[Terpfen]

This explains Eagles fans.

[SkyPilot]

And please don’t mention crime statistics per race here either - nobody wants to know.

[stayathomemom]

My daughter just moved to Philadelphia for grad school at UPenn. Her second week there she and some other people she was with witnessed a van with about 5 guys in it repeatedly try to run someone over. I guess they will have to get rid of vehicles too. She is relieved by the fact that there hasn't been a murder on her block in two years.

[BallyBill]

It seemed for a few weeks the city tried to blame the problem on us folks that live outside the city and our guns. That they couldn't control the problem because of all the guns in the suburbs being stolen and sold in the city for drugs.

I guess they realized that if there was guns and drugs outside the city too, why weren't we shooting the towns up like the Wild West?

This article puts the blame where it belongs and that is too uncomfortable for them to admit. Better to find an outside scapegoat.

[driftless2]

Liberals believe in the "evil gun" theory whereby the mere presence of firearms turns normally pacifistic Gandhis into raging, murderous psychopaths. There was even a movie (Lady Blue?) made with those ideas in mind. Ron Silver, playing an average citizen, discovered a handgun in the aftermath of a failed robbery and suddenly he just couldn't help himself. He had to go around shooting people BECAUSE THE EVIL GUN MADE HIM DO IT!!! Libs actually believe those things.

If guns made people murderous pyschopaths, then my area of Wisconsin would be leading the nation in murders. There's tons of guns in Wisconsin. Not including Milwaukee or Madison. The crime rate here is as low as you'll find in many countries where guns are strictly controlled. It's the person that does the crime, not the gun.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Just an excuse to grab guns from the law-abiding citizens and deliberately leave them in the hands of the criminals.

[new cruelty]

Excellent article. Thank you for sharing it.

However, it is more convenient for liberal politicians, jurists, lawyers, journalists and academicians to blame guns for the mayhem in Philadelphia than the lack of punishment, the lack of incarceration, or the inefficacy of probation and parole. If they did, they would discredit themselves and their failed liberal social policies.

I would add to that a lack of parenting.

[Clemenza]

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