Dems Still Scream Gun Control After Philly, Still Ignoring How It Failed

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Posted August 16, 2019 7:30 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

The shooting in Philadelphia earlier this week shook the nation, particularly because it came so closely on the wake of three mass shootings. We later learned that this was a different animal entirely.

In Philly, a man who is probably best described as a career criminal decided to take a shot at law enforcement officers as they were serving a warrant. This wasn’t an active shooter trying to kill as many innocents as possible. This was a desperate criminal who thought he’d rather die in a shootout with cops than return to prison (and then changed his mind).

Yet that’s not enough to stop some officials from calling for more gun control.

One day after a gunman shot six Philadelphia police officers in an incident that brought unwanted international attention to Philadelphia, lawmakers, most of them Democrats, and members of the law enforcement community gathered inside a packed room inside City Hall to urge elected officials to pass stronger gun control legislation.

“I don’t now what has to happen next? There was a time when this was seen as a problem in the inner cities,” state Sen. Shariff Street said. “But we are 20 years beyond Columbine now and look at …Read the Rest

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