Tom: Mayor Bloomberg has confirmed, by his proposal, that the role of the police is not to protect the citizenry, but to enforce — against the public — the partisan political policies of those in power. Perhaps the mayor is recalling the year 1945, when then-mayor LaGuardia went on the radio to read the Sunday comics to children during a strike by newspaper deliverymen. In response to gun-control advocates — who want to limit the killing of innocents to murders committed by American soldiers n foreign countries — gun sales have (according to one news report) gone up by 40%. … Continue reading The Mayor Strikes Out