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By Robert Ringer - Wednesday, July 29, 2009
By Robert Ringer
Here’s the question of the day: Is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg stupid or just plain crazy? In criticizing gun laws that allow people to actually exercise their Second Amendment rights and carry a concealed weapon, Bloomberg said, “[Criminals will] be able to go to the movies with guns, and there will be nothing that our police officers can do about it.”
Mayor, I hate to break the news to you, but criminals already do carry concealed weapons — and, you’re right, there’s nothing police officers can do about it. Here’s the Duh Factor: In states where carrying concealed weapons is illegal, the only people who don’t carry them are law-abiding citizens.
I was glad to hear Glenn Beck respond by saying that he went to the movies last weekend and had a concealed weapon with him. Which means that if some nut had started to shoot up the theater, Beck would have had a chance to take him out before he killed everyone in the place.
As to the question of the day, let’s be honest here. We know that Bloomberg has made far too much money to be either stupid or crazy. He is just more living proof of what I have been saying for decades: In analyzing political and social issues, intelligence doesn’t carry the day.
For reasons that are completely unknown to me, when it comes to political issues (e.g., stimulating the economy), social issues (e.g., global warming), and, in particular, ideological issues (e.g., LIBERTY!), many people think with their arses.
Which raises a scary question: Could it be that some people’s brains are actually located in that sensitive area of their anatomy? And, if so, what happens when they undergo, say, a hemorrhoidectomy?
Let’s hope Mayor Bloomberg will never have to find out the answer to that question. Al Gore, yes. Mayor Bloomberg, no.
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Opinions flow from doctrine, and in politics doctrine flows from what politicians think their constituents support or opppose. Bloomberg is the mayor of New York City; you don’t even need a poll to determine where the majority stand on the 2nd Amendment there.
I believe the word is pandering. Yes, even Republicans do it.