New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is worried about you and me. Why else would the good mayor send New York City agents in a covert action to conduct what he called a "sting" at gun shows in a few states other than his own including the Volunteer State?

Now I put the word sting in quotes because the mayor's actions were anything but the classic definition of that word as used in law enforcement. For a true sting is an operation used to expose a criminal action. Bloomberg's secretive work did nothing but note legal actions that are in opposition to his political ideology. Especially that part of his ideology which seeks to deny Americans their rights as guaranteed by the second amendment to the U. S. constitution.

The New York politician says he will send a report of the results of his so-called investigation to the federal agencies charged with enforcing gun laws, (more rightly called anti-gun laws), about what he calls a loophole that allows criminals to obtain guns in Tennessee and other places.

Once more Bloomberg is playing loosely with the true definition of a word. This time the word is loophole. For the use of a loophole in a law is not a crime, but rather is the proper implementation of that law just as it is written. A loophole is bad only to people who disagree with the law.
So Bloomberg says he will report the obedience of a law to those charged with its enforcement. Man, the good mayor is really sharp! No wonder he got elected in New York.

So why did Bloomberg undertake his actions? Does he hate guns so much that he is willing to send his employees on what many consider a criminal action, the deceitful buying of firearms by lying to the sellers in order to say, "Gotcha?" If not for that reason, perhaps the answer lies in the stir Bloomberg's actions caused in Tennessee politics, especially in the race for the Republican nomination for governor.

So why would he want to interfere in that process?
Could it be that Bloomberg thought making the ownership of firearms look evil would help a certain fellow mayor and candidate for that nomination who is having a bit of trouble because of his perceived wrong stance on gun rights. That perception comes because the candidate once helped Bloomberg form an organization of mayors dedicated to removing the availability of guns to criminals. That in itself is an admirable goal except that many considered it to be a thinly disguised effort to deny firearms to everyone.

Such exposes a colossal flaw in Bloomberg's ideology; the belief that criminals will submit to gun laws. And it raises the question of whether that Tennessee mayor is a closet believer in that same wrong-headed thinking.

If so he will find himself holding the short straw on that issue among Tennesseans. To his credit that man removed himself from that gun-rights limiting organization. But many question his motives for doing so because he took that action only when his involvement became public knowledge and began to hurt his chances to become our next governor.

Mayor Bloomberg has no vote in Tennessee and no business involving himself in Volunteer State politics. He instead should spend his time working for the people who elected him. Surely his policies are not all perfectly fulfilled with no room for further work.
If nothing else he could spend his time cleaning what is surely the filthiest city in America.

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