Posted on 12/23/2004 8:47:41 AM PST by P8riot
A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed in an apparent random shooting yesterday in Southwest Philadelphia, and an 18-year-old was shot and critically wounded last night in the Oxford Circle section as the violence against young people in the city continued......
Police Comissioner Sylvester Johnson went to visit Tyrique's family and then spoke to a reporter about the need for new gun legislation and for the people of the community to get involved.
"Law enforcement will never change it," he said. "We need the community to step forward" to give "information to solve the crimes."
He urged anyone who saw the shootings to notify police.
Johnson said the state's gun laws are inadequate and that he hoped Harrisburg would pass legislation banning the sale of all guns.
"Law enforcement will never change it," he said. "We need the community to step forward" to give "information to solve the crimes."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
sure he does. It's liberty, philadelphia style. when everything is outlawed, only outlaws will do anything.
archetypal civil servant "tail" wagging the dog alert.
Why not just ban crime, then everyone could have a gun? Wow! What a new idea! Ought to work.
Liberals created the social chaos afflicting so many of today's urban neighborhoods in a drastically failed attempt to eradicate them. There are far many more such neighborhoods today than in 1960. Yet they continue to offer more liberal solutions, in attempt to resolve the very problems they created. They are NEVER going to get it.
He may wear a uniform, but he's no cop.
Absolutely. And so many of the good but poor people who live there, will be totally defenseless.
I think Pennsylvania has "shall issue" concealed carry laws, don't they? Looks more to me like this politician has failed to enforce the law concerning "felon in possession" offenses. And, as others have said, this guy's not a cop - he's a politician like all police chiefs and commissioners. Street cops I've talked to in my city like having legally armed citizens out there.
Watch it Commissioner. You are treading on constitution right of all good Americans. Better do some research before you have a situation where you have armed criminals. Believe me, criminals knowing you have weakened the right of law abiding people to protect themselves, crime will go up and criminals may target you as well as us. Forgotten is that the police are an extension of all citizens and no more rights should be extended to law enforcement than the public.
Yeah, the cops would much rather just have to use the chalk to draw the outline of the bad guy's dead body on the ground and I really don't blame them. The basic rule is that the best way to survive a gunfight is to avoid a gunfight. More armed citizens - on the street and in the home - cuts way down on the bad guys who are willing to risk it.
ALL guns? Does that mean he, his coworkers and his hack bosses can't buy they either?
NO?!
Well, isn't that special.
Problem is, the Bush administration talks a good game of Second Amendment rights, then runs away from actually enforcing them.
These kinds of bans are political ploys. If the ban isn't passed civil servants can say "we tried to address the problem, but the ban failed to pass." If the ban passes they can demand even more stringent schemes when the ban fails to deliver as promised. Bottom line: this is just another municipal employee trying to conceal his ignorance and failures by passing the buck.
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