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Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 11:21 PM Feb 2012

Mayor Bloomberg: You’d Think Giffords Shooting Would Have Started National Dialogue On Gun Control



VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/mayor-bloomberg-youd-think-giffords-shooting-would-have-started-national-dialogue-on-gun-control/


People should be expecting a surprising number of political ads during the Super Bowl tonight. And one of them was played on today’s Meet the Press, when host David Gregory asked New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg about a gun control ad he made with Thomas Menino. In the ad, Bloomberg and Menino admit they don’t agree on much (including which team to back in tonight’s game), but they do see eye-to-eye on the issue of gun safety. SNIP ...



Note to the other V&M Hosts: I've posted this OP here in the Video & Multimedia because it is a VIDEO and the Bloomberg story IS 'big news' which is posted in many place all over the internet

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Mayor Bloomberg: You’d Think Giffords Shooting Would Have Started National Dialogue On Gun Control (Original Post) Tx4obama Feb 2012 OP
You'd think a guy worth 19 billion or so quakerboy Feb 2012 #1
i love my guns Badsam Feb 2012 #2
You would have thought that Sherman A1 Feb 2012 #3
Heh. As long as Dems are the only ones being hunted, Doctor_J Feb 2012 #4

quakerboy

(13,918 posts)
1. You'd think a guy worth 19 billion or so
Sun Feb 5, 2012, 11:57 PM
Feb 2012

would have enough to buy a vocal interest in Ruger or S&W and change the discussion from inside the industry who's donations are such a big part of why there is no national dialogue. If he cared enough about the situation to do so.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
3. You would have thought that
Mon Feb 6, 2012, 05:05 AM
Feb 2012

the run up to invading Iraq would have stirred a much more vibrant national dialogue as well, but apparently it failed to do so.

 

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
4. Heh. As long as Dems are the only ones being hunted,
Mon Feb 6, 2012, 01:38 PM
Feb 2012

not much will change in the legislature or in Big media.

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