White Lightning Axiom: Redux

Let me preface this by telling you that I have never owned a gun. Never. I had a pistol license once when I was living in NJ. Just outside of Camden. I taught kids to shoot a 22 and a 20 gauge at a scout camp for a few summers. Knowing this, only responsible people get a firearm license and store them correctly. Now, of the 20 odd homicides that happened in last weekend in Philly, how many do you think were committed with registered firearms? Mr. Tom Ferrick Jr did not see fit to include this little factoid because a) he did not think to get the data, b) it would blow a hole in his position that "antigun" legislation is good. His article is so egregiously biased and ... deceitful it is barely worth the time to read it.

The results are predictable: about 350 homicides a year in the city, 80 percent of them gun deaths, and roughly 1,600 people a year injured by guns. That's a lot of blood.

No kidding. And do you think that registered gun owners are running about the street popping off shots? No. These 'crime weapons' are coming from outside the city and are being used by criminals who have no intention of registering their weapons.

The "antigun" legislation relating to Philadelphia is mostly ex post facto - after the fact.

Our efforts are aimed at punishing a perp who commits a crime with a gun. We don't do much to keep guns out of their hands in the first place.

It's like an auto-safety program that harshly punishes people whose driving causes an accident but refuses to consider requiring the use of seat belts in cars.

To take his analogy 1 step further, he wants to ban cars since some people steal them and then run stop lights. What a load of flop.