PA Bill Number: HB335
Title: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons.
Description: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons. ...
Last Action: Removed from table
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Bloomberg: No 2nd Amendment for minorities :: 02/10/2015
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently said that firearm crime could be reduced by eliminating the 2nd Amendment rights of young minority populations in the U.S.
According to a report in the Aspen Times, Bloomberg told a gathering at the Aspen Institute Friday that “95 percent of murders fall into a specific category: male, minority and between the ages of 15 and 25.”
Keeping guns out of the hands of people in the group would save lives, the former mayor said.
“These kids think they’re going to get killed anyway because all their friends are getting killed,” Bloomberg said. “They just don’t have any long-term focus or anything. It’s a joke to have a gun. It’s a joke to pull a trigger.”
Bloomberg was often criticized as a supporter of racially charged policing during his mayoral tenure, largely because of the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices. The department received national attention over stop-and-frisk in 2011 with a bevy of complaints that minorities were stopped more often than whites.
During his speech Friday, Bloomberg recalled a New York Baptist minister’s remarks on the policy to defend the practice.
“While I’m sitting there waiting for him to introduce me, he said to his congregation, ‘You know, if every one of you stopped and frisked your kid before they went out at night, the mayor wouldn’t have to do it,’” Bloomberg said. “And so I knew I was going to be OK with that audience.”
The former NYC mayor also weighed in on poverty, education and drug policy during the event.
Bloomberg called marijuana reform “one of the stupider things that’s happening across our country.”
“What are we going to say in 10 years when we see all these kids whose IQs are 5 and 10 points lower than they would have been?” he asked. “I couldn’t feel more strongly about it, and my girlfriend says it’s no different than alcohol. It is different than alcohol.”
http://personalliberty.com/bloomberg-2nd-amendment-minorities/Connecticut
