Daily Archives: August 3, 2007

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Michael Bloomberg should be in jail.

I really didn’t pay much attention to this guy until recently. He’s the mayor of New York, and judging from his actions, a publicity-chasing, self-aggrandizing meathead pursuing a personal vendetta for political gain.

He’s decided that the high rates of gun crime in New York have nothing to do with a largely incompetent police force, a failing educational system, the staggering disparity between the very rich and the very poor, or the fact that law-abiding citizens are robbed of the right to self-defense. Nope, he claims that it’s due to a flood of weapons being purchased in other states and trucked in.

In order to bolster his political ego rid his fine city of crime, he’s taken to suing gun dealers in other states.

“Wow,” you might think, “doesn’t that cross all sorts of jurisdictional lines? Doesn’t it trample States’ Rights? Isn’t this way beyond his authority or scope?”

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