Michael Bloomberg’s Super Bowl gun control ad was rejected by NRA members and top Democrat strategists as well.
The ad cost Bloomberg $10 million and it
pushed gun control in response to the 2013 shooting death of 20-year-old George Kemp.
Bloomberg’s ad did not mention a September 27, 2013,
Houston Chronicle report that Kemp was shot just around midnight after allegedly pulling into a Richmond, Texas, neighborhood, calling an individual on his cell phone, and challenging him to a fight.
The ad’s purpose was to push gun control, period, and negative responses to the ad came quickly.
NRA members, gathered at the Great American Outdoor Show, responded to Bloomberg by explaining that he has no say in the way they exercise their Second Amendment rights, especially when it comes to defending their own lives.
An NRA member observed, “Mike Bloomberg is a white billionaire who has no place in telling me how I can defend myself or my loved ones.”
And a mother named Ashley Boop flatly rejected Bloomberg’s push as well. She said, “As a mother of three-year-old little boy, my family means everything to me. As a woman, I believe the best way to protect myself is with a firearm.