As Howard Nemerov wrote on June 21, an anti-gun participant in Concord, New Hampshire listed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston bomber, as a victim of gun violence. The rally was held on June 18 rally by Mayors Against Illegal Guns as part of their “No More Names” tour. According to the New Hampshire Union Leader:
The event had people supporting the Mayors Against Illegal Guns movement, founded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, reading the names of those “killed with guns” since the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary outside their “No More Names” bus.
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Rally organizers, whose bus had Texas license plates, refused to speak to a New Hampshire Union Leader reporter and referred him to the organization’s national headquarters.
Some of the loudest shouts came when a reader spoke the name of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who was killed by police during a gunfight.
As National Review’s Jim Geraghty aptly noted in his June 20 post, “aren’t you forgetting that little matter of his brother [Dzhokhar] running him over with an SUV?” Now, Jessica Chasmar at the Washington Times wrote yesterday that Mayors Against Illegal Guns issued an apology. It’s one of those honest mistake moments. Yet, according to:
N.H. Sen. Kelly Ayotte’s office, this isn’t the first time the group listed him [Tamerlan Tsarnaev] as a victim. They also listed suicides and high-profile criminals, such as deceased cop-killer Christopher Dorner.
In a letter to N.H. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, the group urges the Republican “to consider your opposition to the bipartisan Manchin-Toomey background check compromise.”
“More than 6,000 Americans have been murdered with guns in the six months since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. Enclosed are the names of 5,026 who we were able to identify.”
The list they were using was compiled by Slate, which is a Washington Post affiliated site. It’s also a place where blog posts saying offensive tweets are worse than drunk driving are published. It seems the lust to reboot gun control monomania in America has liberals including the cop-killers and the terrorists.
UPDATE: Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner wrote on June 21 that one in twelve “victims” on Bloomberg’s gun violence victims list is a criminal.
A preliminary analysis of the list of shooting “victims” New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s group Mayors Against Illegal Guns is reading at rallies for new gun control laws finds that one in 12 are crime suspects killed by police or armed citizens acting in self-defense.
The review of 617 killings found that 50 were suspects in crimes ranging from assault to murder, not the type of violence Bloomberg’s group suggests in its “No More Names” campaign to draw attention to the estimated 6,000 gun death “tragedies” since the mid-December Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newton, Conn.
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Examples found include an Ohio man shot by police while he was holding a gun in another man’s face, and a 79-year-old Indiana man who shot a 19-year-old who was attacking his granddaughter.
A separate analysis looked at 13 gun deaths in Montana listed on the Slate list used by Bloomberg’s group. It found that more than half were the result of police shootings or suicide.
Get well soon, liberals.
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