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NYPD wounding bystanders

usmcmustang

usmcmustang

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When a reporter asked Mayor Bloomberg whether the police had acted appropriately by shooting an armed murder suspect, he angrily replied, “Let me ask you this, if somebody pointed a gun at you and you had a gun in your pocket, what would you do? I think that answers the question.” Bloomberg indirectly makes a very important point. The phrase “gun violence” gets tossed around quite a bit, but there’s a problem–the expression blurs the distinction between the use of a gun for self-defense and the use of a gun to commit a crime, such as theft, rape, and murder.

Mayor Bloomberg regularly advocates gun control measures, but according to his statements to the reporter, he’ll support your right to use a gun in self-defense, but, curiously, put you in jail should "you have a gun in your pocket." Hmm.
 
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usmcmustang said:
When a reporter asked Mayor Bloomberg whether the police had acted appropriately by shooting an armed murder suspect, he angrily replied, “Let me ask you this, if somebody pointed a gun at you and you had a gun in your pocket, what would you do? I think that answers the question.” Bloomberg indirectly makes a very important point. The phrase “gun violence” gets tossed around quite a bit, but there’s a problem–the expression blurs the distinction between the use of a gun for self-defense and the use of a gun to commit a crime, such as theft, rape, and murder.

Mayor Bloomberg regularly advocates gun control measures, but according to his statements to the reporter, he’ll support your right to use a gun in self-defense, but, curiously, put you in jail should "you have a gun in your pocket." Hmm.
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I would have replied:

"I'd get murdered, because thanks to you and your predecessors, I CAN'T have a gun in my pocket, and being of lesser value as a human being than you, I don't have a phalanx of armed bodyguards behind which to hide."

Talk about a "Kodak moment"...
 
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