For Bloomberg, Gun Control Fight Shifts to State Capitals

[Robb]

2. It's called fighting fire with fire.

Unless you embrace the fiction that the NRA's funding is a grassroots phenomenon, in which case I don't know what to say.

But the NRA and other man-gun-love groups receive tens of millions in donations each year from manufacturers of firearms and ammunition. There is no natural corollary to direct action funded by big business in a system that requires money to win.

You can lament the system, but you cannot fault Bloomberg for using his own money to give voice to the majority of Americans who are drowned out by the money spent by gun manufacturers to ensure only their message is heard.