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Can you provide some more information about Diamond/Cleansweep damaging the Second Amendment interests, please.

I’ve been trying to find something concrete but all I could uncover is from http://youngphillypolitics.com/black_caucus_protests_lack_action_guns

two years ago where Diamond made a few entries that, while critical of the NRA, were unabashedly pro-2nd Amendment.

Ex:

Funny thing, that.
Submitted by RussDiamond on Fri, 12/07/2007 - 2:09am.
Stopping people from killing each other: Good.

Limiting how many guns a law-abiding citizen can buy: Bad, unconstitutional, and not related to the above whatsoever.

Why on earth would it work in PA when it doesn’t work anywhere else? That’s the tough truth, Ben. It’s not a gun problem, it’s a people problem.

PS: Once we open up government, perhaps we’ll discover exactly why the laws already in place haven’t worked and/or aren’t enforced, why judges let violent thugs off easy, and exactly how loudly these people we put in positions of trust have fiddled while Pennsylvania burns...

Thanks.

As far as I could tell, Diamond's agenda was cleaning out dirty money-grubbers regardless if they were otherwise faithful to conservative causes -- and he did.

The Pa. Senate is much more fiscally conservative after Cleansweep than it was before just look at how they made Rendell jump through hoops regarding the budget.

And I can't see how they are less pro-life or pro 2A.

There was at least one conservative, albeit pay-raise supporting, rep that I liked that got swept out but if you can't do the time (or maybe want the time in this case) don't do the crime.