As a follow-up:
15% of Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun mayors leaveAccording 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