First the Big Apple’s diminutive dictator was slapped down on Monday by a New York judge for arbitrary and capricious beverage capacity regulation. Now comes news that one of his main gun control lobbyists loves him some weapons of war. Oops! As reported by freebeacon.com, Adam Eichberg’s a hired gun for lobbying firm Headwater Strategies. And Headwater was hired by Bloomberg’s wholly-owned civilian disarmament advocacy project, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, to push a variety of gun control bills moving through the Colorado legislature . . .
As everyone knows, ARs were only designed for one purpose — killing. And because of that, Eichberg and his firm have been lobbying in the Centennial State — pretty successfully apparently — for bills that would ban “assault weapons” and limit magazine capacity.
All of which makes that shit-eating grin on Eichberg’s face (above) kinda hard to square, no? That’s a photo of him wiping out wascally watermellons in September at the farm of Colorado state senator Greg Brophy.
“It seemed like he had a darn fine time,” state senator Brophy said in an interview with the Free Beacon.
Sure looks like it from here. But all the lobbyist could come up with was,
“I really hate watermelons,” Eichberg said via email when asked for comment.
Obviously, that scary black rifle brought out the worst instincts in him.
But the senator’s fruit shoot was held pre-Newtown. That’s when the world changed and the same gun (and magazine) that provided an afternoon of fun with friends three months earlier was instantly transformed into the source of all evil in the western world. Oh, and Mayor Mike opened his wallet and threw a few million in Headwater’s direction.
Survey method “I’m a leftist kook and working to ban guns. Do you own any guns?”
Who would lie to that?
yes, i tested out an assault rifle so i could see how easy it was to kill with it. then i promptly handed it over to police.
Threw a few million Headwater’s way….Exactly. I suppose everyone has a price, and Mayor nanny obviously found theirs.
Well, at least they embrace their own hypocrisy.
Wanting disarmament yet shooting guns which are still allowed is not inconsistent.
However, as most people for disarmament are led to such beliefs largely from emotional conditioned responses to images of certain weapons mixed with tragic events, this pro-disarmament shooting enthusiast view does make me wonder.
What else is a motivation? Is it peer pressure; money, power, women, drugs; a high frequency of frightening images combined with certain violent memories; the fantasy of doing the impossible, of disarming the world and having everyone live in peace? I also would love it if the whole world would live in peace and skip through meadows and forests, but desiring such things does not change reality.
This is the kind of story that drives me nuts. The Trib needs an expert opinion so they ask a police chief. How about asking one of our nation’s top criminologists. You know, the folks who actually know the data. Street cops overwhelmingly support CCW permits for law-abiding citizens, whereas police chiefs and commissioners do not. Which of those groups were either elected to or appointed to their jobs? As they say, ya gotta dance with those who brung ya.
I dont know a single person who isnt snatching up all the guns and ammo they can get. Even my intollerable uber-democrat (not liberal) friend who BELIEVES we need gun control is out buying AR parts and stockpiling. People who have never owned guns, even people i know who are blind(literally cannot see, yes i know the irony) are snatching up stuff.
I do not get these polls, EVERY SINGLE PERSON i know regardless of race, faith, political views or even income is buying up what weaponry and emergency supplies they can.
The fact is that this country is on the fastest downward slide of my lifetime and everybody with a 1/4 brain sees it coming and is preparing.
These poles are just to keep the room-temp IQ’s believing the talking point of “guns are unpopular in the united states”.
When it comes down to business, everybody is arming to the teeth!!!! they are going to try to start as much division as they can!
The answer is DUHHHHH!!!!!!! The NRA will never support a Democrat bill especially from Shcumer.
I am getting sick and tired of the repeated claims about how “easy” it is to purchase a firearm.
In Texas we are blessed with a dearth of additional regulations in regards to firearms purchase, we just have to follow the Fed. However, that still means filling out a 4473 EVERYTIME and then waiting on the background check. Technology is great in that the background check can be done quickly, and this is not a bad thing. I could fail or pass a test in college in the same amount of time. People who think a background check that happens in a matter of minutes is a bad thing do not understand how modern technology works.
The problem is the process is less friendly if you have a common name, especially if other people with a similar name have a criminal background. A likely occurrence if you are “blessed” with a common name. So when I hear claims like the recent one about buying a gun is easier than buying a pack of bubblegum I wonder how anyone could take that at face value and not as the utter and blatant hyperbole that it is.
If the NRA had any courage and creativity
[ pause for laughter to die down ]
they would produce and air television ads stating the Mark Kelly is a liar. And I don’t mean imply that he’s a liar. I mean state it in no uncertain terms. “Mark Kelly is a liar”.
And then wait and see if Mark Kelly sues them for libel. If he does, then the NRA can
(1) engage in the process of discovery
(2) question him under oath
Is there a risk? Of course. But for a group that claims to be “fighting for freedom”, it would be nice to see them, you know, “fight” for a change.
But given the utter incompetence and gross negligence of the NRA in how they squandered the PR opportunity presented by David Gregory and Irvin Nathan, perhaps us NRA members should be suing the NRA instead.
“The Court of Appeals has been clear that judicial intervention with a message of necessity is not allowed,” McNamara said.
He is not wrong on that point. The courts in NY (from what I can google) have said that only the elected legislature can determine what an “emergency” happens to be. I hope Bob Schulz has more to argue about because at this point he is just blowing smoke.
By my count, adding up the populations of all the counties that have not proposed and are unlikely to imo: Kings, Queens, NY, Richmond, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Tompkins and Schenectady, we get a total of 10,873,887. That’s over 50% of the population of New York according to the 2010 census, and that’s assuming that all the places that have not passed their measures will pass them, or that count will raise, and it could raise substantially.
Unfortunately I think we’re encouraged by large green swaths when the people that Cuomo cares about (the city) already support him
An assault weapons ban is NOT a ban on all guns. It’s not gun grabbing. We’ve had this ban before and it didn’t hinder the people from arming themselves.
Stop being so over dramatic and paranoid.
I’m thinking the “Brace O’ Pistols” just came back into fashion!