i leave with you one other thought. people who use the term sportsman don t need a .38 clip .38 bullet clips in their handgun. thank you, michael bloomberg. coming up, you ve heard of a state flower or a state bird. but have you heard of a state gun? the utah house passes a bill to make the browning m-1911 firearm a state symbol, and by doing so gets tonight s rewrite. and over 400 rabbis call for an end to nazi and holocaust references by glenn beck and fox news. we ll talk with two rabbis who don t agree on the beck issue. remarkably the state of utah votes to glorify guns by naming a state gun. that earns tonight s rewrite. and later, 400 rabbis take out a full-page ad to try to shame fox and glenn beck to stop his repeated perversion of the memory of the holocaust. we ll talk to two rabbis who see the glenn beck nazi issue differently. time for tonight s rewrite. as the list of republicans probably maybe most likely running for the white house next year grows, s
according to the sponsor of this legislation, republican representative carl wimmer, this bill honoring the gun and its utah native inventor, john moses browning, is an appropriate and fitting tribute to a utah icon. this firearm has defended liberty and freedom. the same firearm, of course, has also wantonly murdered an untold number of innocent people since it was introduced 100 years ago. but there are voices of reason in the utah state house. one of them democratic representative carol moss, who was among the first to oppose this legislation, saying, someone once gave me this advice don t speak against guns. now i m going to break that advice. it seems insensitive at this time when people are mourning the death of six people in tucson and the serious wounding of congresswoman gabby giffords, a friend of mine. salt lake tribune reporter david montero told us during the
guns, ammunition. two words that did not show up in president obama s state of the union address. senior adviser david plouffe promises the president will address the issue of gun control at a later date. but some think the president missed an important opportunity, including the mayor of new york. mayor michael bloomberg began his fight for stricter gun control laws in the spring of 2006. after the tragic shooting in tucson that left six people dead, mayor bloomberg has renewed his commitment to that mission. a child in america has 12 times the chance of getting killed by a gun than they do if they live in western europe. just think about that. congress has been unwilling to fix it.
the truth of the matter is these are human beings. and the toughest thing i have to do is go to a hospital, try to get there before the parents or the spouse or the children get there, and i take it on as my responsibility as mayor to look them in the eye and tell them that their loved one s never coming home. and you do that, you really start to understand this is not just numbers, it s not just slogans, it s not just business, this is human life. these are people who are on this earth along with you and me and they have a right to live safely. and we talk about democracy. democracy is being able to walk the streets not looking over your shoulder. and if everybody s armed, i don t think you re going to be able to have that. but particularly if you let guns go to the hands of these people who just don t have the wherewithal or the credentials under existing federal law to own a gun. an eloquent last word on this subject tonight. mr. mayor, thank you very much for joining me once agai
list. you know 2012 is just around the corner, and pundits are falling over themselves to handicap the race. will the gop choose mitt romney, sarah palin, or just a gun with a flag pin? a gun with a flag pin might poll quite well in mitt romney s home state, utah, where late yesterday the utah state house voted 51-19 in favor of making this gun, the browning m-1911, the official state gun. don t remember learning your official state gun when you were in elementary school? that s because your state has no state gun. no state has an official state gun. utah would be the first state to equate a gun with flowers, birds, trees, vegetables, farm animals, and all the other things that states officially adopt as theirs.