Mayor Michael Bloomberg Out of Touch with Ordinary Citizens

April 28, 2013

Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently showed, once again, how out of touch he is with people. You know, the 'ordinary' non-billionaire types.

"...I would argue if you want to sell your gun to your son, maybe you have a problem in your family,” he said.  “Why don't you just give—I don't know if you should have a gun or not, but if you have a commercial transaction of $100 with your son, there's something wrong in your family."

To Bloomberg, $100 is too little money to concern himself with and YOU and I have a problem if we do. I've known people who have gone without eating for lack of money to purchase food. I've known people who have sold their guns and other property to pay bills when times were particularly tough. I've known family members to lend and borrow with interest and to sell property to each other. I don't think it was their problem that they valued the cash more than the assets in their circumstances.

And where is Bloomberg finding $100 guns anyway? Do they exist? Sure, there are some priced that low. Those are the very same ones that gun control advocates have tried to ban in past years - cheap, inexpensive guns like "Saturday Night Specials". If I sell a $500-700 pistol or a $500-2500 rifle to my son or daughter for $100 that IS a gift. If I sell it for its value then it's just a sale for hundreds of percent more than Bloomberg's "there's something wrong in your family" threshold.

It must really be terrible to have Bloomberg's problems. Oh, wait, that's not what I meant. I meant it's really terrible to have Bloomberg as a problem. You know, like when he bans artificial trans fats, attempts to ban large sodas, intends to infringe upon that which "shall not be infringed", and attempts to hide cigarettes from view in retail stores. One might get the impression he thinks New York City is HIS city and that it's not enough for him, as shown by his personal involvement in national anti-smoking and anti-gun rights campaigns. We already know that ordinary citizens don't live in the same world as the rich. Bloomberg clearly wants to keep it that way - where personal freedom and civil liberties are determined for the masses by the few.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/bloomberg-if-you-sell-gun-your-son-theres-something-wrong-your-family

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57580744/new-york-city-mulls-proposal-to-increase-smoking-age-from-18-to-21/

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