[GunLawyer001]

The DA is correct about the new laws (anyone with an IQ over 85 would see that), but as an elected official she's unable to address the true cause of Philadelphia crime.

I was at a seminar where she stated that she was unable to comprehend why Philadelphia has high crime, while nearby Bucks and Montgomery counties do not. She said, as best I remember, "it's not something in the water, and it isn't the people, so...."

She can't publicly acknowledge that Philadelphia crime is caused by Philadelphia residents. If she blames the voters, she won't be reelected.

The reality is that if you magically vaporised every Philadelphia resident (after giving warning to the dozen or so good people like Dan P), then brought in a million random folks from Iowa and Kentucky and Arizona, the crime rate would not mysteriously match the pre-vaporisation rate.

Philadelphia crime is caused by Philadelphia residents, primarily those residents who are unsupervised, fatherless, from families without earned income, from a subculture that respects rap singers and prison inmates while promoting non-snitching. They are either criminals or enablers for criminals. The culture finds nothing wrong with lying to the government so that Welfare or WIC or disability benefits can be received. I've worked with some of these people, and even the working folk casually discuss lying about income to get benefits, lying about the identity of their baby's daddies to get assistance.

Philadelphia's criminal culture is too corrupt and too prevalent for the city to be salvaged, absent a disaster. They blame guns, they blame Harrisburg, they blame white folks in the suburbs for ignoring the city. They blame everyone except the people who commit the crimes, the men and women who carelessly spawned them, the single moms who hang out at bars instead of supervising their bastard offspring.