{"id":6532,"date":"2012-08-10T12:10:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6532"},"modified":"2012-08-10T12:10:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:10:06","slug":"a-bad-time-to-stop-sniffing-glue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6532","title":{"rendered":"A bad time to stop sniffing glue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalnewyork.com\/article\/politics\/2012\/08\/6409333\/bloomberg-says-gun-control-winner-swing-voters\" target=\"_blank\">According to Mayor Mike<\/a>, the way to win the presidency is to start pushing gun control:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; &#8220;I think the ways to get a majority of them would be to stand up and say, &#8216;Look, I&#8217;m not gonna be president of the United States and have 48,000 people killed, murdered with illegal guns in the next four years in my term. I&#8217;m just not going to do that,'&#8221; he said, during his regular Friday morning radio appearance on the <a href=\"www.wor710.com\/john-gambling\" target=\"_blank\">John Gambling Show<\/a>. &#8220;&#8216;And here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll do. Now, Congress may not pass it. But I&#8217;m gonna work as hard as I can. This is where I stand.&#8217; And I think that&#8217;s the ways that they would get a majority of that 20 percent, which is what they need to win &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That would explain why the candidates are <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.baltimoresun.com\/2012-08-09\/news\/bs-ed-gun-violence-20120809_1_gun-control-tax-ammunition-weapons\" target=\"_blank\">running away from him and the issue<\/a> as fast as they can.<\/p>\n<p>You really have to wonder what is going through his head to make statements like this &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/7WAwuSK36Gw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D6532&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; 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