By Police1 Staff
NEW YORK — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has softened his comments suggesting cops go on strike for stricter gun control.
“I don’t understand why the police officers across this country don’t stand up collectively and say we’re going to go on strike,” Bloomberg originally told CNN’s Piers Morgan Monday in the aftermath of the tragedy in Aurora, Colo.
A day later, he distanced himself from the statement, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“I didn’t mean literally go on strike,” he said at a Tuesday event about same-sex marriage and economics. “In fact, in New York, they can’t go on strike. There’s a law against it.”
Bloomberg didn’t, however, back off on criticisms of President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney for refusing to talk about gun control in the wake of the shooting.
The original comment “was a statement of frustration on the part of the mayor and frustration that we all feel that there is inadequate gun control in this country,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.