Cop Killed in Philly: Mayor Says NRA Should Apologize
Over the weekend one of Philadelphia’s finest paid the ultimate price. A group of three men dressed in Muslim garb walked into a bank inside a grocery store carrying guns and robbed it. Responding to the call police Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski was gunned down by Howard Cain, a career criminal who served the minimum sentence for a 1996 robbery and was released early after serving the bare minimum of his 9-18 year sentence last year. Another suspect was nabbed immediately after the robbery, while another remains on the loose.
But does Mayor Michael Nutter blame the prison system? Nope. He blames the NRA and says that the organization should apologize to Liczbinski’s family for opposing an assault weapons ban. Cain killed the office with a Chinese SKS.
Of course the Mayor doesn’t explain why the career criminals involved in the robbery would have heeded the assault weapons ban after they ignored the law barring felons from possessing firearms of any type, let alone assault weapons. More on the story at The Razor.
BTW I don’t belong to the NRA, and I have written positively about the new Philadelphia mayor. But this lack of insight and common sense at a time when Philadelphia is in the midst of a crime wave makes me wonder what is wrong with the guy. I hope it’s just disgust and anger due to the shock of losing one of the City’s Finest, but the mayor should know better.
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This sounds like a fairy tale. The story of the ___(you fill in the blank) mayor.
As a convicted felon, it’s already illegal for Cain to have the SKS.
So, OK. Why not actually pass a law that makes it finally and absolutely against the law to break the law. Wow. That will work, won’t it? If not, then let’s pass a law to make it against the law to break the law that’s against the law to break the law that was originally against the law. And if that gets too expensive, then we’ll just let ‘em out early.
I think I’m starting to see an overall pattern here.
In their mind, it’s not the criminals.
Civilians are the enemy. And controlling criminals is too hard and too expensive to really do. So, as long as they don’t kill police/teachers/administrators or other government officials, then it’s good public policy for officials to let them out, save their budgets and redirect their efforts and interests toward things they like to do.
But civilians have rights and that’s a problem. Because the civilians have rights, it makes it hard for police/teachers/administrators and other government officials to get their jobs done. And because civilians have rights, criminals and bad people take advantage and that’s bad for government workers who would have a better life and enjoy their jobs more if it wasn’t for those civilians and their rights.
This tragedy in Philly is just another, more violent version of the physical beating that took place in SK’s daughters 5th Grade classroom. Parents are just another euphemism for civilian.
If you really start to look around you see the patterns of this indifference and separatism in public service everywhere.
And sadly, the bulk of those in charge of our tax dollars directing the funding of the sloth and twisted rationalizations which try to justify the insanity of what is happening in our schools, our streets, our law enforcement culture, our state, local and county governments… most are hardened Democrats who take the money with one hand and blame civil society with the other. More government is the answer, they say.
But how are we civilians to enjoy a civil society when our organs of government are locked in codependency with the culture of criminals in our midst?
We may indeed be on the precipice of having the very culture of local government our nation’s founders feared. Too many of our communities are out of control. And those responsible for managing and protecting civilian interests are crawling into their authoritarian cocoon, demanding higher salaries, bigger budgets and more restrictive laws, rather than enforcing the laws they have.
This tragedy in Philly is indeed evidence of a heinous betrayal, shining a bright light on the sociopaths who rise to positions of governmental authority.
The mayor is only upset because ‘one of his own’ was killed. Get that? One of his own.
Had it been your or my family member, an ordinary civilian, the mayor wouldn’t have offered a peep.
When was the last time you heard a big city mayor publicly morn the loss of a civilian killed by criminals on the streets of their city?
That won’t happen very often.
We’re no longer one of them. We’re the problem.
And that’s the biggest problem of all.
I think every workplace like this grocery store that doesn’t have a strict "you can’t bring guns in here" policy should also be to blame. Those crooks would never bring guns into a business establishment if they knew there was a rule against it! Especially if you put up a big sign saying so! Where’s the outrage?!?
Not only that, but the SKS wasn’t banned by the AWB in the first place.
Unless it’s been customized, the SKS does not have a removable magazine which is the first requirement of the AWB.
So even if that stupid law had passed the criminals wouldn’t be able to be prosecuted under it.
After reading the post at The Razor and it’s linked articles, it appears that the SKS was modified to accept a detachable magazine.
However, it still didn’t meet all the criteria of an "Assault Weapon" under the AWB. It did have a large capacity magazine, but it would still need at least one of: Folding stock, Pistol Grip, Bayonet mount, Flash Suppressor, or Grenage Launcher.
However, none of these features were included in the description of the weapon.
So, still not an "Assault Weapon".
The thing I hate about the GFW (gun fearing wussies) is that they are cowards.
Not cowards about guns, but they’re to scared to admit the truth: It has nothing to do with guns, and it has everything to do with defective people. They can’t admit that some humans are not able to fit in a peaceful society at all, and that society should take care of that problem. Instead it’s the easy answer to take away all the tools and toys until there is nothing left for the defectives to hurt others with. But the problem is there is always another tool.
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Yu: Having seen a picture of the weapon in question in the press, it also had a folding stock with pistol grip. (Folding stocks for the Simonov rifle are commonly available, so that’s not a big surprise.)
It might well have been modified such as to violate 18USC922(r), though that’s not the AWB.
(Of course, they also had a .44 revolver in their car, perfectly capable of killing the hell out of someone and equally illegal for a felon to own.)
Sigivald,
Thanks for the update. None of the articles I saw mentioned those. So it does appear that it would have been covered by the AWB, but as others mentioned, any takers that that law would have been followed by a felon who had already ignored the law that said he couldn’t possess a gun in the first place?
Beuller? Beuller?
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