Thursday, August 14, 2014

Captain Ahab harpoons himself

Michael Bloomberg – self-appointed scourge of the Second Amendment – spared no expense in trying to defeat a pro-gun sheriff in a Democratic primary, and received yet another comeuppance. C.W. Cooke writes:
There is something of Captain Ahab about Michael Bloomberg these days — the former mayor of New York having adopted the profile of a neurotic and fevered old man whose long and checkered career has not yet managed to sate him, and whose ambition will be truly realized only when, finally, he captures his whale and avenges his bruised ego. Alas, yesterday evening, in Milwaukee, Wis., satisfaction eluded him once again, that Milwaukee County’s Sheriff David Clarke — an outspoken apostle of the right to keep and bear arms, and opponent of all that Bloomberg holds dear — winning his primary and overcoming a concerted and expensive attempt to unseat him. This one, Bloomberg had said through an intermediary, was “personal.” One suspects that the loss will be taken hard.
Unfortunately, not hard enough to persuade this monomaniac to throw in the towel on gun control. Bloomberg won’t be content until the only people who carry weapons are policemen and criminals. And if this scenario ever becomes reality, I will not grieve overmuch if he is the first person shot in the crossfire.

5 comments:

rinardman said...

Bloomberg won’t be content until the only people who carry weapons are policemen and criminals.

If by "carry", you mean "own", the latter may be a very large group.

DavefromTacoma said...

"Bloomberg won’t be content until the only people who carry weapons are policemen and criminals."

Paco, you forgot a third category. That would be Bloomberg's security detail. You better believe his bodyguards are armed. Of course he'll tell you that, as a billionaire and a former NYC mayor, he's entitled to armed protection, unlike all the rest of us plebes. Please tell me whose house/mansion is more likely to be broken into at two in the morning. It ain't Mike's, believe me.

bruce said...

As I don't live in the US, no one's going to call me a bigot if I ask why those who don't like the place aren't going somewhere else?

Big wide world, something for everyone. Sitting in a place you disapprove of trying to 'change' it seems perverse. And they aren't even going to help victims of gun-toting criminals who don't obey the law anyway.

Steve Burri said...

Lots of Republicans and Conservatives crossed over to vote for Sheriff Clarke. And since he is a Democrat we made sure that lots of dead people voted for him, too!

Paco said...

Steve: That's only fair!