A newspaper columnist in Philadelphia continues to blame firearms makers and "the gun lobby" (that would be you and me) instead of criminals and Mayor Nutter's failed policies for the rampant crime in "The City of Brotherly Love."
If the Founds could hear what is being spewed from the city where this nation's "declaration" was conceived . . . well, there is a certain spinning sound coming from certain graveyards in the northeast U.S. tonight (and has been since this whole gun control/people control nonsense picked up steam)."And still the struggle remains for sane gun restrictions to compensate for the kind of beast among us we don't know how to contain, the vicious predators who speak with bullets and kill with ease."
Sane? What is sane? Einstein said the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different outcome. Continual restrictions on gun ownership has done nothing. Why don't you get that Ms. Porter? As far as "not knowing how to contain the viscious predators?" Sure you do. Your politicians just don't have the guts to do what needs to be done.
"What will it take, you have to wonder, for things to change?"
Uh, I think I said that before. It takes guts. And a willingness to accept that its not the guns you should fear but the predators, the animals who hold them and whom YOU let hold your city hostage.
"How many police officers - husbands, brothers, fathers, sons, neighbors, colleagues - have to be sacrificed to this rampant perversity?"
Yes, you should ask that. While you twiddle, twoddle and resolve, nothing's ever solved (in Philadelphia). Ask Mayor Nutter why he does not act to do more on street crime instead of working further to confiscate or register the firearms of the tens, if not hundreds of thousands of honest, hard-working taxpayers in Philadelphia who keep a firearm for self defense, or recreation, or for collecting?
"It took several high-profile massacres, for instance, to prompt the 1994 federal law that banned military assault weapons."
No, it took a left-leaning Congress and a president who hated guns (hate, BTW, is a sickness....one who hates should seek medical help). And several private and public health studies showed that the '94 federal law did nothing to stem crime. Which is why it was allowed to sunset, as the original Congress had intended. It the Congress in 1994 had intended for it to be permanent, it would have passed such a bill. But it didn't. Or didn't have the guts to, just like Mayor Nutter doesn't have the guts to get into the neighborhoods where there are problem and do what he doesn't want to do.
Whew . . . get it?
Stepping down off the soapbox now.
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