Michael Bloomberg: Gun control will only happen when citizens start demanding it from their reps

ADAM EDELMAN

The only way Congress will ever pass gun control reform is if Americans demand it from their representatives, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday.

Bloomberg has committed $50 million of his own money to combat gun violence in the U.S., but even he admitted the only way the group will effect change is if people go out of their way to demand it from the government.

“I want to make sure that the public gets together, tells the Congress and their state legislatures, ‘We want reasonable background checks,’” Bloomberg said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We don't want to end the Second Amendment. This is nothing about gun control, it is about just making sure three groups that 80% or 90% of the public thinks should not have guns don't get them.”


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