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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: Rapunzel on February 09, 2014, 03:53:13 am

Title: Mayor Quit Bloomberg's Gun Control Group Because Goal Was 'Confiscation'
Post by: Rapunzel on February 09, 2014, 03:53:13 am

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/02/07/Mayor-Quit-Bloomberg-s-MAIG-After-Realizing-Gun-Confiscation-Was-Ultimate-Goal

Mayor Quit Bloomberg's Gun Control Group Because Goal Was 'Confiscation'

by AWR Hawkins 8 Feb 2014, 7:34 AM PDT

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.--Poughkeepsie Mayor John Tkazyik says he cut ties with Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) when he realized MAIG's ultimate goal was "to promote confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens."

Spelling out his views in a February 5th op-ed, Tkazyik wrote:

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    I'm Mayor of one of the largest cities in the Hudson Valley, just 90 minutes north of New York City. I'm a life member of the National Rifle Association and a former member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, or MAIG, started by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2006.

    I'm no longer a member of MAIG. Why? Just as Ronald Reagan said of the Democrat Party, it left me. And I'm not alone: Nearly 50 pro-Second Amendment mayors have left the organization. They left for the same reason I did. MAIG became a vehicle for Bloomberg to promote his personal gun-control agenda--violating the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens and taking resources away from initiatives that could actually work to protect our neighborhoods and save some precious lives. [...]

    It did not take long to realize that MAIG's agenda was much more than ridding felons of illegal guns; that under the guise of helping mayors facing a crime and drug epidemic, MAIG intended to promote confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens.

Tkazyik said he doesn't believe "encroaching on our right to bear arms" makes anyone safer. Thus, he refuses to be part of MAIG.

Title: Re: Mayor Quit Bloomberg's Gun Control Group Because Goal Was 'Confiscation'
Post by: Rodrigo on February 09, 2014, 04:12:42 am

Confiscation has been the plan since Thomas J Dodd and Emanual Cellar planned the first handgun only registration plan.
Then it was registration for all guns.
Then a call for bans on Saturday Night Specials.
Then a call for bans on ALL handguns, ]
Then a call to ban certain rifles and shotguns..

and so it goes.

Title: Re: Mayor Quit Bloomberg's Gun Control Group Because Goal Was 'Confiscation'
Post by: Atomic Cow on February 09, 2014, 05:04:33 am

This is why Doomberg has moved on to amnesty.  He needs the illegal vote to elect enough Democrats to pass a complete gun ban.

Title: Re: Mayor Quit Bloomberg's Gun Control Group Because Goal Was 'Confiscation'
Post by: Oceander on February 09, 2014, 05:31:35 am

Quote from: Atomic Cow on February 09, 2014, 05:04:33 am

This is why Doomberg has moved on to amnesty.  He needs the illegal vote to elect enough Democrats to pass a complete gun ban.

NYC has an almost complete de facto ban on guns anyways, and I'm sure Comrade Deblasio will make it even more comprehensive.