Let's get the gun lobby furious

[Tim Nunan]

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.

[ProguninTN]

[SomeGuy]

Sounds like Philadelphia is wanting different laws because they have fewer bears.

Simple solution: Import more bears.

[David Lewis]

I support the right to keep and arm bears.

David

[backwoodsman]

well if he hadn't had the pistol he would have just run him over with his car, or beat him with a baseball bat, or stabbed him, the point is criminal intent is just that, criminal, the weapon matter's not, the deed will be done with what's available, if they had been in a rock quarry ,it would have been a rock to the head. ask the people in england. funny how england still has murder by gun's even tho all guns have been confiscated and are illegal,,hmmmmmm, which by the way, they probably have the highest incident of stabbings than any where else in the world, i guess knives are next to go, then baseball bats,and plumbing fixture's, i personally hate those evil plumbing fixture's!

[johnharris]

Plumbing fixtures are easy to conceal as well.

[ProguninTN]

[C. Richard Archie]

I think maybe everyone is missing the point. The establishment of a Police State, where only the Government has weapons is the intent. By whatever means required, to convince the sheep that the gun is the causal agent, rendering each of us impotent to protect our own lives, that is the end game.

[KevinMcCauley]

I went and saw John Stewert (of The Daily Show) when he came to the Ryman. While I am not a fan of liberal politics, I am a fan of funny...and he's hilarious. Obviously I disagree with many things he believes in but...He had a few words of wisdom (if only his more rabid fans would take it to heart):

"If guns were banned today there would be a 1,000% increase in bludgeonings tomorrow." - John Stewert

[KevinMcCauley]