Former MAIG member: goal is confiscation of guns

[gryphon]

MAIG intends to promote confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens

I’m the mayor of one of the largest cities in the Hudson Valley, just 90 minutes north of New York City. I’m a former member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, or MAIG, started by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2006.

I’m no longer a member of MAIG. Why? Just as Ronald Reagan said of the Democratic Party, it left me. And I’m not alone: Nearly 50 pro-Second Amendment mayors have left the organization. They left for the same reason I did. MAIG became a vehicle for Bloomberg to promote his personal gun-control agenda — violating the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens and taking resources away from initiatives that could actually work to protect our neighborhoods and save precious lives. Gun control will actually make a bad situation worse.

MAIG intended to promote confiscation of guns from law-abiding citizens. I don’t believe, never have believed and never will believe that public safety is enhanced by encroaching on our right to bear arms, and I will not be a part of any organization that does.

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20140207/OPINION04/302070047/ICYMI-Valley-View-Mayoral-group-s-gun-agenda-wrong

[TheQ]

+1

[CV67PAT]

No surprise.

[gryphon]

As a follow-up:

15% of Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun mayors leave

According to a new count, the group’s membership has gone from a high of 1,046 following the shootings at Newtown, Conn.’s Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012 to a low today of 885.

That’s a fast drop of 161 members.

The shrinking membership has been noticed and charted by pro-gun groups and congressional supporters of the Second Amendment as evidence that the public and public officials are losing their appetite for greater gun control.

As they’ve left MAIG, many of the mayors have publicly assailed Bloomberg’s group, suggesting that it has gone from a group targeting “illegal” guns to one simply against guns.

The “original mission swayed,” said Rockford, Ill., Mayor Larry Morrissey as he exited. He even explained that he planned to get a concealed carry permit because his family has been threatened.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/161-mayor-members-flee-michael-bloombergs-anti-gun-group-a-15-crash/article/2543646

[CV67PAT]

As a follow-up:

15% of Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun mayors leave

According to a new count, the group’s membership has gone from a high of 1,046 following the shootings at Newtown, Conn.’s Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012 to a low today of 885.

That’s a fast drop of 161 members.

The shrinking membership has been noticed and charted by pro-gun groups and congressional supporters of the Second Amendment as evidence that the public and public officials are losing their appetite for greater gun control.

As they’ve left MAIG, many of the mayors have publicly assailed Bloomberg’s group, suggesting that it has gone from a group targeting “illegal” guns to one simply against guns.

The “original mission swayed,” said Rockford, Ill., Mayor Larry Morrissey as he exited. He even explained that he planned to get a concealed carry permit because his family has been threatened.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/161-mayor-members-flee-michael-bloombergs-anti-gun-group-a-15-crash/article/2543646

The public never really had much interest in gun control. And the politicians see it as leading to lost elections. That's the real reason for abandoning it. The dems were very open with O'Bama that they had no stomach for it when he was first elected. And they still don't. The Clinton Gun Control Act cost them the whole congress. They didn't forget that.