The latest from the Second Amendment Foundation:
BELLEVUE, WA – Three more names have been added to a veritable rogue’s gallery of current or former members of Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns who have run afoul of the law with Thursday’s criminal charges against Marcus Hook, Pa. Mayor James Schiliro, the Second Amendment Foundation said today . . .
“Mayor Schiliro is one more example of why we started the ‘Gun Owners Against Illegal Mayors’ campaign,” said SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb. “He joins recently-convicted former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, and recently-indicted former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, both of whom were MAIG members.”
SAF launched Gun Owners Against Illegal Mayors last fall, “and the list keeps growing,” said Gottlieb.
“Schiliro’s case is not only bad, but bizarre,” Gottlieb observed. “He’s been charged with false imprisonment, unlawful restraint, reckless endangerment, serving alcohol to a minor and other crimes, and he also allegedly used more than one gun in this incident, in which at least one shot was fired.
“The allegations against Schiliro creeped me out,” he said. “With associates like this, I can understand why Bloomberg doesn’t trust people with guns.
“According to published reports,” he continued, “Schiliro’s attorney says the mayor has sold his guns and entered alcoholism treatment, but this doesn’t get any traction with me. If the charges against this guy are proven in court, he deserves to have the book thrown at him, same as Mayor Bloomberg would demand if any other gun owner did what police and prosecutors think Schiliro did.
“It is amusing,” Gottlieb added, “that Schiliro – who signed an infamous letter to the U.S. Senate with 600 other mayors – has suddenly disappeared from the MAIG roster on that group’s website.
“Mayor Bloomberg should be more interested in the conduct of MAIG members than trying to pry into the personal lives of gun owners or soda drinkers,” he stated. “If anybody needs a background check, it would be a MAIG member.”
The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.
Criminals support gun control. It makes their job safer and easier. Gun control is like welfare for crooks, including crooked mayors.
Awesome! Go SAF.
P.S. I’d assume the headline is supposed to read “Against” for contextual accuracy.
SAF rocks. Best $150 I ever spent.
“With associates like this, I can understand why Bloomberg doesn’t trust people with guns.”
That cracked me up! Thanks Alan. 🙂
Wait, when did Ray “Get out with nowhere to go and no way to get there!” Nagin get indicted?
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/18/16587058-former-new-orleans-mayor-ray-nagin-charged-with-katrina-related-corruption?lite
No idea if this link will work, but here it is. Mid-January for corruption charges during Katrina recovery efforts, if I remember correctly.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA, dumb bastard.
🙂 🙂 🙂
I had to go look up the news reports on the case; man this guy is quite a piece of work. According to the Daily Times of Delaware County, the story is that he texted a 20 year-old man and had him brought to his house by police. He then proceeded to provide the young man with wine, before producing several handguns, waving them about, and making repeated sexual advances towards said young man.
Like I said, quite a piece of work.
Dan—missing a “T”in the title word “against”. Makes title confusing!
It’s actually missing the “ST”
I see I’m too late to mention Spell Check
Here is another member of MAIG that recently got into legal trouble. http://freebeacon.com/mayors-gone-wild/
I had no idea who Mayor James Schiliro was until I Google’d this:
http://articles.philly.com/2013-03-22/news/37940199_1_schiliro-whelan-report-states
Ugh… sounds like a despicable guy.
You can see the membership roster’s changes over time by visiting http://web.archive.org and entering http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/html/members/members.shtml in The Wayback Machine.
Everyone see how Coumo is going to pay for his gun theft act?
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/03/ny_cuts_cancer_programs_in_sta.html
Too bad Marion Barry isn’t a mayor anymore, he’d be a perfect fit.
Of course he was cut from the roster. The charges are too hot to leave him officially on it. That said, I with everyone else who thinks he’s going to be able to walk with just a slap on the hand, if that, for all the allegations… just because of his position as Mayor. Wouldn’t doubt if it was back on the roster when the negative publicity died though.
Another candidate for the Gunowners Against Illegal Mayors Rogues’ Gallery:
Craig Lowe of Gainsville, Florida, arrested for drunk driving on March 21, 2013, after he was found in his car drunk and asleep at the scene of an accident.
Lowe was one of 30 mayors featured in a recent ad released by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a gun-restriction lobbying group led by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
There’s certainly a lott to find out about this issue.
I really like all the points you made.