Philladelphia sues state of PA over firearms pre-emption

The city of Philly wants to sue the state of PA to allow gun control the city feels is necessary. Philly has had over 200 gun murders this year and seeks legislation requiring "one gun a month" and registration plus yearly fees for firearms within the city.

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• Pennsylvania
• gun
• control
• licensing
• registration

[SuicideKing187]

If gun laws worked so good why are there so many shootings here in Chicago???...Its illegal to have a pistol here but that shit dont stop the gangs.

[ChampionofLiberty]

Oh, and this was also a really biased report. It doesn't document any cases of where pro-gun laws have lowered crime rates, just ONE situation where it (presuming they aren't fudging their facts a little), may have raised them or had a neutral effect. Take a look at Switzerland. They let their people own automatics, and almost every home has at LEAST one gun there, yet the crime rate is practically non-existant.

[parallelpinkparakeet]

Living in Philly myself, the government officials are are really paranoid about guns in general. At least once every other week around the college I went to someone was always robbed. But Philly's problems run much deeper than gun ownership. Strict gun laws won't do shit.

[braidedpink]

LOL gang members killing gang members, lets train them to be better shooters so they can be better at shooting each other rather then killing innocent people and not get in the way of people who should own guns. WAKE UP LEFTY'S FIX THE GANG PROBLEM !

[Koumrian]

I live in Oakland CA. Here it is illegal to own assault weapons, yet gangsters routinely use machine guns and assault rifles to shoot eachother and innocents in Oakland. Therefore Diane Fienstine and her anti constitutional friends have failed, yet again.

[anthonyAJR]

I don't think so..........I have to pay a fee and registration of my guns because of a bunch of animals don't know how to act.

[mechanicx1578]

@ChampionofLiberty - Look at per capital income & average household worth. Also compare education verse our own. I believe the answers will find themselves

[samten10a]

If they really want to stop all the killing down there all they need to revamp the self-defense law so you can be secure in your person, place, things not have to worry if you do any thing to protect your self, place and thing soyou don’t go to jail.

[samten10a]

Second you get the cops to stop saying “it the cops job”. Admit that they do not have the precognitive ability and don’t know when a crime is about to go down. So it will take 10 to 20 minuets to respond if called. So the citizen will have to take action to be secure in their person place and things. If the city does it will take 6 mounts to stop the violence

[dugiv]

Im the biggest proponent of gun laws you will find and i live right outside of philadelphia. I say let the local governments pass whatever laws they feel like. No reason to bring the feds or the state government to make a blanket law that restricts law abiding citizens. Phila has a major problem, will stronger gun laws in phila stop crime? No. Will they get off the states back pushing for more gun laws? Yes. let them do whatever they want.

[rllang01]

@ 2:21 Steve Capelli is 99% correct.

Philadelphia is experiencing "multicultural" genocide.

[turfguy87]

gun bans & laws NEVER NEVER NEVER affect criminals....... never. they don't follow the law or rules anyways morons. all it does is unarm regular citizens & render them very vulnerable