BN DC Mayor Muriel Bowser + Bloomberg Bus Tour Greeted by Major Protest in VA

Top: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser stumped for presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg in Arlington on February 9, 2020.. Graham Vyse / DCist The Bloomberg gun safety bus tour was met by several hundred anti-gun control protesters, when they arrived at the new Bloomberg 2020 Campaign office.

The Bloomberg Campaign’s bus tour from Florida to Virginia wrapped up Sunday evening in Arlington, VA, a Democratic stronghold in the March 3 Super Tuesday state. Dozens of Bloomberg supporters — several from Mike’s 6 million strong Moms Demand Action — joined with Bloomberg endorser DC mayor Muriel Bowser to rally around the critical issue of gun safety.

The campaign was celebrating an official opening celebration for its new Arlington office at Pentagon Row after also touring Hampton Roads and Richmond. Bowser joined senior Bloomberg advisor Debbie Weir, as well as Calandrian Simpson Kemp and her husband George Kemp of Mike’s Superbowl ad against gun violence, who left on the bus tour from Orlando on Monday evening.

Waiting for the bus arrival in Arlington was a crowd of angry pro-gun rights protesters holding signs like “WE WILL NOT COMPLY.” “They waved the Stars and Stripes, hoisted the “DONT TREAD ON ME” Gadsden flag, and chanted Virginia’s state motto, “Sic semper tyrannis,” as an ominous warning to would-be tyrants,” writes The Dcist.

“When we got off the bus I thought we might be in the wrong place,” a smiling Bowser told at least a hundred people in the Bloomberg office a few minutes later, “because they told me Virginia is for lovers.”

“Bowser appears ready for the long fight — both for Bloomberg in 2020 and on the issue of gun violence. In fact, writes The DCist.

“Her prominence in Bloomberg’s campaign has raised the prospect that she could have a role in his presidential administration, perhaps even as vice president. But when DCist tried to gauge her interest, she fell back on a familiar refrain. “I have the best job in Washington, D.C. I’m the mayor of my hometown,” she said, before immediately ending the interview.”

By the end of the evening, several hundred protesters gathered at the new Arlington Bloomberg campaign office. Several protesters actually crashed the event and took over the podium before the sound-system drowned them out with “Praise You” by Fatboy Slim. 

Mike Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety, last year outspent the previously feared National Rifle Association roughly 8 to 1 in Virginia. As a result, Bloomberg is credited with flipping the state legislature to Democratic control in November 2019.

NRA Puts Nancy Pelosi + Gaby Giffords Out For Target Practice. Will Sandy Hook Ruling Dampen Their Machismo?

The National Rifle Association left little to the imagination in their March 2019 issue of American Rifleman, citing Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and gun control advocate, former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Gifford — herself an assault rifle victim — as in the line of fire and perhaps in need of a little target practice.

On Feb. 18th, US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson found herself in the crosshairs after rejecting Roger Stone’s effort to get his case reassigned to a new judge. A target symbol appeared next to Judge Jackson’s head.

Stone later shared a statement — which he reiterated when reached by BuzzFeed News — saying, "This was random photo taken from the internet .Any [sic] inference that this was meant to somehow threaten the Judge or disrespect court is categorically false."

There’s no doubt that these are macho men. The white nationalist assassin from Australia who Facebook livestreamed with his assault on two New Zealand mosques Friday is also a macho man. that currently leaves 50 dead and 50 hospitalized — many in critical condition.

On Thusday, March 14th, the Connecticut Supreme Court overturned a lower-court ruling, agreeng with Connecticut’s Sandy Hook families that the marketing employed by Remington Arms, a major manufacturer of deadly assault rifles and specifically the AF15, was so aggregious in appealing to men’s “killer instincts” that it transgressed against federal immunity laws that protect gun manufacturers from liability.

Connecticut law, the court wrote in the majority opinion, "does not permit advertisements that promote or encourage violent, criminal behavior." While federal law does offer protection for gun manufacturers, the majority wrote, "Congress did not intend to immunize firearms suppliers who engage in truly unethical and irresponsible marketing practices promoting criminal conduct, and given that statutes such as CUTPA are the only means available to address those types of wrongs, it falls to a jury to decide whether the promotional schemes alleged in the present case rise to the level of illegal trade practices and whether fault for the tragedy can be laid at their feet."

The NRA and Roger Stone will swear on a Bible that their words and pictures aren’t really meant to incite violence against Nancy Pelosi and Gaggy Giffords. We’re just clutching our pearls!! But if the US Supreme Court let’s the Connecticut Supreme Court decision stand, we might find fewer prominent women in the crosshairs of America’s macho men. Given Gabby Giffords permanent brain disability, and the mounting dead carcasses at the hands of testosterone-infused nationalists worldwide, we have every right to be concerned. One social conservative determined to kill me for supporting Planned Parenthood on TV is enough.

Read on in Salon. Sandy Hook Lawsuit Court Victory Opens Crack In Gun Maker Immunity Shield