The Best Tyranny Money Can Buy

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a coalition of 214 mayors are using the Virginia Tech massacre to pressure Congress to give local cops the information they need to trace illegal guns used in crimes.

CBS 2 has also learned that they're also launching a TV ad campaign starting Sunday...

The ads are funded by Bloomberg, who said he will personally spend whatever it takes to stop a bill that would allow the feds to withhold crucial information on illegal guns needed by local cops.

"In terms of how much money to spend I don't know," Bloomberg said. "The last time I was on a campaign I spent $85 million."

Well, he spent $70 milliion to buy the mayor's seat--that's some campaign finance reform in NYC, eh?

And the thing is, having a comparable war chest wouldn't be enough--not that any rich pro-2A champion will ride to the rescue, and not, heaven forbid--that gun owners will ever chip in to launch a pro-gun media campaign of their own. No, even if such an effort existed, it still would pale compared to the free media exposure the citizen disarmament camp get every day via bias, ignorance, omission and outright lies by the establishment press.

So Bloomberg will use his millions to put on a propaganda blitz aimed at a mass audience the experts are, well, experts at manipulating. He'll demand what this idiot "authorized journalist" Marcia Kramer brainlessly parrots: "Give local cops the information they need." And the mayor is not above exploiting the Virginia Tech murders to convince people this is so--even if the police somehow managed to "trace" those guns without having a national gun owner registry, which is really what he's after (and which some friends of mine have figured out how to stymie, but their idea is getting even less support than the COA ad campaign).

Yeah, I'm sure "The Only Ones" need a lot of things that would make their jobs easier, if only that pesky Bill of Rights didn't get in the way.