Let's get the gun lobby furious
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:14 pm
http://www.examiner.com/x-2301-Philadel ... by-furious
Philadelphia Police officer John Pawlowski was not killed by Rasheed Scruggs -- he was killed by the .357 pistol that Scruggs was using. Take away that gun and Scruggs is just another thug with his hands in his pockets. And good-looking family man John Pawlowski might be alive today.
Philadelphia has already tried to change the law so that it can enforce its own gun codes inside the city limits. The city lost in the courts because the monumentally well-financed gun lobby came in as a freind of the courts to fight the move. They trotted out the same tired excuses: hunters are law-abiding citizens, guns don't kill, criminals do; we have the guarantee of the Second Amendment.
This is a news flash for that gun lobby: Back when they wrote the second amendment, Americans were still burning women as witches; guns do, indeed kill, just like that .357, and the main prey that is being hunted in Philadelphia right now are human beings, especially police officers.
Philadelphia needs the power to ban the sale and possession of hand guns once and for all.
If that upsets the gun lobby, so be it. Mayor Michael Nutter can't even disguise the hopelessness and disgust in his voice every time he talks about the murder of another policeman. That is understandable; as long as there is such easy access to guns in the city, there can be no safety. Philadelphia should not be forced to abide by the same gun laws that appy to some upstate county where there are more bears than people. To expect the city to do so is madness.
Philadelphia Police officer John Pawlowski was not killed by Rasheed Scruggs -- he was killed by the .357 pistol that Scruggs was using. Take away that gun and Scruggs is just another thug with his hands in his pockets. And good-looking family man John Pawlowski might be alive today.
Philadelphia has already tried to change the law so that it can enforce its own gun codes inside the city limits. The city lost in the courts because the monumentally well-financed gun lobby came in as a freind of the courts to fight the move. They trotted out the same tired excuses: hunters are law-abiding citizens, guns don't kill, criminals do; we have the guarantee of the Second Amendment.
This is a news flash for that gun lobby: Back when they wrote the second amendment, Americans were still burning women as witches; guns do, indeed kill, just like that .357, and the main prey that is being hunted in Philadelphia right now are human beings, especially police officers.
Philadelphia needs the power to ban the sale and possession of hand guns once and for all.
If that upsets the gun lobby, so be it. Mayor Michael Nutter can't even disguise the hopelessness and disgust in his voice every time he talks about the murder of another policeman. That is understandable; as long as there is such easy access to guns in the city, there can be no safety. Philadelphia should not be forced to abide by the same gun laws that appy to some upstate county where there are more bears than people. To expect the city to do so is madness.