Bloomberg on Meet the Press

Part of my promotional efforts for the Gun Rights Examiner columns is social networking. As such, I make attempts to outreach using stuff like Digg, Twitter, Facebook...the latter being probably the most useful because it allow for more meaningful interaction with other RKBA proponents.

The following is a post by Jake Syma on a recent Bloomberg media op that he addressed to John Pierce and me. I thought it was well stated and made an irrefutable point, and Jake has allowed me to share it here:

I don't know whether either of you caught it this morning... Michael Bloomberg (NY, NY) and Cory Booker (Newark, NJ) on MTP talking about (among other things) guns.

David Gregory threw an adulatory softball question at Bloomberg, asking about a "major victory" he recently scored over the NRA (regarding the Thune Amendment). He then allowed Bloomberg to talk a bit about the organization he's a part of, "Mayors Against Illegal Guns."

I quote him there to make the point that *they* made the point of stressing the org is not against GUNS, per se, but is only against ILLEGAL GUNS... never once considering the fact that killing the Thune Amendment would be "exceeding MAIG's charter," so to speak, if it was *only* against illegal guns... since the Thune Amendment wasn't *about* letting [so-called] "illegal guns" cross state lines.

Then there was more of the standard BS fare regarding the [so-called] "gun show loophole," but the response to that has gotten to the point that it's all "copy-and-paste" now (that is, boilerplate).

The "killing the Thune Amendment" portion may or may not be article-worthy, but I thought I'd at least pass it along.

Best,

Jake.

P.S. Transcript here (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8987534/ns/meet_the_press/) if either of you are interested.