U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- A major tenant of the Chinese Communist Party is a strict regulation of firearm ownership. They do so under the guise of “protecting human rights” and “reducing gun crimes.” They even criticize the United States for not following their example.
But there’s a connection between CCP antigun propaganda and efforts in the United States and it doesn’t take “six degrees of separation” to see it. The line runs fairly neatly from the CCP, to failed Democratic presidential candidate and billionaire anti-gun crusader Michael Bloomberg and through to his gun control news arm, The Trace. New reporting shows just how strong the connection is.
America’s ‘Dear Leader’
Bloomberg Media’s namesake founder and majority owner, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is a fan of gun control and efforts to enact more of it. Restricting the rights of law-abiding Americans was a platform plank during his abysmal 2020 Democratic presidential bid. During his campaign, Bloomberg claimed it was proper that he employed armed private security services while Americans not cut of his cloth had no legitimate need for similar armed protection. After all, among equals, he was a little more equal because he’s an extremely wealthy businessman and former mayor of a major metropolis.
Asked if his life was more important than that of a town hall audience member, Bloomberg didn’t hesitate. “Alright, look… I probably get forty or fifty threats every week…That just happens when you’re the mayor of New York City, or very wealthy, or campaigning for the president of the United States. You’re gonna get lots of threats.”
With beliefs like that, it’s no surprise Bloomberg’s presidential candidacy flamed out. The $1 billion he spent on gun control efforts to buy more congressional seats and state legislative seats to enact more gun control went up in flames too. Plain and simple, Americans do not support more gun control.
Cozying With Communists
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) pushes anti-gun propaganda and strict ownership restrictions on their citizens and the CCP’s media arm helps. The party’s messaging is pushed on Americans too, saying China’s the shining example to follow because their gun control “saves lives.” In an editorial printed in the CCP’s state-run media outlet, the Global Times, the paper chastised America for their staunch belief in the Second Amendment.
“Washington has been pointing an accusing finger at other countries over human rights … However, more Americans have been killed by gunfire in the country than American soldiers being killed in all U.S. wars,” the Global Times printed. It added “Gun ownership in China is strictly regulated, which helps reduce gun-related crimes and deaths. The U.S. should learn from China and genuinely protect human rights. The U.S. has no other choice but to adopt gun control. The right to life is the most fundamental (of) human rights. The right to bear arms cannot overpower the individual’s right to live.”
Never mind this is the same Communist Chinese Party founded by Mao Zedong, who is accused of murdering 65 million of his own countrymen. The CCP must count Chinese genocide figures differently.
If the gun control rhetoric sounds similar, it should be no surprise. Top-level Bloomberg media executives have been cozying up to high-level CCP leaders for years.
Breitbart reported on several meetings between Bloomberg officials, including Michael Bloomberg himself, and leaders of the CCP and their State Council Information Office, the media arm of the party. Those meetings even included a 2018 visit by Bloomberg News editor-in-chief John Michlethwait to discuss “strengthening media cooperation between China and the U.S.”
Chinese Knockoff
Bloomberg’s antigun efforts include bankrolling the gun control groups Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action, which President Joe Biden used to choose his 2020 running mate. Bloomberg launched his own antigun propaganda media arm masked as “an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit news site.” The Trace launched last year and has already infiltrated major mainstream news outlets through partnerships with USA Today, The New York Times, Slate, and The Atlantic – hardly bastions of pro-Second Amendment thought. The Trace regurgitates familiar gun control angles and arguments while “reporting” on firearm-related topics. They recently sent out a leading questionnaire survey to organizations and companies that do business with firearm companies in order to publish a “name-and-shame” hit piece.
The through-line is crystal clear. The Trace is bankrolled by antigun billionaire Michael Bloomberg and tax records show 70 percent of its funding comes from Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety. John Feinblatt, who heads Everytown for Gun Safety and previously served as a senior advisor to Bloomberg, is the principal officer listed on tax filings for The Trace. Bloomberg and his media company executives have been closely aligned with the CCP and their efforts to impose strict gun control on their people, all in the name of safety and security. Sound familiar?
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With over a billion citizens in China, if they were allowed a second amendment like we have, they wouldn’t stay a communist country for very long as the citizens would rise up and fight the communist party, that’s why they don’t have guns for average citizens.
We our fighting to keep ours so we don’t end up like China.
Absolutely false. If you go into mainland China and ask an average Chinese Citizen they will tell you: they “live in a great, free country, and you should move here you will love it!” Cognitive dissidence is not confined to ‘merica…
Neither are the cognitively deficient that suffer from Moronic Imbecilism, AKA Democrats.
Then why are they coming here ?
Hitler, stalin, mao, pol pot, idi amine ALL regulated, registered and then confiscated firearms “For a kinder, gentler nation”. And the world lived happy ever after. Unless you were among the 120 MILLION people who were murdered by their own government. Surrender your firearms, ammo and magazines at your own peril.
Arm up and carry on.
Awesome article. Glad we here at Mom-At-Arms could provide the research for you.
https://www.mom-at-arms.com/post/everytown-exists-because-of-a-man-with-friendly-relations-to-the-chinese-communist-party
https://bearingarms.com/mom-at-arms/2021/05/20/everytowns-chinese-communist-party-connection-n45469
It never fails to amaze me how people like Bloomberg, whose family fled Lithuania’s totalitarian government (following subjugation by the Germans, Poles and Russians), make their fortune via the freedoms and opportunities of American capitalism, then work tirelessly to return the USA into a perfect (sic) model of what their families fled prior to coming to America.
History…..learn from it; be doomed to re-live it; or die from it. He didn’t; he is; he may. Class dismissed.
send him to china to live ,
Bloomberg should have been jailed as traitor years ago
I used to think that he was a Communist, but thought it was just my imagination, but the truth has come out and I find out that I’ve been right all along. He wants to disarm us/US so his friends in the CCP can just walk in and take over, that stinking SOB.
And that direct line from Beijing leads directly through Gabby Giffords to her comrade Cosmonaut Mark Kelly. We must connect the dots. Kelly has been directly and indirectly tied to the CCP since he left the Space Cadets. Pass the word. All of his nice guy ads and all of his hiding from the press and open events is simply a ruse to put the CCP in a Senate seat. He is a communist and a traitor through and through.
A Christian Missionary in China related the following many years ago. “ When the Communists came to power, they were very helpful at first. They told the people turn in you weapons. We will protect you. You won’t need them.” The people complied. After that, we learned the true nature of Bolshevik terror!
Those who surrender a little bit of liberty for a little bit of security deserve neither.
“¿Armas, para que?” F.C.
“Alright, look… I probably get forty or fifty threats every week…That just happens when you’re the mayor of New York City, or very wealthy, or campaigning for the president of the United States. You’re gonna get lots of threats.”
Probably has something to do with a combination of that and wanting to take away people’s rights.
It should be a major tenet, not “tenant.”
I’ll bet autocorrect had something to do with that.
Haha! Yeah, Auto”correct”
There have been many examples of what happens to honest law abiding citizens once the government takes the guns away throughout Europe and Asia during that bloody twentieth century. The bloodiest century in mankind’s history. Over 170 million citizens were rounded up and systematically murdered in many different ways. Some were marched to open pits and shot execution style while others were starved to death, beaten to death or gassed like hitler did in Germany. It is said Mao murdered over two hundred million Chinese (however that number cannot be confirmed because of the communist state still existing to this day). Those murdered were seen… Read more »
. . . WELL! It’s more than just “gun control” in China . . . all the Muslims are in concentration camps. What would Xi Jinping do if he had Blacks shooting up all his cities! Would he ignore it and yell WHITE SUPREMACY? He doesn’t need statistics generated by such carnage to justify citizen disarmament, like they do here in America, because taking these inner city minority gang shootings and crime out of “gun violence” statistics, AMERICA, FOR ALL IT’S GUNS, IS AMONG THE SAFEST OF NATIONS! Xi would probably put Blacks in the camps with Muslims. There you… Read more »