Mayor Mike Bloomberg held a press conference late Thursday allegedly to update reporters on the status of three police officers who were injured in two separate shooting incidents. It didn’t take long, though, for Bloomberg to point the finger at Congress. Shocking, we know.
All three NYPD police officers shot tonight are in stable condition, and we're grateful they're going home to their families.
— NYC Mayor's Office (@NYCMayorsOffice) January 4, 2013
But enough about them.
Mayor: Washington is letting the bad guys shoot our police officers, our children, our neighbors – and it just has to stop.
— NYC Mayor's Office (@NYCMayorsOffice) January 4, 2013
Some people say the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. But the good guys sometimes get shot and killed.
— NYC Mayor's Office (@NYCMayorsOffice) January 4, 2013
We owe it to the good guys to do whatever we can to protect them – just as they do whatever they can to protect us.
— NYC Mayor's Office (@NYCMayorsOffice) January 4, 2013
Mayor: you've got to call your Congressman and your Senator and say we're not going to take this gun violence any more.
— NYC Mayor's Office (@NYCMayorsOffice) January 4, 2013
Call and demand a plan, right? And that plan is…
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