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ILA STORY

BLOOMBERG SETS

PRESIDENTIAL SIGHTS

UPON SECOND

AMENDMENT

his past November, as Americans were Think about that, Bloomberg is so desperate
preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving, to control your freedoms, he’s bombarding
T Michael Bloomberg, like the royalty of teenagers who aren’t even old enough to vote
old, rode a $34-million media carriage into the with propaganda about how great he is (and
2020 Democratic Presidential race. Surrounded how evil your rights are, of course).
by armed lackies and fueled by bad ideas, We need no introduction to Mike Bloomberg.
Bloomberg proclaimed a singular purpose: to As the country’s leading pusher of gun control
oppress your freedoms in ways that he would and spineless politicians, every patriotic
never oppress his own. supporter of the Second Amendment knows
The immediate reaction was telling: Bloomberg and his elitist agenda. New Yorkers
“Michael Bloomberg is making a bet about like myself know Bloomberg for the nanny-state
democracy in 2020—he doesn’t need people, he nonsense he imposed against large fountain
only needs bags and bags of money,” said one sodas, trans fats and table salt.
politician at a campaign stop in Iowa. My fellow NRA members in Appalachia may
Another politician put it this way: better know him for his campaign to close every
“What I would say to Michael Bloomberg coal-fired power plant in the United States.
and other billionaires: ‘Sorry. You ain’t gonna Way to go, Bloomberg—instead of
buy this election.’” courageously prosecuting actual
Who were these voices criticizing criminals and creating jobs, you just
Bloomberg’s intent to buy his way into our invented silly new crimes and
homes and the White House? These were destroyed American industry.
Photo by Thomas Peipert/AP Images take our word for it; even some of the most anti- rights? $1 million?
So how much will
not the criticisms of conservative politicians,
but Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders,
Bloomberg spend to
respectively. That’s right—you no longer need to
restrict your gun
gun Democrats know the threat that Bloomberg
poses to your freedoms in this election.
But how much notoriety can $34 million
actually buy a politician in one week? The
answer might surprise you. According to one
ILA staffer, Bloomberg’s ads weren’t just running
on your news stations; the staffer’s 15-year-old
son saw more than a half-dozen Bloomberg
ads running on YouTube channels aimed
at teenage video-game enthusiasts.

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