Philly’s gun grabbing mayor
The Mayor of Philadelphia seems to think strict gun control laws are a good thing. Constitution be damned, the Founders be damned, statistics be damned and citizens who want to exercise their most basic human right, that of self-defense be damned! Big surprise The Mayor’s name is Nutter, as in gun-grabbing nutter.
Mayor Nutter likened himself and City Council members yesterday to the band of rebels who formed this country as he signed five new gun-control laws that defy the state legislature and legal precedent.
“Almost 232 years ago, a group of concerned Americans took matters in their own hands and did what they needed to do by declaring that the time had come for a change,” Nutter said as he signed the bills in front of a table of confiscated weapons outside the police evidence room in City Hall.
Obviously this fool has never actually read about the founding of America, or the Founders views on guns.
The five laws - called everything from unconstitutional to criminal by critics - do the following:
Limit handgun purchases to one a month.
Require lost or stolen firearms to be reported to police within 24 hours.
Prohibit individuals under protection-from-abuse orders from possessing guns if ordered by the court.
Allow removal of firearms from “persons posing a risk of imminent personal injury” to themselves or others.
Outlaw the possession and sale of certain assault weapons.
Nutter said he would begin to enforce the laws immediately, with the exception of the one-gun-a-month requirement, which takes effect in six months.
The same old tired, failed gun control measures that have never done a damn thing to lessen crimes.