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11 Examples of Bloomberg\u2019s Folly on Defensive Gun Use<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg\u00a0was asked how he justified<\/a>\u00a0his push for more stringent gun control when he is guarded by an armed security detail.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg\u2019s response? He is a wealthy businessman and politician who faces threats that normal Americans do not, so it\u2019s just fine for him to pay others to protect him with guns that he\u2019d put the rest of us in prison for possessing.<\/p>\n

The reality is that Bloomberg, as a wealthy white man living in upper-class neighborhoods, is statistically far less likely to be a victim of violent crime than most other Americans.<\/p>\n

But you\u2019d never know it from the way he spends hundreds of millions of dollars advocating gun laws that reserve armed protection for the special few.<\/p>\n

Every day, many Americans without Bloomberg\u2019s wealth and power rely on the Second Amendment\u2014not private security\u2014to defend themselves against threats to their lives and livelihoods. In fact, almost every major study on defensive gun use has found that Americans use their firearms defensively between 500,000 and 3 million times each year.<\/p>\n

Last year, The Daily Signal began a monthly series highlighting just some of the countless times that the right to keep and bear arms made all the difference for ordinary Americans whom Michael Bloomberg wants to disarm. (You can read the stories from\u00a0January 2020 here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

February similarly provided ample evidence in favor of an armed citizenry and against Bloomberg\u2019s claim that only the select few can be trusted with guns.<\/p>\n