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December 22nd, 2017, 11:49 PM #1
PA AG Josh Shapiro's Comments in the Wake of Las Vegas
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In the wake of Las Vegas...
JOSH SHAPIRO·TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2017
I just left Philadelphia where hundreds gathered to mourn and demand action in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre and I want to share my thoughts with you.
I sincerely thank our first responders and law enforcement for the heroism and humanity they show each and every day and especially their bravery in the face of terror in Las Vegas. I see their bravery first hand each and every day and I could not be more proud as your Attorney General.
My heart breaks for the victims, their families, our country. We mourn the loss of 59 of our brothers and sisters.
We have to know that even in a time of mourning, we cant ignore the root causes of the violence that inflicts our nationwe cant be willfully blind to the plain truth.
We cant see storm after storm, flooding, fires and broken glaciers and ignore the human factors changing our climate.
Similarly, we cant witness the kind of carnage in Sandy Hook and Las Vegas and fail to act to stop the violence, appreciate the underlying factors that lead to violence and responsibly limit the weapons used to perpetrate it.
Our communal assessment must take into consideration the very real trauma that so many in our city, so many in our Commonwealth experience daily.
Too many Pennsylvanians dont have access to a quality education and economic opportunity. We need to have an honest, open discussion about mental health care. Poverty, hunger and homelessness should not define a generation of young people.
When I visited Jay Cook Elementary School in North Philly recently and talked with elementary school students about violence each raised their hand when asked if they knew someone whod been shotthats simply unacceptable.
We need common sense brought to the table of discussion. Military grade weapons have no reasonable place on our city streets.
We can no longer allow those oblivious to the truth to have the power.
We are losing too many people to senseless acts of violence and now is the time for action.
So let us not only mourn but lets also find sensible solutions.
We must collectively lend our voice and our action to find answers. Now is the time for us to stand together, to rise up, to do our part.
The greatest expression of hope is our belief that things dont have to be this way in America. This is a choice.
There are political hurdles to progress to be sure. But our greatest enemy is when good people say nothing will change.
Scripture teaches us that no one is required to complete the task but neither is anyone free to refrain from it. Each of us has a responsibility to make change and the time us now. Only then will we limit the violence and create opportunity.
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December 23rd, 2017, 12:17 AM #2
Re: PA AG Josh Shapiro's Comments in the Wake of Las Vegas
Pretty confusing. He speaks of Jay Cook elementary. I went to Jay Cooke Junior High. Looking both up, it's listed both ways....Jay Cook K-8 13th and Louden, and Jay Cooke Middle School, 13th and Louden.
As Jay Cooke Junior High in the late 1940s, it was known to have the lowest rep in the city, called "The melting pot". It has become worse. Shapiro cherry-picked the group he wanted to question and got the answers he wanted.
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December 23rd, 2017, 12:34 AM #3
Re: PA AG Josh Shapiro's Comments in the Wake of Las Vegas
It figures. Shapiro's statement is disturbing on many counts. It demonstrates that PA elected yet another dangerous ideologue to the office of AG. One would think that PA had learned its lesson with his disgraced predecessor, Kathleen G. Kane. Evidently, the lesson did not take.
In my view, the most chilling part of Shapiro's statement is the following:
We can no longer allow those oblivious to the truth to have the power.
To which I respond: History is littered with despots and tyrants who believed they alone possessed the truth.
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December 23rd, 2017, 04:43 AM #4
Re: PA AG Josh Shapiro's Comments in the Wake of Las Vegas
Josh will get caught up in #metoo soon enough. It's the elitest M.O.
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December 23rd, 2017, 04:52 AM #5
Re: PA AG Josh Shapiro's Comments in the Wake of Las Vegas
The Framers understood that tyrants will always be able to articulate reasons to suppress speech, suppress religion, disarm the rabble, jail their enemies without trials, and infringe privacy.
That's why they added the Bill of Rights to the Constitution, to make clear that no "reasonable restrictions" are allowed when it comes to fundamental liberties.
The elementary school that I attended existed under the same rights and the same access to firearms as the cess-school that he went to. There were no shootings at my school, nobody knew anyone who had been shot, or anybody who shot someone.
It's not the guns, stupid. It's the people. When you raise lawless, feral kids without fathers or lessons in economics and virtue, you get crime, and your failure to educate or raise those kids properly doesn't empower you to disarm middle-aged white guys in the rest of the state. Little monsters without guns are still monsters.
Prisons have the perfect nanny state, where nobody has access to weapons, there's surveillance 24/7, they have "zero tolerance" policies about many things, and nobody has a right to privacy that interferes with investigations. Are prisons safer than the suburbs, where anybody can buy an AR-15? Nope.Attorney Phil Kline, AKA gunlawyer001@gmail.com
Ce sac n'est pas un jouet.
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December 23rd, 2017, 10:14 AM #6Super Member
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Re: PA AG Josh Shapiro's Comments in the Wake of Las Vegas
I wasn't paying attention, did Shapiro say guns caused global warming ?
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December 23rd, 2017, 04:15 PM #7
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December 24th, 2017, 11:29 AM #8
Re: PA AG Josh Shapiro's Comments in the Wake of Las Vegas
The pattern is becoming clear. The left, which includes Shapiro and Wolf, are intentionally using and fostering violent crime as an excuse to disarm the law-abiding. Every act of violence, even those that do not involve the use of a firearm, are met with shrill cries for more "gun control". Disarming the law-abiding is essential to leftist plans for political, economic and cultural supremacy. All of the other human rights guaranteed by our Constitution then easily fall (1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, all of them). There are plenty of laws that allow the taking of firearms from criminals and keeping them out of the hands of criminals, but they are not being enforced. They will never admit it, but the left wants criminals to have firearms because criminals, antifa and Islamic terrorists are useful and essential in destabilizing society. Leftist politicians and leftist controlled law enforcement will never do more than pretend to disarm the criminal element and will provide either moral, legal or economic support for the likes of antifa and Islamic terrorists.
We just had an Islamic chain migrant commit an act of Islamic terror in Harrisburg. Yet Wolf was all in support of Obama's plan to settle Islamic migrants into PA knowing full well the mayhem that would follow. Shapiro then doubles down by being in the van of filing spurious legal challenges to President Trump's attempt to block dangerous immigration patterns. Shapiro lead that charge. He did not just go along (which would have been bad enough).
The other day, leftist California Governor and Tom Wolf soulmate, Gerry Brown, just pardoned two immigrant felons and commuted the sentence of a third who had been convicted for her part in a robbery/murder. His administration helped get a firearms charge reduced to help one of the immigrant felons to resist deportation. Is that the action of someone who really cares about "gun control"? No, it is the action of someone who wants to enable criminals and make the law-abiding more vulnerable by fastening gun control on the law-abiding.
The more destabilized society becomes, the more Government uses the destabilization they have fostered as a pretext for the assumption of expanded power to establish their own omnipotence. History is filled with examples and we are in the process of seeing another such example unfold.
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December 24th, 2017, 02:50 PM #9
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December 24th, 2017, 03:16 PM #10
Re: PA AG Josh Shapiro's Comments in the Wake of Las Vegas
The twisted freaks do that because they are godless scum
Originally Posted by Wilderness 1864
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