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Bloomberg To Fund Anti-Gun Ad
Campaign
Marcia Kramer
CBS
Thursday April 19, 2007
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a coalition of 214 mayors are using
the Virginia Tech massacre to pressure Congress to give local cops
the information they need to trace illegal guns used in crimes.
CBS 2 has also learned that they're also launching a TV ad campaign
starting Sunday.
"We're fighting criminals and illegal guns. Why is Congress
fighting us?" Bloomberg said Wednesday.
The ads will start running in four days in New York, Washington
and the congressional districts of key gun advocates.
"I don’t want my officers to have their hands tied when
it comes to having to deal with the issue of illegal guns for criminals,"
Bloomberg said.
The ads are funded by Bloomberg, who said he will personally spend
whatever it takes to stop a bill that would allow the feds to withhold
crucial information on illegal guns needed by local cops.
"In terms of how much money to spend I don't know," Bloomberg
said. "The last time I was on a campaign I spent $85 million."
Bloomberg said the Virginia Tech massacre that resulted in 33 deaths
should get everyone behind his illegal gun crusade.
"Every day 30 Americans are murdered," he said. "If
one day is cause for you to think, what about 365 days?"
Carole Stiller is with the Million Mom March, a group with members
who have lost loved ones to gun violence. She said she doesn’t
think the Virginia Tech shooter should have had the right to get
a gun.
"Because he wanted it and it was his right to have it,"
Stiller said. "Well, it's our right and it was the 32 other
people's rights to not have someone come on campus and shoot them."
The Virginia Tech shooting also reverberated in the presidential
race. Trying to woo conservatives, the formerly anti-gun Rudy Giuliani
said he supports the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
But Democrats Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama steered
clear of the issue, saying only that the massacre was a tragedy.
INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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