Has America’s foremost mayoral advo cate for gun control gone wobbly?
As calls for a boycott of gun manufacturer Glock blossom, Mayor Bloomberg ducked yesterday.
It was a week ago today that Tucson mass murderer Jared Loughner inserted a 33-round magazine into his 9mm Glock semi-automatic pistol and shot 19 people — killing six.
So, we wondered: Why doesn’t the NYPD boycott Glock until it stops selling high-capacity pistol magazines?
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio likes the idea; so do Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch and Paterson Mayor Jeffrey Jones.
Not so Mike Bloomberg, a well-known anti-gun crusader.
“The trouble is if you boycott one [company], you probably have to boycott all of them,” Mayor Mike said Friday.
Why?
Glock was the culprit in Tucson.
Bloomberg concedes that the high-capacity magazines exist only “to go kill a lot of people. You don’t need it for a deer or a moose. You just don’t.”
Such disingenuousness is remarkable coming from a man who:
* Founded and is the principal funder of Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
* Hired private investigators to conduct stings on out-of-state gun retailers.
* And inserted himself into the legal process by demanding that gun-toting NFL player Plaxico Burress be prosecuted “to the fullest extent of the law.”
Yet he won’t take the lead in an effort to get a large gun manufacturer to live up to its obvious responsibilities? How sad.