Article from Town Hall by Matt Vespa.
Well, this was expected. After the horrible shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh last October, the city is now moving to ban assault-style rifles, ban certain types of ammunition, and allow courts to ban gun ownership for people who are deemed dangerous. The city has suffered a terrible tragedy when vicious anti-Semite Robert Gregory Bowers shot and killed 11 people. He wounded six others, including four police officers. Police shot bowers after a gunfight. He eventually surrendered to police. Bowers deserves everything he gets in the court of law.
Yet, as with most reactions to these tragedies by liberal America, it’s knee-jerk. All three proposals represent a dangerous encroachment on constitutional rights. The Steel City is following Boulder, Colorado, which also banned so-called assault weapons (i.e. AR-15s) within the city limits. There is a grandfather clause, however, permitting current owners who had already owned these rifles to keep them as long as they receive a certificate by the local sheriff’s office. It’s not a registry, but it sure sounds like a rest run for one.
The only provision that could prevent future tragedies is the law that would permit authorities to ban gun ownership to individual deemed dangerous, but what are the criteria? This law, along with the many being proposed, is something that both sides could come together on to debate, especially if the language and protocols were thoroughly hashed to prevent abuse. On paper, it’s common sense—and it could serve the public interest, but loose phrasing is highly subjective. Laws like these should be a long, tedious, and hyper-analytical process to avid government denying Americans’ constitutional rights to gun ownership, which you know happens in these deep-blue corners of America.
The Pittsburgh proposals are arguably unconstitutional and local gun rights groups have also noted Pennsylvania state law barring localities from enacting stricter gun control laws than those already on the statewide books, according to Reuters:
Read the entire article at Town Hall.
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Such fools! if guns are banned only terrorists, gangs and other criminals will have guns.
Another city that doesn’t want tourism money ………Avoid Pittsburgh !
Just like the lefties. Punish the guys who didn’t do it.
No guns….no freedom
know guns … Know freedom.
AMAZING how stupid people can become when threatened a little bit. Gun prohibitions do not inhibit criminals, they only give criminals a freer hand in committing crime, as they can be fairly sure that no law-abiding citizens will be armed in opposition to them. Police only show up in time to clean up the mess.
These people want stop from trying to take every thing from us until they can own us. We must not give in to these that are destroying our country.
Gun free zone means welcome criminals we’re at you mercy.
I left a lengthy comment but they won’t publish it because it tells the truth about gun control. Conservative comments are blocked.