oystermick
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More nonsense frrom the dark side:
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/Mayor_Nutter_has_strong_words_for_NRA.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/Mayor_Nutter_has_strong_words_for_NRA.html
Good Luck Nutter. You can not use reason when you try to reason with those inbred NRA morons. What he should do is arrange for a bus to go to the cow pastures of Central PA and pick up all those NRA nuts and bring them to Philly. Let them try to survive one night on the streets here and see if they still want to block the assault weapon ban.
Posted by s1360m
Those guns nuts would be peeing their pants in North Philly. They only know how to shoot something that is defenseless.
Posted by Sick_of_the_PC_Crowd
Love or hate the NRA there still is that little ol' state constitution to deal with. Nutter needs to be focusing more on preventing innocent people from being slain in the middle of the afternoon on SEPTA platforms, ridding the streets of trash both paper and human and not trying for the cheap sound byte of the day over another dead PPD officer. Please don't tell me you think if this "ban" went into effect that it would have prevented this tragedy. The problem with gun 'control' laws is that criminals have no regard for them - you can make all the laws you want, but its not going to make these scumbags think twice before taking a legal or illegal gun and firing at another one of our brave men and women of the PPD. These people were robbing a bank - they obviously have no regard for laws or society - I hope the other 2 involved fry - unfortunatly only 1 of these scumbags actually paid a just price for their cowardice.
Posted by JD77
Keep blaming the gun. It's never the person who pulled the trigger. Was it a legally owned gun? I'm thinking not. Remember, When you outlaw guns, only outlaws WILL have them. Let's solve the crime problem. Maybe Mayor Nutter should give an apolgy for not having safe streets.
Posted by Two5tengame
the NRA is nothing but a money hungry lobby - many many former members are disenchanted with the NRA and have since left... they care about nothing but money!
Posted by kmmposts
Nutter is an idiot. The problem is not the NRA, it's Nutter. State laws do not allow cities to pass their own firearm laws (or vehicle codes or criminal procedure codes, et. al). Rather than confront the issues which underly the violence in Philly, he tries to ban guns. Nutter ignores laws that are inconvenient in order to "prove" that he's trying to do something. He implies the NRA is "obstructionist" when they try to force HIM to obey the law. He should be lobbying Harrisburg instead of pretending he can issue dictatorial decrees. We had the same problem here in San Francisco with another left-wing Democrat mayor. The failure is the city not unifying and supporting its good citizens with opportunities in jobs, education or quality of life issues. If Nutter wants to do something, he needs to address the rampant drug-gang culture, the despair of the poor and support citizens who are trying to clean up their neighborhoods. But all of that takes work. It's much easier to just ban guns and then demonize the NRA to get your sound bite on TV.
Does Nutter think Ed Rendell's parole board should apologize to the officer's family for releasing the killer from prison early? The "apology" fetish of the Democrat-Media Complex can be taken to many extremes.
PHILADELPHIA -- Police acting on a tip closed in on an abandoned Southwest Philadelphia row house late Wednesday night and captured the third suspect in the death of a police officer shot in a weekend confrontation with bank robbery suspects.
Eric Floyd, 33, and a woman identified as his girlfriend, were taken into custody in a second-floor bedroom of the dilapidated house in the Kingsessing neighborhood with boarded-up windows shortly after 11 p.m. Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said Floyd was unarmed and did not resist.
Police said Floyd made a statement and is cooperating with police.
He was arrested five days after the fatal shooting and a day before Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski's funeral. Police scoured the city and investigated more than 100 tips.
Authorities continued to hold the crime scene on the 5400 block of Windsor Avenue where Floyd and his girlfriend were captured, collecting evidence they say will help in the suspect's conviction.
Mayor Michael Nutter told a news conference early Thursday he confronted the suspect as he arrived in a van at police headquarters and voiced disappointment "as one African-American male to another."
Floyd arrived locked in the handcuffs of the slain sergeant, a 12-year veteran and married father of three who was killed with an assault weapon on Saturday, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said.
"It's a way of just paying tribute to the slain officer," Ramsey said.
Police had pursued a flood of tips for days in an intensive manhunt for the last suspect remaining at large, and Nutter said Liczbinski's wife, Michelle, was "very pleased" at news of the capture.
"We know we're a safer city because that individual, that menace to society is off the street," Nutter said.
"We cannot bring Stephen back but we can certainly bring some closure to this entire matter," he added.