Brady Campaign endorsed ‘gun criminal’ legislator

Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 18 November, 2010 | David Codrea

[marktwain]

“Drug offenses, gun charges, theft and drunken driving turned up in the backgrounds of some state lawmakers when the entire Pennsylvania General Assembly was checked against public records, news accounts and other sources,” Mark Scolforo of the Associated Press reports.

One in particular stands out:

The most extensive arrest record the AP search turned up belonged to Rep. John Myers, D-Philadelphia. His only conviction was a February 1987 guilty plea to having an unlicensed .38-caliber handgun, with an obliterated serial number, concealed in his vehicle, according to court records. He was sentenced to 15 months' probation.

Myers also was charged in Philadelphia with assault with intent to kill in 1972, and marijuana possession in 1980, but both cases were dismissed. He was accused of shooting at someone in Philadelphia in 1981, but was acquitted.

That’s an exceptionally bad record for a “lawmaker.” In this case, it’s also exceptionally hypocritical.

Why?

Per a Nov. 2007 NRA-ILA alert:

House Bill 22, "one-gun-a-month" legislation, sponsored by State Representative John Myers (D-Philadelphia), will prohibit law-abiding citizens from purchasing more than one handgun at a time, and impose a 30-day waiting period between single handgun purchases.

So the convicted “gun criminal” who possessed his gun illegally wants to throw impediments in the way of legal gun purchasers, people who jump through all the hoops to obey the law?

[marktwain]

The law is always supposed to apply to "other people".

[Erik Latranyi]

Philadelphia is a liberal stronghold, hence, corrupt as Detroit or Chicago.

[muir_redwoods]

The opponents we face are simply not good people. They lack honesty and integrity. That’s, in part, why they are so comfortable taking other people’s money and calling themselves generous.