Harrisburg knee jerk reaction

[robertlowery1970]

If it not bad enough that the mayor of Harrisburg is bankrupting the city, and she has no idea what she is talking about when it comes to guns but she is now spreading Bloombergs law to the city...


City Mayor Linda D. Thompson again called for a ban on the sale of military-type weapons during a town hall discussion about gun violence sponsored by Harrisburg Hope and the Midtown Scholar Bookstore last night. The mayor also said a legal review is underway in the City Law Bureau to clarify the executive powers the mayor’s office has to address automatic weapons control in the city.

The panel discussion, which included Sen. Daylin Leach, Rep. Patty Kim, Superintendent Sybil Knight-Burney, and First Assistant District Attorney Fran Chardo, was in support of improved gun control in response to the 20 innocent children and six adults murdered with automatic assault weapons in Newtown, CT last month.

Thompson is an active member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a coalition of 800 U.S. mayors and more than 900,000 grass roots supporters who are demanding action in the face of the NRA corporate gun lobby in both Washington, D.C. and in the PA House and Senate.

“The time has come for all of us, including legal gun owners, to get engaged with this issue and support common sense legislative measures like those proposed by Senator Leach in the PA Senate and Vice President Joe Biden’s efforts to rein in the influence of the NRA on this issue in Washington.” Mayor Thompson said today.

“Our agenda in Harrisburg and Washington is a common sense three-step solution to the problem,” the Mayor added.

“We have to require a criminal background check for every gun sold in America; we have to ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines for civilian use immediately; and we have to make gun trafficking a federal crime, with real penalties for “straw purchasers” who re-sell legally purchased guns to people who cannot legally purchase those guns.” She said.

“The time to act is now,” Thompson noted, “there is a genuine outpouring of voices, including legal gun owners, demanding real change to make our communities safer. We care about Second Amendment rights but we need reasonable gun restrictions to eliminate horrible mass killings across the nation.”

Mayor Thompson pointed to statistics last night which show that many policies to restrict gun ownership are popular across the nation. “A recent CNN/ORC poll found for example that about 57% of those asked favor a ban on automatic weapons; 60% favor a ban on high-capacity gun magazines; and more than 95% favor stronger background checks.” She told the 200 attendees.

Of the 142 weapons used by the killers in 62 mass shootings across the U.S. since 1982, three quarters of them were obtained legally and the deadly arsenal included dozens of assault weapons and semiautomatic handguns.

The mayor reported 12 murders in the City of Harrisburg last year, down from a high of 16 in prior years, but gun related crime “remains a problem we all have to address,” she said.

Mayor Thompson will lobby Capitol Hill in Washington next week as part of the U.S. Conference of Mayors advocacy for common sense gun laws which require Congressional action.

The article above provided by the Office of the Mayor of Harrisburg.


Read more at http://fox43.com/2013/01/10/mayor-th...flbjpRUJ5oP.99

[dkf]

So when does the term of this dumb biotch end?

Does she have any legal leg to stand on?

[Ewussor]

Dear Ms. Thompson,

What part of "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" and "SHALL NOT BE QUESTIONED" do you not understand?

Have nice day!

[schr8er2000]

and what about her taking the oath "to support the Constitutions of the United States of America and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" ????......

[nater99]

This is a desperate attempt to get back in the good graces of the voters in Harrisburg.

[wallyone]

12 murders last year, down from 16 prior years.
Does not sound like Hbg. has that big a problem for a city. Out of these numbers how many were comitted with an "assault weapon"?
Yes a mayor should be working on crime in there city, but not by making lame town hall meetings just for photo op.
This kind of show just makes them all look stupid!!

[LBaker]

The big names at that event have zero credibility. She is just a whack job and Leach is, well he is named appropriately. From what I saw on the news, there we not many people there.

[PowerPM]

The mayor reported 12 murders in the City of Harrisburg last year, down from a high of 16 in prior years, but gun related crime “remains a problem we all have to address,” she said

This sounds extraordinarily low but I haven't done the research.... Sound like she don't have much of a "automatic weopons" issue....

[gator39]

typical douche bag liberal democrap

[truecrimson]

MasterBlaster, listen to the law

http://reference.pafoa.org/statutes/...nd-ammunition/

18 Pa.C.S. § 6120: Limitation on the regulation of firearms and ammunition
(a) General rule.--No county, municipality or township may in any manner regulate the lawful ownership, possession, transfer or transportation of firearms, ammunition or ammunition components when carried or transported for purposes not prohibited by the laws of this Commonwealth.
(a.1) No right of action.--
(1) No political subdivision may bring or maintain an action at law or in equity against any firearms or ammunition manufacturer, trade association or dealer for damages, abatement, injunctive relief or any other relief or remedy resulting from or relating to either the lawful design or manufacture of firearms or ammunition or the lawful marketing or sale of firearms or ammunition to the public.
(2) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit a political subdivision from bringing or maintaining an action against a firearms or ammunition manufacturer or dealer for breach of contract or warranty as to firearms or ammunition purchased by the political subdivision.
(b) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this subsection:
"Dealer." The term shall include any person engaged in the business of selling at wholesale or retail a firearm or ammunition.
"Firearms." This term shall have the meaning given to it in section 5515 (relating to prohibiting of paramilitary training) but shall not include air rifles as that term is defined in section 6304 ( relating to sale and use of air rifles).
"Political subdivision." The term shall include any home rule charter municipality, county, city, borough, incorporated town, township or school district.