Public Forum on 'Crime' With Tom McMahon

**doug** · January 27th, 2007, 02:34 AM

Mayor Tom McMahon of Reading is planning to meet with Paul Helmke, the president of a national gun-ban group (the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence), as well as law enforcement officials and local residents, under the guise of addressing the issue of crime. The meeting will be held Tuesday, February 6, at 6:00 p.m., in the Schmidt Training & Technology Center at Reading Area Community College. Mayor McMahon is a member of the anti-gun group led by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Please remember to attend this meeting and make your voice heard! If you are unable to attend, please call (610) 655-6234 and let Mayor McMahon know that New York-style gun control does not fit in Reading, Pennsylvania.

**LorDiego01** · January 27th, 2007, 05:40 PM

Thanks for posting this.

**Stryker_11a** · January 28th, 2007, 08:37 AM

I will try to make it but I may be out of town on business. If I cannot make it will definately call the mayor.

**TrybalRage** · February 6th, 2007, 01:03 PM

So it's tonight - anyone going? I plan to try and make it.

**billamj** · February 6th, 2007, 01:26 PM

I'd like to go, but there is no way that I can make it from my office to Reading in time. If anyone does go please make sure to keep us in the loop about anything of any type of importance that happens. I realize that McMahon and importance may seem somewhat incongruous but...

**nvrquit** · February 7th, 2007, 12:51 AM

By mid-afternoon today, I realized I wouldn't be able to make the proposed meeting. I called and was answered by a machine(and no directory options). I left a short message indicating my position and indicated that call-back would be desirable.

If anyone on this forum attended the meeting, please let us know what transpired.

**theshadow** · February 7th, 2007, 02:34 PM

You know, I was thinking about this, and really wish I could have made it over to support my brothers and sisters in arms. This really got to me. One of the greatest Heros in American history, boys grew up on his ledgend was from this area, orriginally, Daniel Boone, must REALY be proud of his boyhood home. If some one in Reading would be so kind to pass this along, I'd be greatful.

**TrybalRage** · February 7th, 2007, 07:51 PM

Someone posted up in the 'news' section that it was pretty much a gun-bashing session with no questions asked.

Makes me feel less bad about missing it.

The mayor will be getting a nice letter from me regarding the whole affair, however.