Those who want to reduce America's impact on the world would do well to support Bloomberg for President. A man like him would tear the nation apart. Leftists would oppose the government for its economic policies, and a great many conservatives would consider the federal government to have become a personal enemy. The government would be no energy left for a foreign policy, and internal critics would sabotage his policies -- whatever his policies -- to spite him.

Frank Silbermann, Memphis, Tennessee / USA

What never ceases to amaze me is how reasonable people in any part of the world lack the understanding of the criminal mind. One can take away the guns all you want. if there is no installation of a moral and ethical belief system, banning anything and everything WILL NOT WORK! So many time one can say its the guns, or its the guns that are being held by the criminal...
Sorry folks. What kills people is not the gun, or even the bullet. It’s the trauma induced by the bullet into the human body. That SAME EXACT trauma can be inflicted with ANYTHING with velocity and mass.
That simple concept is what is at fault here. The politicians can never seem to understand that. They just spew out regurgitated BS to tell people that they know what is best.
Funny thing is that here in the US (everyone across the pond pay attention here) the concealed carry laws have actually DROPPED the crime rate. Huuummmm.......

Peter, Laguna, NM, USA

What Bloomberg and the "statistics" quoters fail to realize is that when guns are banned, as in UK and Australia, there is an exponential increase in knife violence, which is far more deadly than guns. Anyone who has seen Gangs of New York, or lived in Sydney, knows what I'm saying. See bladecombat.com and morebans.org for all the statistics. In brief, the banners are victims of the law of unintended consequences!

Tim Norris, Prescott, Arizona

More GUNs, Less Crime. Simple as that! Proven by fact over and over. Just look at the states the have liberal CCW laws, vs cities that don't ! AKA NYC vs MIA ???

RAYMOND F KRUEGER, Tilghman, MD

The GUN, like an automobile, is a mechanical, inamate object, incapable of independent action. A human must press the starter to activate the car. A human must also press the trigger to activate a Gun! The difference? Tell me!

Also; common sense shows without doubt, more guns mean less crime....Ask the Swiss, the Isrealis, or the FL, AZ, NV, VT, or any other state that has CCW laws available to their public. Crime rates are low...And, in Isreal, school shootings are anheard of...

RAYMOND F KRUEGER, Tilghman, MD

In response to Vance, I dont see how they can be invalid, America has the highest annual body count for gun crimes in the western community, americas population is roughly 5 times that of the UK with 11,000 annual deaths as a result of guns, the UK, where guns are illegal without highly restricted license and the gun crime rate is roughly 70 deaths per year, it doesn't take a mathmatician to work that one out.

curtis anderson, gloucester, UK

Bloomberg and other neo-Bolsheviks like him know good & damn well that restrictions on gun ownership have absolutely nothing to do with their cities being 'safer'. They know this.

But they think you're too stupid and ignorant to know this. And they bank on your susceptibility to emotional blackmail in order to further their elitist dreams.

It's really not that hard to figure out.

In every single city or metropolitan area across the U.S. that has restrictive firearms ownership/use legislation, violence in almost every category is higher - by a wide margin, than cities with little or no firearms regulation.

We're talking about human nature.

Neo-Utopianists like Bloomberg figure, if they can just pass enough feel-good 'laws' they can bring 'peace' by restricting a citizens every move.

You think gun regulation are the only restrictions they want? Ha!

Left unchecked, these power-mad ego-freaks will run every aspect of your Life!

Count on it.

CC, Santa Clarita, california USA

Bloomberg's organisation has been falling apart since it's first meeting if you'd look at any of the facts about it. Many major city mayors who first agreed to join his group have officially written him to withdraw their support completely.

Reasonable people understand that the Second Amendment to the Constitution is a restriction on the Federal Government to never infringe on the right of individual U.S. Citizens to possess and use arms. This is referred to in scholarly circles as the "traditional" interpretation of this amendment. Any other interpretation (i.e. the "collective" interpretation) was not the original intent of this amendment and didn't enter into scholarly discussion until well after 1900.

Mike, Seattle, U.S.A.

Is bloomberg a nazi?
1928 Germany enacted a "Law on Firearms and Ammunition." It made almost all law abiding firearms owners known to the authorities.
The Nazis used the 1928 Law on Firearms and Ammunition to disarm their opponents and to prevent any armed resistance.
in Germany, as here, a small private elite group wrote and defined the Law.
On March 23, 1933, parliament voted to give Hitler emergency powers under the Constitution.
On March 18 1938, the Nazis enacted a new, tougher, gun control law.
The Nazi Weapons Law (Waffengesetz) ensured that only Nazis and their friends could own or carry weapons.
With strong police state controls over people, (loss of civil rights) gun control was easily enforced.
A disarmed population is helpless. Bureaucrats and obedient civil servants "just doing their job", helped the Nazis carry out their plans.
The Nazi Weapons Law of March 18, 1938 is the blueprint for "Gun Control" in America today.
The essential method of fascist power is that of regulation, restriction, or prohibition of anything the state desires to control individuals.
THE NAZI STYLE GUN CONTROL LAWS WERE ENACTED BY THE FEDERAL CONGRESS AS THE U.S. GUN CONTROL ACT OF 1968.

Mr Stephen Lint, Redding , United States

Meanwhile, those cities with the most outrageously repressive gun laws, like Chicago and Washington, D.C., continue to have the worst murder rates in the nation. Thus I find it almost unbelievable that Mayor Bloomberg is still "stuck on stupid" by continuing down the gun control path.

The reason that the Virginia Tech shooting did not bring a public outcry for more gun laws is simple: the public is smarter than Mayor Bloomberg. More and more average people are beginning to realize that nonsense like "gun-free-zones" not only fail to make anyone safe, they actually contribute to the ease with which deranged killers like Cho can operate.

Wake up, Mr. Mayor.

John Caile, Eden Prairie, Minnesota

I believe Mayor Bloomberg would be a very effective President in the US I attended a Mothers Against Guns anniversary event in 2004 with Elizabeth Goldsmith, the President of the organization and Mayor Bloomberg was there. I think that's when he got involved in trying to keep guns off the streets. It's good to know he was inspired by them to start his own organization against guns, but I think he should reach out and assist Ms. Goldsmith with her intergenerational program - Believers, United, Learning, Loving, and Enduring Together (B.U.L.L.E.T) which could serve as a model program for communities affected by gun violence.

lashawnda, harlem, new york

If Bloomberg's views about gun's in civilian possession were valid New York would be violence free as would Washington, D.C., Detroit, Chicago, etc.. I live in a gun rich city with very little violence, Reno, Nv.. The cities with their restrictive gun laws are islands of violence in an otherwise tranquil sea as about ninety percent of all violent crime are taking place in about one hundred fifty of this NATION'S three thousand counties... According to the info compiled by the F.B.I..

Vance Rushing, Reno, Nevada

If I remember correctly, mayor Bloomberg doesn't live in Gracie Mansion, but at his home on the Upper East Side, although he does use Gracie Mansion as an official meeting spot.

George Carstocea, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Bloomberg is a wolf in sheep's clothing. What more could a billionaire want if not MORE POWER. Do you think he has a grand plan to make the world a better place? As with all super wealthy people.....What do they really know about what I want or need? It's ALL ABOUT THE POWER!

Frank, Houston, Tex