Second Amendment Supporters Respond to Bloomberg’s Anti-gun Ad Campaign
According to the Daily News, New York City’s multi-millionaire mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun-grabbing mayors group is dropping a cool quarter-million dollars for an ad campaign, including one in Colorado, to pimp Bloomberg-supported federal legislation to close the alleged “gun show loophole.” But it is not all smooth sailing
Last Tuesday (April 20) Denver defense attorney Jeralyn Merrit wrote that, “for the first time since 2002″ she had rejected putting an ad on her excellent criminal justice and political blog, TalkLeft.com. So what made her reject the ad? According to Jeralyn:
It was an ad for gun control, that began in big letters, “Keep Guns Out of the Hands of Criminals” and urged people to support new laws on sales at gun shows. Given the focus of this blog, to protect the rights of those accused of crime and particularly, constitutional rights, I would have recoiled every time I logged on to my own blog. So, even though it would have paid for TalkLeft’s hosting service for a full month (no small amount since we’re on our own server), I rejected it.
Way to stick to your guns, Jeralyn.
The Denver Post, on the other hand, had no problem taking an ad for Bloomberg’s bad gun bill.
Check out Independence Institute Research Director and Second Amendment scholar Dave Kopel in Saturday’s Denver Post in response to a full-page ad the Post ran urging Senator Mark Udall to get on-board the Bloomberg bandwagon. Writes Kopel:
According to the ad, the Bloomberg bill would nationalize Colorado’s rule about background checks at gun shows. But in fact, only a small fraction of the Bloomberg bill addresses the issue of background checks. The rest of the bill has a much more aggressive agenda.
Check out the whole thing here.
