Op-Ed: Mayor Bloomberg's Arizona Gun Show P.R. Stunt
3:00pm Tuesday, February 22, 2011
by John Lott New York City's murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault rates rose last year according to preliminary FBI data, with murders alone increasing by more than 12 percent. But instead of concentrating on crime in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg just spent $100,000 of the NYPD's budget sending police to Arizona to buy guns at a gun show. The "sting" was a waste of money that misleads...