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"We are not overreacting. We are killing our kids, killing our police officers, killing you and me -- there are too many guns in the streets," Bloomberg said in his morning radio show.

"If we don't prosecute [him] to the fullest extent of the law, I don't know who on Earth we would," he continued. "It makes a sham, a mockery of the law. And it's pretty hard to argue the guy didn't have a gun and that it wasn't loaded."

"I'm not picking on Plaxico, I don't even know if I met the guy. But the bottom line is that the law should apply to everyone. To take a gun into a crowded nightclub where people drink and push each other around. There's a reason for this law. It is to convince you to not do this. There's nothing to do with him."