Patty

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to spend $50 million in 2014 to build a “nationwide grass-roots network to motivate” anti-gun voters, the New York Times reports.

Basically, the billionaire wants to create the anti-Second Amendment version of the National Rifle Association. Eventually, he wants the group to be able to overpower the NRA. Bloomberg says gun control advocates should learn from the NRA and make sure there are consequences for failing to go along with their agenda.
He accused the NRA of threatening to go after lawmakers’ “kids,” “grandkids” and even “great-grandkids” if they don’t vote the right way.

“We’ve got to make them afraid of us,” Bloomberg added, according to the New York Times.

As the Times also notes, “Bloomberg already spent millions of dollars trying to persuade members of Congress to support enhanced background check laws with virtually nothing to show for it.”

Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, said the former New York governor has “money to waste” but eventually “he’s going to find out why his side keeps losing.”

rjoeholl

Let me get this straight. I have guns; they don't. And I'm supposed to be afraid?

Floyd Brown Loc: Milwaukee WI

Again you bring up a key issue.

As I have said may times on this site I have or may have guns. They may be under a bunch of junk in my attic or my sons may have them.

That said I also have said it is no skin off my nose if you have guns.

But what I don't like is to hear from those gun owners who shout out what they have & what they do with what they have.

Because if you wish to keep your guns just keep that fact to your self & don't keep bringing up what you will do with the guns.

The bigger issue you make of this the more gun control there will be.

There are too many nuts out there waving guns around.
If you keep defending them you will only loose what you have.

Patty

Why would you mention on a public forum that you might be hiding them at your sons house. I would never bring my kids into a discussion on this matter.
You cant actually believe that the FBI Insta check list has followed the 90 day name wipe out (no kept list)over at least the last 10 years. If you bought it and had an NICS done they know it. Why would they not lie about this when they have lied about everything else.
To me it is a subject that is not open to debate. The second is one of the clearest amendments in the Bill of Rights. Any deviation from it is unacceptable and must be challenged. You are free to do what you want but more and more Fort Hood incidents will occur till the laws are changed.

quote=Floyd Brown]Again you bring up a key issue.

As I have said may times on this site I have or may have guns. They may be under a bunch of junk in my attic or my sons may have them.

That said I also have said it is no skin off my nose if you have guns.

But what I don't like is to hear from those gun owners who shout out what they have & what they do with what they have.

Because if you wish to keep your guns just keep that fact to your self & don't keep bringing up what you will do with the guns.

The bigger issue you make of this the more gun control there will be.

There are too many nuts out there waving guns around.
If you keep defending them you will only loose what you have.[/quote]

Floyd Brown Loc: Milwaukee WI

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No laws were broken in getting our keeping these guns.

I am not hiding them It is that I have no use for them.

I have not been hunting in over 50 years. My sons hunt from time to time.

I don't think that I am or would be near the top of any list of people that the FBI will come looking for a couple of hunting guns.

If they are in my attic & I find them I will dispose of them. Along with a lot of other stuff up there.

I was saving it do when I retired & if I ever retire I will do it then. Other wise it will be my children who will make use of things our throw them away.

Patty

:thumbup: I see. To me it is like having homeowners insurance. I hope I never need it but if I do I will be glad I had it.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Why not arm this "grass roots network"? That would certainly scare ME!

jay-are

In your title, "Bloomberg isnt to bright," you misspelled the word "to." It should be "too." How bright is that, to misspell a three letter word?

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Feeling superior now? I guess you missed my post about how ridiculous the "spleeling Polices" are. I'd like to see your badge though, I bet it's cool. Kip up tho gud werk!

jay-are

You could start writing in Russian, and I wouldn't understand what you are saying. If you want to communicate, you have to use a common language that we all understand. If you use the wrong words, we can't know, for sure, what you mean. If you want us to understand your intended meaning, you have to use words that mean what you intend to say. If you use a different word, and that word does not mean what the right word means your statement says something different than what you intended it to say. If you want to communicate your point, you have to properly use the correct words. If you want to stir up confusion and disagreement, you are on the right track by using the wrong word.

Patty

Here sweetie let me help you out.
Too

Use too as a synonym for "also" used before a verb. Usually, if you can replace too with also in the same sentence, and it still makes sense, then you are using it correctly.
Do you think "isn't" is a verb?

jay-are

True, too is a synomym for also, but too also means an excessive amount. To does not mean an excessive amount.

Look up to and see that it does not mean an excessive amount.

Is is a verb. Isn't is a contraction of the verb is and the adverb not. Isn't is half verb and half adverb. Why do you ask?

Patty

Here is another tip for you. When quoting a word as in "is" it is always proper to use quotation marks. You're welcome.

jay-are

"Always?"

jonhatfield Loc: Green Bay, WI

Jay-are, I've also noticed various peculiar wordings suggesting some of the hundreds of 'Patty' postings are from someone unfamiliar with a few of our many complicated language usages. Of course, many of us have common mistakes in usage...my mother in old age wrote 'most' instead of 'must.' However, the nature of the peculiarities I've seen with some Putin Patty's postings don't fit the ordinary mistake pattern...rather appears to be a matter of small oddities of otherwise very talented second language use.