Friday - April 11, 2008

America’s Most Appropriately Named Mayor

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.

“We are going to make ourselves independent of the violence that’s been taking place in this city for far too long,” he said.

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.

Nutter embraced the idea of taking “direct action” to challenge a legal status quo to protect city residents.

“If we all sat around bemoaning what the law was on a regular basis,” Nutter said. “I’d probably still be picking cotton somewhere as opposed to being mayor of the city of Philadelphia.”

The city has tried and failed for three decades to buck the 1974 state law that reserves gun regulation to the state legislature. The state’s preeminence appeared to be cemented in a 1996 Supreme Court ruling that allowed the legislature to prevent Philadelphia and Pittsburgh from enacting local gun laws.

Words just fail me here.

Ok, first up ... the “pickin cotton” BS?  X’Scooose me, but that ought to get you a smack upside yo nappy haid. Are you implying that you personally had to break laws to become the mayor, or are you implying that you used to do slave labor before entering politics, or what? We don’t cotton to that cotton pickin line about cotton pickin round here, so just what is up with that?

And yes, Philly is a hole. A dirty, grungy, crime and violence infested hole. So is Camden, right across the bridge in NJ. Two of the worst cities on the east coast. Wall to wall ghetto, with gangs everywhere. So crime control, gang control, drug control, and effective youth programs might be what’s needed. What isn’t needed is yet another expensive, empty gesture that you know damn well isn’t going to survive a cotton pickin minute in court. Because you don’t have the right to make such laws, and have been told so by the state and by the US Supreme Court for over 30 years. And if it isn’t a crime of some kind to sign a law that you know full well you have no business signing, then it ought to be. But even if it weren’t, what Nutter has done here is so deliberately stupid he ought to be fired. What a friggin idiot.

Even if Da Mayah had the power to make special gun laws for his shitty little city ...

The first law is restraint of legal trade

The second law makes criminals out of law abiding citizens who don’t count their guns every single day

The third law is just inane; it makes no sense - either it keeps people who are being threatened from getting a gun, or it duplicates the “Lautenberg Amendment” on restraining orders, which already
takes away the 2nd Amendment rights of the people who have been served with a restraining order. One way is stupid, the other way is already in place. What a waste of ink.

The fourth law ... just what the hell is that supposed to mean? “Look out Jim - that guy is frowning. I think he’s ready to injure someone. Get his guns quick!”

The fifth - “certain assault weapons”?? WTF? Which ones, and why them? Naturally I don’t expect these to be REAL assault weapons, since those are already covered by laws dating back to ... arrggh, I think I’ve blown a blood vessel. The level of willful stupidity here is just too much to bear.

Liberals. Are they the ones buying those “NO means YES” T-shirts at Cafe Press and thinking it’s a slogan about legal precedents? What a utter bonehead this guy is. What a NUTTER.

Posted by Drew458     on 04/11/2008 at 09:53 PM   
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