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Michael Bloomberg’s recent comments about guns and minorities, according to Aspen Times<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Bloomberg claimed that 95 percent of murders fall into a specific category: male, minority and between the ages of 15 and 25. Cities need to get guns out of this group\u2019s hands and keep them alive, he said. \u201cThese kids think they\u2019re going to get killed anyway because all their friends are getting killed,\u201d Bloomberg said. \u201cThey just don\u2019t have any long-term focus or anything. It\u2019s a joke to have a gun. It\u2019s a joke to pull a trigger.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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