By Selwyn Duke

Since removing constitutional rights is all the rage now, I have to ask:
when does dislocation from reality become severe enough to justify
involuntary commitment? A good study case is NYC’s Mayor Michael
Bloomberg, who recently uttered a real gem on his weekly radio show.
Writes Politicker.com:

“I don’t think there’s anybody that’s defended the Second Amendment as
much as I have, Ray,” Mr. Bloomberg said to a caller who asked him why
he was “so against” the constitutional passage. “I think you have a
perfect right to buy weapons and keep them for protection or for sport.
We have tried to make sure that you have it.”

Well, take that, Wayne LaPierre. You thought you were the point man on
gun rights, but you’re actually outshone by Little Big Gulp, who has
defended the Second Amendment more than “anybody.”

Of course, this will come as news to Slate, which recently penned a piece titled
“Beating Guns the Bloomberg Way: The New York mayor, not Obama, knows
how to defeat the NRA.” The site credits Little Big Gulp’s example with
being the gold standard for the evisceration of the Second Amendment,
writing that, in contrast to Barack Obama’s “moral approach” to playing
puppeteer, LBG “has been the exemplar of the alternative, paternalistic
model….” Hey, who’s ya’ daddy?

I’m not sure what weapons LBG claims to want us to have; maybe the squirt is talking about squirt guns, although he’s not fond of those
if they look too realistic. Heck, this is a guy who finds even really
large drinks too intimidating because he has to look up at the rim (joke
credit to Dennis Miller).

I don’t like it when crazies get their hands on guns, but it’s even more
frightening when crazies get their hands on gun laws. LBG’s assertion
is right up there with fellows behind institution walls who insist
they’re Napoleon or the Queen of England. Next he’ll be telling us he’s
more pro-life than Mother Teresa, more of a Confederate than Robert E.
Lee, and more Christian than the Pope.

It really should be made easier to remove officials from their positions
when they show the main warning sign of severe mental instability.

That would be liberalism.

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