Restrict the flow of legal weapons, and the number of guns circulating illegally on city streets would decline. "We need to go after traffickers who have highly developed businesses... just like selling hotdogs," says Bryan Miller of Ceasefire New Jersey, which lobbies for gun safety.
For all the talk of enforcing existing gun laws, those statutes have not kept illegal guns out of the hands of criminals. So lawmakers need to enact the one-handgun-a-month proposal being championed by Rep. John Myers and Sen. LeAnna M. Washington, both Philadelphia Democrats. Limiting legal handgun purchases - not hunting rifles - to a dozen per year would preserve gun owners' rights, while seriously hampering gun traffickers.
Wait a minute--I thought Philadelphia wasn't supposed to have any more crime. I thought "enforcing existing gun laws" was the winning strategy.
Gee, maybe you can't get in bed with your enemies. Maybe compromise and appeasement don't work, and they'll always be coming back at your throat.
Note this is coming from Philadelphia, home of Independence Hall (now a UN World Heritage Site). Disarming the Constitutional militia ought to be prosecutable as an act of treason.
And note the divide-and-conquer tactic pitting hunters against handgun owners--your rifles are OK--we're just going after those other guys.
For now.
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But, but, but.... David, you don't understand. Now Mr. LaPierre has a reason to send out more pledge cards and ask for more funds to fight this outrage. Which he will stop in its tracks by surrender of another small piece of his members' rights.
That is the reason I dropped my membership. If I was so inclined, I could surrender on my own, without the incremental surrender occassioned by Mr. LaPierre, that requires ever more money to set up for the next increment of surrender that he will call a victory.
Why would I pay him to make a surrender I do not favor into a long drawn-out torture session, and pay him for it?
My Mama raised a fool, but I'm fighting it harder than that.
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