Like a lot of people Mayor Bloomberg has called on Obama to stand up to Republicans and the NRA by taking a courageous stand on gun control in his State of the Union address.Obviously it's never going to happen. President Obama will lead on this nation's dangerously primitive and barbaric fetishization of guns when Republicans and the NRA tell him to:
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined gun violence victims Monday calling on President Barack Obama to urge tighter controls on firearms during his State of the Union address. The mayor, a prominent voice in the national debate over guns, said Obama's speech on Tuesday is a chance to act in the aftermath of this month's wounding of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killing of six others in Arizona.
In this week's New Rules Bill Maher blasts Obama for abject cowardice on guns:
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