PA Bill Number: HB335
Title: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons.
Description: In inchoate crimes, further providing for prohibited offensive weapons. ...
Last Action: Removed from table
Last Action Date: May 1, 2024
Gun prohibitionists can't have it both ways! :: 08/03/2014
A column posted today on Town Hall and a story reported late last night by the Los Angeles Times add new perspectives to an old dilemma for gun prohibitionists who adhere to the "only cops should have guns" mantra, but are then corner-boxed by their own rhetoric when a policeman shoots the wrong person.
The Town Hall piece, by veteran Chicago Tribune columnist and editorial writer Steve Chapman, notes that "gun control advocates are learning the downside of getting their way." Supporting extreme measures, that have included gun bans, are failing because the courts are ruling against them on constitutional grounds.
Chapman speaks from experience. His city has been "ground zero" for some ground-breaking legal activity on gun rights, much of it involving the Bellevue-based Second Amendment Foundation. SAF's 2010 Supreme Court victory in McDonald v. City of Chicago was the first in a string of defeats for the city's extremist anti-gun policies that also included Ezell v. City of Chicago and, in a large sense, Moore v. Madigan and the National Rifle Association's similar Shepard v. Madigan that forced Illinois to adopt a concealed carry law.
Chapman might have included an observation that it has been the invariable result of gun control efforts, from the White House on down, that gun sales — and in more recent times, carry permit applications — have gone up. For example, last month at this time, Examiner noted that in Washington state, more than 461,000 active concealed pistol licenses were reported by the state Department of Licensing. This column will get new data tomorrow, so watch this space.
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http://www.examiner.com/article/gun-prohibitionists-can-t-have-it-both-ways
