Bloomberg

Mayor Bloomberg, for all his New York savvy, is crest-coasting and missing a key ingredient in his assertions that the Presidential candidates should both address the issue of control of assault weapons.  His liberal, almost San Fransisco views are skewed toward the way the cash flush live.  He is unschooled in the understrength and current of substance ingrained in most of Middle America. 

Space premiums in his constituency drive a far different valuation of security than he would find beyond his city limits.  In central Pennsylvania, Western Tennessee, Colorado and Arizona, the numbers of humans per square foot is vastly lower.  The dumpiest piece of NYC real estate is of value due to the location and its demand.  There is, nonetheless, some avoidable real estate in New York City.  Here, for certain, serious crime flourishes, the turf unworthy of even basic surveillance equipment except to record its lowlife traffic. 

For the Mayor, the sad truth is this:  There is far greater incentive among 2nd Amendment proponents outside Gotham to own such guns for protection and preservation than there is agreement with his assertions.  These people remain sensitive to things New Yorkers no longer notice.  The trade-off in terms of what they value in life is such that to reside in that city is a choice they would never make.  Nothing could lure them to that environment. 

Most of us out here have a perspective on politicians, police and media that serves a survival instinct of even greater importance than avoiding a gun nut on a murder spree.  In our politicians, bankers, police departments and news media, we discern a collusion intended to hide their misdeeds and protect themselves with force sprung on us with the same advantage of surprise as the heavily armored "scientist" deployed at the premier of the Dark Knight Rises. 

The only thing, in the view of most of these 2nd Amendment defenders, that seperates the gunman from the colluding, big city collective of self-preserving thugs is singularity.  The ungodly scheme that actualized on Friday night was conducted by a solitary misanthrope.  City Government, Police, Media and Financiers, in fact, share that shooter's contempt for people and equip themselves, moreover arm themselves and as a way of life, scheme to outwit by all means available to themselves, to preserve what they consider theirs.  In a crisis, the coalition of Haves would be every bit as ruthless in their choices, and Middle America, scorned as bitterly clinging to their guns, knows that.  The Bail-Out of 2008 proved it. 

We risk OURS and lose, WE lose.  The "Club" risks OURS and loses, WE endemnify THEM but we LOSE what we paid them to protect, invest and police in our interest.  Do we suppose for an instant that they wouldn't move to exploit an unarmed population?  It matters less what they say and do behind closed doors and more that We the People are neither surprised nor proven wrong about our low opinion of them, Hope notwithstanding.

I believe now, more than ever, that it must be legal for American Citizens to own and be prepared to use assault weapons.  The behavior of the political class, obviously NOT concerned with the will, best interests or prosperity of the People, has made it clear that we must have the same means of defending ourselves as those who cut deals in back rooms while telling us they are a NEW kind of politician.