Why Bloomberg is wrong about gun control:

New York’s midget dictator went on a rhetorical rampage,  writing an article atBloomberg.com (where else) in which he includes these words:

Nonlicensed sellers, however, are not required to perform federal background checks, and as much as 40 percent of gun sales slip through this loophole. Criminals and the deranged can buy guns simply by logging on to the Internet or visiting a gun show -- and they do, every day. Stopping them requires background checks for every gun sale, a change strongly supported by major law enforcement organizations, as well as gun owners and NRA members. But not the NRA’s leadership.

The NRA is a $200 million-plus-a-year lobbying juggernaut, with much of its funding coming from gun manufacturers and merchandising. More than anything, the NRA is a marketing organization, and its flagship product is fear. Gun sales jumped after Obama was elected president, based on the absurd -- and now demonstrably false -- fear that he would seek to ban guns.

The Midget Mayor has no clue what he is talking about and like all radical Leftists,  he resorts to simply making up his facts.  The "40%" he mentions,  guns purchased in private sales without benefit of any background check,  is a Bloomberg number. He invented the number.   Are guns purchased in such a venue?  Of course,  but nearly all of those guns are bought and sold within the punk gangster  community and the purchase percentage is closer to 15% than the mayor's dream number.  In fact,  if you take gang-on-gang murder out of the equation, we have a greater chance of dying via drowning than by gun violence. 

Stop to think about it.  When was the last time you actually knew someone killed by a gun in the hands of a law abiding citizen?    When was the last mass murder committed by illegally purchased guns?  Not at V Tech;  not at Columbine;  not at Fort Hood and not last week in Colorado.  You cannot take a gun outside your home in Chicago and it leads the nation in gun violence.  In 2005,  the assault weapons ban expired.  Since then,  gun violence,  already on the decline,  has continued fall.  Washington DC is another example of a city with very strict gun laws,  at one time there was an absolute ban on gun ownership.  Five years ago,  the ban was deemed "unconstitutional" by the High Court, but during the ban years,  DC led the nation in gun violence. 

Bloomberg, in attacking the NRA,  ignores this fact:  it is not the NRA politicians fear, it is the will of the people ---  something Bloomberg despises.  I am surprised that this little billionaire elitist even knows how to write.  He certainly does not know how to think as an American Founder. 

More than this,  in stating "40%" as a matter of [invented] fact,  Bloomberg is admitting that 60% (and I believe the percentage is closer to 85%) of illegal guns are not purchased online or at private gun sales.  His suggestion solves NOTHING because,  like most liberal ideas,  his solution deals in pure fantasy.