By Chad D. Baus

Judging by the events of the past week, it’s a good thing for billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg that he uses taxpayer funds to hire others to carry guns for his protection (even when he’s visiting his mansion in the “no guns” country of Bermuda). If he carried a gun himself, he’d constantly be shooting himself in the foot.

Take for example Bloomberg’s reaction when news that a car bomb had been activated, but failed to detonate in the middle of Times Square. The part-time Republican, who heads the gun control front group run Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), quickly ran to the CBS Evening News and speculated before a national audience that the bomb could have been placed by “somebody with a political agenda who doesn’t like the health care bill or something.”

The following day, the world learned that the terror-bomb suspect was a Pakistani-born naturalized American named Faisal Shahzad. (That sound you just heard was Bloomberg firing a round into his own foot.)

Rather than apologize for having profiled a whole group of patriotic Americans, Bloomberg instead quickly announced that he “will not tolerate any bias” or backlash against Muslim Americans following the attempted attack, noting that “a few bad apples” exist among all cultural ethnicities. (That sound you just heard was Bloomberg firing a second round into his own foot.) I guarantee he’d never have uttered that “few bad apples” line had the suspect turned out to be a 40 year-old white TEA party member from Topeka.

The third self-inflicted wound came after authorities disclosed that a firearm was recovered from Shahzad’s car – left parked at Kennedy International Airport when he was apprehended trying to flee the country.