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Posted on 05/28/2008 5:40:41 PM PDT by neverdem
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Mayor Nutter this morning said the National Rifle Association owed an apology to the family of slain police officer Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski.
Nutter recently signed five local gun bills into law, including one that would outlaw the possession and sale of certain assault weapons. The NRA immediately sued the city on the grounds that the city does not have the authority to enact local gun control. They obtained a temporary restraining order to keep the city from enforcing the new laws.
Liczbinski was killed with a Chinese-made assault weapon.
"I think it's insane," Nutter said. "The fact that we put forward a piece of legislation to prevent the sale and use and transfer of assault weapons and have a Philadelphia police officer assaulted on the streets with one, I think makes it pretty clear to anyone who is confused about this issue that there's no reason for any citizen, any person other than in law enforcement or in the military to have such a weapon."
He added: "There's no legitimate argument by the NRA, they need to get in the real world where the rest of us live and come to grips with these kinds of issues. They owe an apology to the family for their staunch opposition over many, many years blocking legislative support for these kinds of matters."
We called the NRA for response and will update when we hear back.
Nutter also said that Eric Floyd -- one of three suspects in the case who remained at large last night -- should turn himself in.
"He needs to turn himself in as quickly as he can. He knows that we're looking for him.He knows that we know who he is, what he looks like," Nutter said.
LMAO !!
Perfect !
Another fourth generation, gun controlled, high tax, great society, gun controlled marxist utopia...
Yep and Socialist Rats want change !
The kind of change the world saw when Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin, Chavez and Castro, just too name a few, brought change too their own countries !
Wait for it , shoot low sheriff their ridin shetlands.....:o)
ping
John Lott wrote a piece recently on the situation in Philly. What he uncovered was that the killers were all prior arrestees with long criminal records. Philadelphia apparently lets its criminals loose way earlier than their sentences, and they go out and kill people. The court system in PA is broken. That is why people are getting murdered. Fix that first. No early release and three strikes and you are out. That will change the situation. It will also fill the prisons. Philly breeds too many and they need to be taken out of circulation. Want to stop making too many criminals? Get rid of welfare - aka subsidizing women from breeding children outside of marriage. Its simple, not politically correct and what is needed to fix the cause of the problem, not the symptoms.
It ain't funny....
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> Liczbinski was killed with a Chinese-made assault weapon.
Then sue the Chi-Coms.
Nutter should apologize to the officer’s family for not being able to keep criminals behind bars. What the courts do with these fanatics is...criminal.
Nutter takes his gun-control campaign to Harrisburg (Wants to renew the federal assault weapon ban)
Tom Eblen: NRA's slippery slope full of holes
California Assembly to Vote on Anti-Gun Bills Any Day!
Governor vetoes bill on lifelong weapons permits Arizona
Gun control backers not bold on 2009 (As if they would be bold at this time?) [in Congress that is]
The GOP needs to translate all this local Second Amendment hostility into results in November.
This guy’s nuts
According to the Phila Inquirer, there were 392 homicides in Phila in 2007. The city is full of criminals who are on the loose...
http://inquirer.philly.com/graphics/homicide_map_2007/
Why? Did the NRA murder Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski?
on the grounds that the city does not have the authority to enact local gun control
This is the issue? Has the issue been resolved? Does the city have the authority?
Thanks for the ping!
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