Under the gun

[larrymeyer]

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/po..._the_city.html

Under the gun

U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, whose Bucks County district includes a sliver of Northeast Philadelphia, is taking flak from gun-control groups for his support of a bill loosening gun regulations in the District of Columbia.

Murphy's staff portrays the congressman's support as a middle-of-the-road effort to balance the rights of gun owners and D.C.'s attempts to keep guns off its streets. But gun-control advocates say that the pending bill goes much further than required to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June, voiding D.C.'s 32-year-old ban on handgun possession: The bill would eliminate a local gun-registration requirement and repeal a local ban on semiautomatics.

Bryan Miller, executive director of Ceasefire NJ, expresses outrage. "As I understand it, Murphy is joined at the hip to [U.S. Rep.] John Murtha, and Murtha is a tied-at-the-hip NRA [National Rifle Association] guy," Miller said. "I don't see any other reason why a suburban Philadelphia Democrat, with Philadelphia going through the horrible throes of gun violence, would sign onto a bill making the availability of guns so much greater in D.C. I think, frankly, [Murphy] should be ashamed of himself."

[Yellowfin]

I'm even more shocked that someone like the Ceasefire person is allowed to drive, have a bank account, or anything else that requires mental competence.

[ThoughtCriminal]

Murphy isn't all bad. I even considered voting for him until he did an about-face on immunity for the telecoms.