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In Pennsylvania, second amendment advocates have been fighting for years to reform Pennsylvania preemption law.   State law forbids local governments from passing a maze of local ordinances that infringe on the right to keep and bear arms.   All 50 states have some form of state firearm preemption; if they did not have it, residents would never know if they were breaking the law or not by being on one side of the street or another. The problem in Pennsylvania is that the Legislature did not provide any penalties for local scofflaw governments when they break the law.   This year,...

I have recently started using the term "disarmenter".   It was derived from a combination of disarm and demented. Tomkat, on freerepublic, suggested that the term disarmist was less clumsy and easier to use.   Which  do you think would be the better term? dis·arm·en·ter (ds-ärmn-tr)  alt.  dis·arm·ist     (ds-ärmst) n. 1. A political operative who works to disarm political opposition through the use of irrational and/or emotional arguments. 2. A person who believes that disarming citizens will reduce crime or unjustified violence, in spite of contrary evidence or facts. 3. A person who wishes to disarm others because they do...