[neverdem]

BANG!

[BallyBill]

In PA, politicians have to know how close you are to Philly or Pittsburgh before you decide where you stand on Gun Control for that particular speech.

[Domandred]

Obama voted in favor of legislation prohibiting the use of federal money to confiscate weapons during a disaster. Clinton voted against it.

Wow. On both counts.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

A 2002 Quinnipiac University poll found that 42 percent of Pennsylvania households have guns, including 54 percent of union households

As resident of the commonwealth of Pa, I'm shocked that gun ownership is this low. My ancedotal evidence indicates that gun ownership is a lot higher per household here than 42%. The NRA regularly holds their annual convention here for a reason. They are due to hold it in Pittsburgh again in 2011.

Philadelphia has experienced an epidemic of gun killings: 331 people were shot to death last year, 321 with handguns.

As Archie Bunker somewhat famously said to Gloria, "Would it make you feel better little girl if they jumped out of buildings?"

[Harvey105]

“In New Hampshire last November, Obama told a gathering of rural voters that his wife worries about urban handgun violence but realized while driving in Iowa that she might want a gun for protection if she lived in a rural area.”

Hmmm. I’d say that the risk of getting shot was greater in any big inner city governed by Democrats than it is in rural Iowa but that just might be because in rural Iowa they respect the right to keep and bear arms and practice it and everyone knows it.

[Travis McGee]

Philadelphia has experienced an epidemic of gun killings

Damn those sneaky, evil guns, jumping up and shooting people with no warning!

[bill1952]

He argued that their support for tougher gun regulation may not affect them in the Pennsylvania primary, but it could push the Keystone State into the Republican column in the general election.

LOL! Yeah right.

That really stopped them from voting for Clinton twice, Al Gore once, and John F ing Kerry in the general elections.

Pennsylvania has not voted for a Republican since 1988. - That is 20 years my Freeper friends, and to me, that means take her out of swing state status and break out the cobalt blue crayons to color it blue.

[Emperor Palpatine]

So typical of the People’s Republic of Follydelphia.

They should move Independence Hall from that cesspool of freedom-hating socialism.

[Joe Brower]

[Dr. Scarpetta]

BTTT

[B4Ranch]

>Philadelphia has experienced an epidemic of gun killings: 331 people were shot to death last year, 321 with handguns.<

Thank God they don’t know how effective rifles and shatguns are!

[dirtboy]

Peter Hamm, communications director for the Brady Campaign, noted approvingly that Clinton and Obama both have long records supporting tighter regulations on guns. "We would be happy with either of them," he said.

For those who say McCain isn't all that different from the Dem candidates...

[Blood of Tyrants]

331 people were shot to death last year, 321 with handguns.

So the "huge" increase of murders with "assault weapons" the gun grabbers have been isn't really an increase at all. Barely 3% of murders using guns involved long arms. I'll bet that of those 10 maybe 1 was with an "assault weapon".

[phrogphlyer]

The best quote is near the end of the article:

"We essentially have two realities when it comes to guns in this country," [Obama] said during the debate. "You've got the tradition of lawful gun ownership... and then you've got the reality of 34 Chicago public school students who get shot down on the streets of Chicago."

The jackass doesn't realize that maybe if they did actually have "the tradition of lawful gun ownership" in Chicago, they wouldn't have so many of their students getting "shot down on the streets."

[ExSoldier]

After the shootings at Virginia Tech, he expressed deep sympathy for the victims, but, according to published reports, said he believes in "no gun control."

You know, I was very impressed by that move. The gunsmoke had barely cleared from the campus before McCain had issued a statement giving unwavering support to the 2nd Amendment. That took guts because he could have looked at the entire issue and scored political points all the way around with a less definitive statement.