The Times’ David Chen is on a tear (“Declaring that ‘we love the rich people,’ Mr. Bloomberg has opposed capping executive pay, increasing the capital gains tax or raising income taxes on the wealthy”), and Michael Barbaro joins in:

Want to stay safe in New York City? If Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s theory is right, you may want to surround yourself with readers of The Wall Street Journal.

During a television interview about gun control on Monday, Mr. Bloomberg suggested that the titans of American capitalism who subscribe to the newspaper are simply not the homicidal kind.

“I don’t know how to break this to you,” he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, “but people that go out and murder people don’t read The Wall Street Journal.”

The claim drew consternation from criminologists, who quickly ticked off a long list of financiers — and presumptive Wall Street Journal readers — who have, in fact, murdered people.

Take the case of Scott Schneiderman, a failed stockbroker in New York who was convicted in the 1997 murder of a police officer after a botched robbery.

Or Richard Robert Russo, a senior vice president at Smith Barney in California, who killed his wife after discovering she was having an affair.

Or Joseph H. Ludlam Jr., a fired stockbroker in Virginia, who shot his former boss at work.

Don’t forget Clyde Haberman, either: “[L]et’s review Mr. Bloomberg’s habit of resorting to self-serving expediency while calling it pragmatism.”

So, yes, even though the New York Times op-ed board shamefully rolled over for Bloomberg, at least some of the people actually reporting the news, or writing for the paper, haven’t.