Florida Alert!
Clips You Need to Read and Share
NRA-ILA
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
DATE: February 3, 2020
TO: USF & NRA Members and Friends
FROM: Marion P. Hammer
Clips:
. John R. Lott Jr.: Mike Bloomberg is
running two misleading gun control ads during the Super Bowl (Townhall)
. Brad Polumbo: Bloomberg’s Super Bowl
commercial pushing gun control is fake news (Washington Examiner)
. Mike
Bloomberg Just Lost My Vote With His Super Bowl Ad (Reason)
. Mike Bloomberg’s Fatuous Super Bowl Ad
(National Review)
Click on the links to read the full clippings:
By John R. Lott, Jr.
Townhall
February 3, 2020
Mike Bloomberg is running two misleading gun control ads
during the Super Bowl. One ad focuses on the 2007 Trolley Square Mall shooting
in Salt Lake City, Utah where five people were killed. The other ad greatly
misstates the number of children killed by firearms each year, while also
overlooking the true cause of these deaths.
Each 60 second ad apparently costs about $10 million. But
that's only a fraction of the $248 million that the ten-week-old campaign has
spent on campaign ads.
In one ad, Kait Hinckley
talks about how the Trolley Square shooter killed her
15-year-old sister and permanently disabled her mother. But like 94 percent
of all successful mass public shootings, the attack occurred
in a gun-free zone.
The Trolley Square Mall contained clearly-posted signs that prohibited people
from carrying permitted concealed handguns…
by Brad Polumbo
Washington Examiner
February 2, 2020 | 11:46 am
When millions of viewers tune in to the Super Bowl on
Sunday, they’ll be hoping for a unifying,
authentic American football experience, hopefully with some
hilarious advertisements thrown in for good measure, as has become the norm in
recent years. But they’ll also be forced to sit through a highly-misleading
gun control advertisement from anti-gun activist and
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg, who is throwing millions
of dollars into advertising in a desperate bid to buy the Democratic
nomination.
Of course, Bloomberg has every right to spend his money
to spread his views and advocate his anti-gun message. But in this case, the
advertisement is extremely misleading overall and downright false in parts.
The Bloomberg commercial uses the sad story of an African
American mother who lost her son, a star football player, to a shooting. It
then claims that “2,900 children die from gun violence every year,” and that
“Mike’s fighting for every child because you have a right to live.”
Where does he get this
number of 2,900 children killed every year from gun
violence? From an anti-gun group’s misleading study that counted 18- and
19-year-olds as “children.” Gun expert and Washington Free Beacon journalist
Stephen Gutowski calculated that when you remove these adults, the true number
falls by 50%...
The billionaire former three-term mayor of New York
panders to Democratic loyalists rather than laying out a vision for a
prosperous, tolerant America.
By NICK GILLESPIE
Reason
February 2, 2020
Many Americans will basically be meeting Mike Bloomberg
for the first time today, when the billionaire former three-term mayor of New
York City drops an ad costing a reported $11 million during the Super Bowl.
Despite have served in office first as a Republican and then as an independent,
Bloomberg is now running for the Democratic presidential nomination. He's not
exactly unknown (he even once had a funny cameo on Curb Your
Enthusiasm), but he's hardly as familiar to most voters
as Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, or Donald Trump.
But based on his commercial, which is about gun violence
in America, Bloomberg has already lost my potential vote. Let me explain…
By KYLE SMITH
National Review
February 2, 2020 | 5:52 pm
“Mike will get it done” is the concluding message of Mike
Bloomberg’s 60-second anti-gun Super Bowl commercial. Get what done? The
commercial, which cost Bloomberg $11 million, is about a young aspiring
football player who was shot to death. But if Bloomberg has a plan to stop
people from being shot to death, I’d like to hear it. Here’s the spot.
I think Bloomberg was a decent mayor, fairly fiscally
prudent and pro-business, albeit with silly nanny-state tendencies, most of
which didn’t amount to much. I don’t have much of a stake in the gun issue one
way or the other; I’m indifferent about, whether, say, we should reinstate the
so-called assault-weapons ban. I don’t think such a ban (or extending
background checks to the tiny minority of private gun sales, or anything else
anyone has proposed) would make any difference with respect to gun violence.
Gun-control proposals seem to me to amount to a kind of taste signaling: “Vote
for me, I hate the same stuff you hate.”
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