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Below is a news clip on today's event and also some other good information for those attending the VCDL protest today.
Bloomberg's horse and pony show was in Blacksburg yesterday according to the news article below (we missed that one, somehow). They might stop at some other places in Virginia in the next day or so. I will relay information as I get it.
First, here is a video of a California anti-freedom representative, Julie Leftwich, admitting that there is NO data to show that California's private gun sale registration scheme, "assault weapon" ban, hi-capacity magazine ban, and one-gun-a-month restrictions have made any difference at all in crime (thanks to Joshua Berger for the link):
WARNING: This video depicts graphic whining about "if only other states would also trample on the Constitution, too, then California would be safer." ;-)
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This ran in an update on April 4, but it bears repeating here and now:
Mayors Against Illegal Guns: A reality check
John Haksch emailed me this:
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Hi, Phil!
I have been doing a bit of research on Bloomberg's group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns. They claim a membership of 593 mayors. Of these, 399 (over 67%!) are in only four states - New Jersey (40), New York (108), Ohio (71) and Pennsylvania(180). If you throw in California (21) and Florida (36), they account for 456 (over 76%) of their alleged membership.
There are approximately 8,291 mayors, nationally, of localities with over 30,000 citizens. Even disregarding the fact that a fair number of Bloomberg's group are not even included in that count, due to small constituencies, this means that fewer than 7.2% of the nation's mayors agree with his goals and methods enough to allow themselves to be counted among his supporters.
The vast majority of states, 37,74% (see table below) could produce only 5 or fewer members, from the many hundreds of mayors in each state. In fact, they could not persuade a SINGLE mayor in 12 states to join in their conspiracy to subvert the Constitution (see table below). I am saddened to see that they were able to dupe 9 of our own Virginia mayors. [PVC: Virginia does have some less-than-stellar Mayors. The members of Bloomberg's coalition should be on every gun owner's list to get unelected.]
Alabama - 3, Alaska - 1, Arizona - 0, Arkansas - 2, Colorado - 1, Georgia- 5, Hawaii - 1, Idaho - 0, Indiana - 5, Iowa - 2, Kansas - 3, Kentucky - 0, Louisiana - 4, Maine - 4, Maryland - 4, Michigan - 3, Minnesota - 3, Mississippi - 3, Missouri - 3, Montana - 0, Nebraska - 3, New Hampshire - 0, New Mexico - 2, Nevada - 0, North Dakota - 1, Oklahoma - 0, Oregon - 2, Rhode Island - 0, South Carolina - 2, South Dakota - 0, Tennessee - 3, Texas - 2, Utah - 0, Vermont - 2, West Virginia - 0, Wisconsin - 5, Wyoming - 0
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Here is a news blurb (thanks to BIll Hine for the link):
From Channel 12, the Richmond NBC affiliate: http://www.nbc12.com/Global/story.asp?S=14551637