In response to Mayor Bloomberg’s incredibly stupid remarks suggesting that police nationwide should go on strike in the name of more gun control laws, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms had this response:<\/p>\n
BELLEVUE, WA \u2013 Anti-gun New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg\u2019s call for American police officers to \u201cgo on strike\u201d in an effort to force Congress and state legislatures to push his gun prohibition agenda is \u201ca new low in demagoguery,\u201d the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.<\/p>\n
\u201cMayor Bloomberg has gone from bluster to blackmail with his extremist gun ban campaign,\u201d said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. \u201cHe would have police officers quit their posts and abandon their public safety missions in what would amount to an exercise of national extortion.<\/p>\n
\u201cPerhaps he believes it would be better,\u201d he noted, \u201cfor cops to walk off the job than to engage in illegal gun and drug transactions, as some of his own New York City police have done lately.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bloomberg was on CNN Monday speaking to Piers Morgan when he encouraged police officers stage this strike. Gottlieb noted that by even making the suggestion, Bloomberg might be close to violating a New York statute known as the Taylor Law. Under that 1967 law \u2013 officially titled the Public Employees Fair Employment Act \u2013 public employees and employers are prohibited from encouraging strikes by public employees.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Bloomberg is violating the law, it would not be a first for a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the anti-gun organization he founded,\u201d Gottlieb added. \u201cAt least 18 members of that group have been prosecuted for various crimes, which is not a track record I\u2019d be proud of.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously,\u201d he observed, \u201cMayor Bloomberg did not think things through before he suggested this preposterous course of action. If the nation\u2019s police were to walk off the job today, by tomorrow, American citizens would be flocking to gun stores to purchase firearms for personal protection. All his stupid statement will do is increase gun sales.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe Bloomberg wants to replace Barack Obama as the unofficial gun salesman of the year,\u201d Gottlieb concluded.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n