Michael Bloomberg: After Colorado shooting, soothing words not enough

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Politico:

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the nation’s highest-profile supporters of gun control, said Friday that “soothing words are nice ” but demanded that the presidential candidates “stand up and tell us what they’re going to do about” preventing mass shootings.

Asked about the shootings at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater showing “The Dark Knight Rises” that killed at least 12 people, Bloomberg said President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney need to offer specific policy proposals, in addition to prayers and sympathy.

“Soothing words are nice,” Bloomberg said during a regularly scheduled appearance on WOR 710 AM in New York. “But maybe it’s time the two people who want to be president of the United States stand up and tell us what they’re going to do about it, because this is obviously a problem across the country. And everybody always says, ‘Isn’t it tragic?’”

“I mean, there’s so many murders with guns every day,” Bloomberg continued. “It’s just gotta stop. And instead of these two people, President [barack] Obama and Governor [Mitt] Romney talking in broad things about, they want to make the world a better place. OK, tell us how. And this is a problem. No matter where you stand on the Second Amendment, no matter where you stand on guns, we have a right to hear from both of them, concretely, not just in generalities, specifically, what are they going to do about guns?”

In a interview with CBS’s Bob Schieffer set to air Sunday on “Face the Nation,” the mayor called for Romney and Obama to be “held accountable.”

“And I don’t know what they’re going to do, but I think it’s incumbent on them to tell us specifically,” Bloomberg said in the interview taped Friday. “Not just in broad terms. You know, Gov. Romney, when he was governor of Massachusetts, actually passed a ban on assault weapons. And President Obama, when he came into office in 2008, said he would reinstitute the ban … the federal ban on assault weapons. The governor has apparently changed his views, and the president has spent the last three years trying to avoid the issue, or if he’s facing it, I don’t know of anybody who’s seen him face it. And it’s time for both of them to be called, held accountable.”

“You know, we spend all our time talking about tax returns and gaffes and things like that. This is one of those issues, along with a handful of others, that really matter to the American public,” he added.

Meanwhile, in his Friday radio interview, Bloomberg went on to suggest most of the nation’s governors should also make their stances clear, and said the problem wasn’t limited to major cities like New York.

“This is killing people every day,” he said. “And it’s growing. And it’s not just an inner city, East Coast, West Coast, big city phenomenon. Aurora is not a big city, it’s a suburb of Denver. … The murder rate in the rural areas is as just as bad, if not worse than the murder rate in the urban areas.”

But while the problem is nation-wide, he also said it was uniquely American.

“I don’t think there’s any other developed country in the world that has remotely the problem we have,” Bloomberg said. “There’s no other place that allows — we have more guns than people in this country. Every place else, if there are murders, they’re generally not done with guns.”

________

 

And thus the attacks on the Second Amendment begin...

[Valin]

@Geee

 

This is killing people every day,” he said. “And it’s growing. And it’s not just an inner city, East Coast, West Coast, big city phenomenon. In 2010 30,196 of died every single day by automobiles something must be done about this.

 

 

[NCTexan]

Where is the liberal outcry to ban Hollywood movie and TV violent productions?

 

 

We need an Oscar Free Zone now!