
The only thing that would have helped that child is if we had the courage to stand up and get the guns off the street. And those who vote against getting guns off the street really are the ones as much responsible as the shooter, because if the shooter didn't have a gun, that child would still be alive.
CJ Blogger Gadsden Flag notes, "They never want to address why these tragic shootings most often take place in places like NYC, DC, LA, Chicago, etc. which have the strictest gun control laws, and not in places like Vermont, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Kentucky, etc. with so-called "easy availability" of guns. There's obviously no correlation between availability and criminal use (except for possibly an inverse correlation), but if they couldn't blame the guns, they'd have to start looking at the people."
Posted by bill at April 26, 2006 04:05 PM
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