The homicide rate in Philly after this weekend is up to 156. In just 142 days, not bad! Watch out Baghdad, here comes Philly! These killings came at the same time that the Inquirer was reporting that the Upper Darby police department was selling seized weapons back to the very gun dealers who sold the guns to the criminals in the first place.
The Inquirer reports:
"These guns included illegal sawed-off shotguns and assault rifles. Just last month, special-education students found one of Upper Darby's confiscated guns as they collected litter near their school."
This was happening up until 2005, the practice has since been suspended, but what the hell? The Upper Darby police department was selling the guns to notorious Lethal Lou's Loans in Upper Darby and Mac's Gun Shop in Clifton Heights. Lou's was so out of control that even the ATF had to finally get around to shutting them down.
You know, it's not easy these days for the ATF to really do anything about ATF -- especially F -- because since W. and his NRA buddies got into office they've pretty much legislated the agency into oblivion. [W. took the ATF to the vet and now it doesn't want to play with the other puppies anymore.] I love it when any effort is made to control guns, the NRA's answer is always that we simply need to enforce the current laws on the books; the very laws they've worked so hard to water down to the point of irrelevance.
Some day sanity will prevail -- or we'll all be dead -- and people will look back on our time and just shake their heads. Who in their right minds would just allow someone to go into a store and buy a machine that is soley designed to kill? According to the Economist, since the Kennedy administration more Americans have died from guns than all the wars of the twentieth century. Are we all completly insane? Why are we allowing the NRA to put ourselves and our children in the bull's eye?
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