Michael Bloomberg and the Victim Disarmament movement are going to make as much hay as they can on the issue this year…<\/p>\n
…because\u00a0 their highest profile group is fading away as we speak<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u00a0As it has broadened its attacks on lawmakers and Second Amendment groups like the National Rifle Association<\/a>, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s<\/a> aggressive \u201cMayors Against Illegal Guns<\/a>\u201d group has experienced a sharp 15-percent drop in mayor-members.<\/p>\n According to a new count, the group\u2019s membership has gone from a high of 1,046 following the shootings at Newtown, Conn.\u2019s Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012 to a low today of 885.<\/p>\n That\u2019s a fast drop of 161 members.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Watching what happened in Colorado and, yes, Minnesota has given a lot of mayors a reality check; support for Victim Disarmament is a half a mile wide and two inches deep.\u00a0 The Second Amendment movement is half a mile wide and 200 feet deep and has a current that’ll pull stumps.\u00a0<\/p>\n Although some of the mayors are attributing it to Bloomberg’s greedy scope creep:<\/p>\n As they\u2019ve left MAIG, many of the mayors have publicly assailed Bloomberg\u2019s group, suggesting that it has gone from a group targeting \u201cillegal\u201d guns to one simply against guns.<\/p>\n The \u201coriginal mission swayed,\u201d said Rockford, Ill., Mayor Larry Morrissey as he exited. He even explained that he planned to get a concealed carry permit because his family has been threatened.<\/p>\n