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Originally Posted by GunLawyer001

Guns don't cause crime, people from Philadelphia cause crime.

The truth is that Philadelphia is home to many of my friends, some very fine people who just live in the wrong place, where their moral fiber and dedication to living within the law is incongruous and unrewarded. Do the police ever say "Oh, YOU should carry a gun because YOU'RE not a criminal", or do the cops treat every Philadelphioa resident as a crook who just hasn't been caught yet?

Philadelphia is rife with criminals, scofflaws, and corrupt government. I doubt that there's been an honest election in the city in the last century, every year some of the voting machines "accidentally" decline to register Republican votes, and absentee ballots are like a bogus vote slush fund for the Democrats in charge. I remember one year, around 1995 or so, where there was proven election fraud committed by some election official, he was removed from office and replaced by his niece.

Car insurance is high, but car insurance fraud is even higher. Philadelphia has maybe 10% of the Commonwealth's population, but half of all car thefts. Must be the fault of car dealers and "straw drivers", I guess.

Gun control is not the answer. Prisons have zero gun sales, yet your chance of being killed in prison is higher than being killed outside, because prisons have many criminals, and criminals will find ways to commit crimes.

I'm on board with massive punishment for straw purchasers where there's actual criminal intent. If I buy a rifle that I intend as a gift for a friend, there should be no crime. If I buy a pistol that I intend to resell to a friend because he's been looking for that model for years, no crime. But if I buy a gun for somebody because he can't pass PICS, then I think 20 years in jail is appropriate.

Nine straw purchase incidents in Pennsylvania is miniscule for a state of maybe 12 million people, but the anti's want to use it to justify "One Gun A Month". Maybe they should target the straw purchasers. If you catch just 1 out a 100 straw purchasers, but that one that you catch goes to jail for 20 years, you'll have a real deterrent to the next 100 who are asked to purchase for criminals.

+1. Bravo!