CCRKBA To Bloomberg: 'It's The Criminals, Stupid' Four high-profile stabbings within 24 hours in New York City prompted the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) to issue a press release predicting Mayor Michael Bloomberg will start campaigning for knife control laws. “I fully expect the mayor to start ranting about ‘crime knives’ and how the nation needs a law to stop ‘illegal blades’ from being smuggled in from other states with lax cutlery laws,” said Alan Gottlieb, CCRKBA chairman. “I say to Bloomberg, ‘It’s not guns, or knives, it’s the criminals, stupid!’ Read CCRKBA's press release.