“Former New
York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ramped up his efforts to fight gun violence on
Wednesday with a plan to spend $50 million on a grassroots network to organize
voters on gun control… Bloomberg's group, called Every Town for Gun Safety, will
focus on state and local lawmakers, ‘corporate boards, and state and federal
elections - fields of play formerly occupied almost solely by the gun lobby,’
according to a statement” (Former
New York Mayor Bloomberg to spend $50 million in anti-gun drive).
Imagine if
anti-gun billionaire Bloomberg spent $50 million to focus on the causes of
urban crime, such as mental illness, poverty, unemployment, and illiteracy.
Moreover, imagine “focusing action on crime and anti-social behavior hotspots,
repeat victims, and prolific or high volume offenders” instead of lobbying
prodigiously with affluence for more gun control for law-abiding citizens who
own legal guns (Debating
Gun Control and Illinois Conceal Carry).
A righteous,
delusional billionaire is throwing his money at organizing voters on gun
control. But why?
It appears
that Bloomberg believes regulation of nonviolent citizens, who are proficient
in handling a weapon, will reduce urban crime, even though depriving upstanding
citizens’ constitutional right of self-defense against felons will not prevent
violent crimes (The
Folly of More Restrictions...).
Seemingly,
Bloomberg also believes that exorbitantly funding the control of guns, aimed at peaceable
citizens, will diminish criminal behaviors, even though channeling millions of
dollars for gun control legislation will not deter criminals or deranged
terrorists from obtaining and using illegal weapons (A
Letter to a Friend about Gun Control).
“Bloomberg
detailed his plans in an interview with the New York Times published Monday — in
which he predicted his crusades
against guns, smoking, and obesity would serve him well in the afterlife” (Business
Insider).
“In his own
words: ‘I am telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I’m not
stopping to be interviewed. I am heading straight in. I have earned my place in
heaven. It’s not even close’” (Michael
Bloomberg Is Starting a Gun Control Organization to take on the NRA).
Oddly
reminiscent of Illinois Governor Pat Quinn’s grandiose delusion: “I know that I
was put on earth to get [pension reform] done”; evidently, Bloomberg thinks he
can buy his way into a “heaven” that confusingly depends upon a belief in a monotheistic
“God” and, of course, that perplexing pre-interview at the porthole of the
so-called “pearly gates.”
I once heard “It [was] easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a
rich man to enter the kingdom of God” (Matthew 19. 24). However, that's a different issue of control, isn't it?
