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NE Bull:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Among the slick, million-dollar ads for the likes of Pepsi and Honda during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in Washington will see a far more modest spot. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be sitting on a couch touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague: gun control.

The two mayors, whose local teams face off in the big game, are making the pitch for Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), the organization they co-founded in 2006.

Murder has been on the decline in New York and other major American cities for years, but the mayors say they still see too many dead cops and teens..............

http://news.yahoo.com/special-report-bloomberg-reloads-push-gun-control-124037455.html

Actually a decently written article as there are quite a few good jabs at MAIG!

bk09:
Keeping "assault" rifles off the streets since they have no real sporting purpose? 3 gun is a sport, seems to me "assault" rifles have a purpose. Heck if you get a long enough barrel and some nosler partitions and a .223 is a deer rifle. Not to mention how many coyotes that round has taken...

bkoenig:
It's not about whether or not they have a sporting purpose, it's about control of the masses.  The political elite like Bloomberg think it's ok for their personal armed forces to have all kinds of weapons - the NYPD has antiaircraft capability, for crying out loud.  An armed population can't be controlled, and that scares people like Bloomberg.

OnTheFly:
Great! I despise those guys.  I wrote a letter to Mayor Beutler and commented on how his being a member of MAIG spoke poorly of him.  What a surprise that he thinks MAIG is of pure intent.  I made note of how anti 2A those founding mayors are, but Beutler doesn't see that.

Fly

bk09:
I don't recall seeing this ad run.

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