NYC Mayor Bloomberg is nuts- Calls for cops to go on strike pending gun control

I don't even know what to say about this.. WTF?! New York City Mayor Bloomberg literally said that all cops should go on strike until stricter gun control laws are passed. This guy needs to be taken out of office and put in jail.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mayor-bloomberg-comment-police-strike-congress-attention-gun-control-debate-level-drew-mixed-reactions-article-1.1120980

Thoughts? :?

Yes, he's dumb.

This guy needs to be taken out of office and put in jail.hartsickdiscipl

What law has he violated?

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]This guy needs to be taken out of office and put in jail.worlock77

What law has he violated?

For a sitting Mayor to tell the police force to go on strike has to be breaking a law. If it's not, that's nuts too. He's basically calling for the government to cut off essential services until the public gives up their 2nd amendment rights.

I don't even know what to say about this.. WTF?! New York City Mayor Bloomberg literally said that all cops should go on strike until stricter gun control laws are passed. This guy needs to be taken out of office and put in jail.

hartsickdiscipl

Oooh. Sounds like he was part of your big conspiracy regarding the Colorado theatre shooting, huh?

[QUOTE="worlock77"]

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]This guy needs to be taken out of office and put in jail.hartsickdiscipl

What law has he violated?

For a sitting Mayor to tell the police force to go on strike has to be breaking a law. If it's not, that's nuts too. He's basically calling for the government to cut off essential services until the public gives up their 2nd amendment rights.

So, what law has he violated? Unless you can cite a specific example he's just expressing his opinion and talking out of his ass (much like you).

Funny, wouldn't it be easier for cops if citizens had the ability to defend themselves against petty criminals?

Anyways, I agree, what Mayor Bloomberg said was idiotic.

I'm sure that was taken out of context. No one would be that stupid.

I'm sure that was taken out of context. No one would be that stupid.

sonicare

Bloomberg is crazy. I will never forgive him for going on a witch hunt against Plaxico Burress and ruining the rest of the Giants season

And that is only the tip of the bloom-errr-iceberg

I'm surprised he's not a CA politician. His completely asinine, ass-backwards BS would fit like a glove here.

I'm surprised he's not a CA politician. His completely asinine, ass-backwards BS would fit like a glove here.

Pirate700

I bet.

By the way, you have terrible drivers.

gun control laws, lol. i dont want to live in sissy land. freedom or death.mingmao3046

lol

gun control laws, lol. i dont want to live in sissy land. freedom or death.mingmao3046

[QUOTE="mingmao3046"]gun control laws, lol. i dont want to live in sissy land. freedom or death.-Sun_Tzu-

Bloomberg is crazy. I will never forgive him for going on a witch hunt against Plaxico Burress and ruining the rest of the Giants season

And that is only the tip of the bloom-errr-iceberg

-Sun_Tzu-

Quit complaining, you guys just won the Super Bowl.

Bloomberg is crazy. I will never forgive him for going on a witch hunt against Plaxico Burress and ruining the rest of the Giants season

And that is only the tip of the bloom-errr-iceberg

-Sun_Tzu-

You mean when Plaxico shot himself?

[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"]

Bloomberg is crazy. I will never forgive him for going on a witch hunt against Plaxico Burress and ruining the rest of the Giants season

And that is only the tip of the bloom-errr-iceberg

leviathan91

You mean when Plaxico shot himself?

[QUOTE="leviathan91"]

[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"]

Bloomberg is crazy. I will never forgive him for going on a witch hunt against Plaxico Burress and ruining the rest of the Giants season

And that is only the tip of the bloom-errr-iceberg

-Sun_Tzu-

You mean when Plaxico shot himself?

*edit*

You know, never mind, that was actually a pretty stupid response.

I'm sure that was taken out of context. No one would be that stupid.

sonicare

No, it wasn't taken out of context.

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

[QUOTE="worlock77"]

What law has he violated?

For a sitting Mayor to tell the police force to go on strike has to be breaking a law. If it's not, that's nuts too. He's basically calling for the government to cut off essential services until the public gives up their 2nd amendment rights.

So, what law has he violated? Unless you can cite a specific example he's just expressing his opinion and talking out of his ass (much like you).

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

[QUOTE="worlock77"]

What law has he violated?

worlock77

For a sitting Mayor to tell the police force to go on strike has to be breaking a law. If it's not, that's nuts too. He's basically calling for the government to cut off essential services until the public gives up their 2nd amendment rights.

So, what law has he violated? Unless you can cite a specific example he's just expressing his opinion and talking out of his ass (much like you).

There's a difference between me randomly making a comment based on my opinion, and the mayor of the biggest city in the US publicly inciting police officers who are sworn to protect private citizens to neglect their duty of defending the public because he doesn't like part of the US Constitution. BIG difference.

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

[QUOTE="worlock77"]

What law has he violated?

worlock77

For a sitting Mayor to tell the police force to go on strike has to be breaking a law. If it's not, that's nuts too. He's basically calling for the government to cut off essential services until the public gives up their 2nd amendment rights.

So, what law has he violated? Unless you can cite a specific example he's just expressing his opinion and talking out of his ass (much like you).

While he might not have technically broke the law what he talked about is actually illegal for NYC public unions to do (ironically enough)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Law

Bloomberg 2016.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told CNN's Piers Morgan last night that he doesn't "understand why police officers across this country dont stand up collectively and say were going to go on strike, were not going to protect you unless you, the public, through your legislature, do whats required to keep us safe."

We've been hearing a lot of that recently. Earlier this year, The New York Times reprinted a Department of Justice press release and slapped this lede on top of it: As violent crime has decreased across the country, a disturbing trend has emerged: Rising numbers of police officers are being killed.

Bloomberg and The New York Times are both wrong:

• In 2008, ten times morecivilians regular people were killed by cops than cops were killed by perps.
• In 2011,72 cops were shot and killed in the entire U.S.; in L.A. County alone, cops shot and killed 54 suspects the same year--22 percent of those people were unarmed.
• As Scott Reeder reported at Reason this morning, "Farmers, ranchers, commercial fishermen, loggers, garbage collectors, truck drivers, construction workers, pilots, steel workers, roofers, and others are far more likely to face death on the jobs than police or firefighters, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics."
• And as Choire Sicha wroteearlier this year, "2008 was the ten-year low for police officers being killed, and 2012 is, so far, year-to-date, down 49% from last year."

Bloomberg, the commander of "the seventh biggest army in the world"went on to say that "police officers want to go home to their families. And were doing everything we can to make their job more difficult, but more importantly, more dangerous, by leaving guns in the hands of people who shouldnt have them and letting people who have those guns buy things like armor piercing bullets.

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Mike_Riggs_July-24-2012

http://reason.com/blog/2012/07/24/mayor-bloomberg-says-cops-should-go-on-s

Some extra info for how stupid of a thing to say. I bet he gets elected again too. Somewhere. We have to make sure and keep this guy in office. To keep our insults of the government sane.

Thank god I don't live in that sad excuse for a city. First the soft drink thing, now this. That city has been to hell since the 1970's. It may have been a nice place over half a century ago, but no more.Reed_Bowie

What? I agree Bloomberg is nutjob.

But NYC pre-1990 was a gang-ridden shit hole. The City has cleaned up immensely in the last 20 years. Unless you have an aptitudefor violence, prostitutes and drugs, I can't fathome what makes you think NYC was better back then.

http://reason.com/blog/2012/07/24/mayor-bloomberg-says-cops-should-go-on-s

Some extra info for how stupid of a thing to say. I bet he gets elected again too. Somewhere. We have to make sure and keep this guy in office. To keep our insults of the government sane.

LOXO7

He can't be elected again. This is his last term.

I was under the impression that it was illegal for police officers and emergency service works to go on strike anyways. Correct me if I'm wrong, can't remember where I heard this.dagreenfish

We can all call in sick at the same time.

[QUOTE="dagreenfish"]I was under the impression that it was illegal for police officers and emergency service works to go on strike anyways. Correct me if I'm wrong, can't remember where I heard this.airshocker

We can all call in sick at the same thing.

[QUOTE="dagreenfish"]I was under the impression that it was illegal for police officers and emergency service works to go on strike anyways. Correct me if I'm wrong, can't remember where I heard this.airshocker

We can all call in sick at the same thing.

Gotcha. But is an officially organized strike allowed?dagreenfish

Depends on the area, I think. In mine we're not allowed to go on strike, no.

Bad case of the blue flu huh ??

noscope-ak47

Indeed. It's a pretty scummy thing to do, IMO.

First they take your guns, then they take your dignity. SolidSnake35

using the guns? Kinky.

I don't even know what to say about this.. WTF?! New York City Mayor Bloomberg literally said that all cops should go on strike until stricter gun control laws are passed. This guy needs to be taken out of office and put in jail.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mayor-bloomberg-comment-police-strike-congress-attention-gun-control-debate-level-drew-mixed-reactions-article-1.1120980

Thoughts? :?

hartsickdiscipl

You say that but most police officers agree with the Mayor.

They are going into unknown situations with handguns against people with semi-automatic assault rifles.

should he go to jail?..no...is he dumb as a freaking post?...yes....but hey it's NY....it's what we are use to....Omni-Slash

Striving to be CA's little brother in insanity?

[QUOTE="noscope-ak47"]

Bad case of the blue flu huh ??

airshocker

Indeed. It's a pretty scummy thing to do, IMO.

[QUOTE="hartsickdiscipl"]

I don't even know what to say about this.. WTF?! New York City Mayor Bloomberg literally said that all cops should go on strike until stricter gun control laws are passed. This guy needs to be taken out of office and put in jail.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mayor-bloomberg-comment-police-strike-congress-attention-gun-control-debate-level-drew-mixed-reactions-article-1.1120980

Thoughts? :?

Netherscourge

You say that but most police officers agree with the Mayor.

They are going into unknown situations with handguns against people with semi-automatic assault rifles.

Striving to be CA's little brother in insanity?

Pirate700

[QUOTE="dagreenfish"]Gotcha. But is an officially organized strike allowed?airshocker

Depends on the area, I think. In mine we're not allowed to go on strike, no.

You say that but most police officers agree with the Mayor.

They are going into unknown situations with handguns against people with semi-automatic assault rifles.

Netherscourge

Most? You have a link for the statistics on that? Because in my department the vast majority of cops are for the populace being armed so it can protect itself.