Mike Bloomberg Releases $10 Million Super Bowl Ad

Mike Bloomberg has released his Super Bowl Sunday advertisement.

The $10 million ad features a mother, Calandrian Simpson Kemp, who lost her 20-year-old son to gun violence. In it, she details the tragic loss of her son and why she supports Mike Bloomberg.  Simpson Kemp says that Bloomberg is not afraid to stand up to the gun lobby and will fight against gun violence.

Simpson Kemp was a part of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.  This group joined with Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns in order to form Everytown in 2013.

“Lives are being lost every day,” says Simpson Kemp in the ad. “It is a national crisis.” She tells the AP that she first met Bloomberg in 2015 and liked that he made gun violence a signature issue. Among other things, he spent more than $100 million in 2018 backing midterm candidates aligned on the issue. Bloomberg gave Simpson Kemp a ticket to Sunday’s game, and she notes to the AP that her son, George Kemp, dreamed of playing in the NFL. “When I walk into that stadium and sit in that seat,” she said she will be able to “tell my son that he made it. Indirectly, he has made it.”

Near the end of the ad, Simpson Kemp said, “Mike’s fighting for every child because you have the right to live.  No one has a right to take your hopes and dreams.”

If only this were true.  Oh, the irony of saying Mike is fighting for every child and their hopes and dreams.  What about the unborn, Mr. Bloomberg?

It is reported by The National Review that Bloomberg has allegedly been hostile to pregnant employees and even told one employee who was pregnant to “kill it”.

Also, according to Newsmax,

Bloomberg is one of the most radical pro-abortion politicians in American history. When he first ran for mayor of New York in 2001, he pledged to force everyone training to become an obstetrician or a gynecologist in a city hospital to learn how to perform an abortion.

Frankly, the ad is moving.  Who doesn’t feel deep compassion for a mother who has to bury her son?  It is awful and horrific to lose a child and even more so to something so senseless as gun violence.  I feel deep empathy for Simpson Kemp and understand why she has such strong feelings about gun control.

However, it is misguided on the part of Bloomberg to attack guns and gun owners for the acts of a small number of lawless and evil people.  Of course no one wants criminals to have guns or for there to be illegally owned guns on the streets.

Bloomberg’s policy proposals simply attack the Second Amendment rights of everyone.  They attack the law-abiding gun owner rather than violent criminals.

The Daily Wire reported on Bloomberg’s extreme anti-gun agenda in December 2019.

Speaking in Colorado, Bloomberg called for criminalizing transfers of firearms, increasing the age required to purchase firearms, a multi-day waiting period when purchasing firearms, unconstitutional red flag laws that allow the government to confiscate a person’s firearms without due process, and banning semi-automatic firearms.

Bloomberg also essentially proposed a national firearm registry by calling for a gun licensing system and universal background checks.

Americans can agree that gun violence is tragic and we all desire to prevent gun violence.

However, there is sincere disagreement about what is the best way to reduce gun violence.

Conservatives advocate for tough laws and penalties for violent criminals as well as allowing law-abiding citizens to arm themselves for self-protection and general deterrence.  Any action that is taken to reduce gun violence must not infringe upon our Second Amendment rights.