PHILADELPHIA, Penn — The mayor of Philadelphia has called for the families of the victims of a mass shooting over the Independence Day holiday to sue gun dealers, and gun shows out of business.
The city of Philadelphia has been plagued with violence under the leadership of Mayor Jim Kenney since he took office. The city has attempted to restrict the Second Amendment rights of its residents, leaving them defenseless against criminals and gangs that infest the City of Brotherly Love.
Over the long holiday weekend, a crazed madman disregarded the city’s laws and shot and killed five people, including a fifteen-year-old boy. Instead of addressing the violence that infests the nation’s birthplace, the mayor has targeted the gun industry by pushing the victim’s families to file lawsuits against gun shops and shows, claiming that these businesses should not have sold guns to the shooter.
The mayor didn’t say what “red flags” the murderer exhibited. Maybe Mayor Kenney was concerned that the shooter was a cross-dresser. There has been an uptick in members of the trans community carrying out attacks across the nation, or perhaps he is concerned that the attacker supported Black Lives Matter (BLM). During the summer of the BLM protest, many cities burned, and several people were killed.
If the mayor is referencing the trans attacks or the BLM riots, he will never publicly admit it or blame those communities. What other signs could the gun shops pick up on? Is the mayor stating that gun shows should bar members of the LGBTQI+ from entering the complexes?
Also, we must remind the mayor that correlation doesn’t equal causation. The trans community and BLM should not be blamed for the actions of an unstable individual. The gun also shouldn’t be blamed. A firearm is a tool that can be used for good or evil, and more often, a gun is used in self-defense rather than a crime.
Mayor Kenney’s solution to the ongoing violence in the city is to make it harder for law-abiding citizens to defend themselves from the thugs that do not follow the laws in the first place. Instead of enacting real solutions to the epidemic of crime in Philadelphia, the mayor is using guns as a scapegoat. What he is doing is covering up for his failed leftist policies that have not only failed in his city but have failed in Democrat-run cities across the country.
The Keystone Victory Fund, a super PAC focused on protecting gun rights in Pennsylvania, also took note of the mayor’s attack on lawful businesses. AmmoLand News spoke to the PAC’s Chair, Col. (Dr.) Val Finnell, USAF, Ret., about Kenney’s comments.
“Mayor Jim Kenney is once again showing his hostility to the Second Amendment by attacking legitimate businesses rather than holding the mass murderer responsible for his actions,” Dr. Finnell told AmmoLand. “Apparently, Jim Kenney doesn’t want law-abiding Philadelphians to be able to purchase firearms locally to defend themselves. Remember, this is the mayor who tried banning guns in city parks, making honest citizens targets for criminals.”
As long as Jim Kenney is in office, the city of Philadelphia will not get safer, and the city will continue to try to infringe on the gun rights of its residents.
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Here’s a novel idea: Let’s sue corrupt, treasonous politicians ‘out of existence’.
“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” – Joseph Stalin
I have a better idea, do you get my drift?
And it’s not using violence or the voting booth
Tis a SHAME when “politicians” ABANDON, ABDICATE their SWORN OATH of OFFICE!! I believe there is a part that they SWEAR to DEFEND the CONSTITUTION against ENEMIES, BOTH Foreign AND DOMESTIC! With the actions of this “politician” he has SHOWN to be a DOMESTIC ENEMY of OUR AMERICAN CONSTITUTION!!!
All these scummy politicians believe OUR Constitution is a living document. As the late Antonin Scalia opined…”You would have to be an idiot to believe that.”
When are the American Citizens in Communist Progressive and Democrat controlled cities come to their common sense. It’s unbelievable how corrupt and ignorant the lying Blue Politicians are.
Not until it actually bites them on the ass and someone tells them about it.
I call for the mayor to be recalled and forced out of politics forever!
Ever politician has committed some type of crime, just dig into it and find the right person to pursue it
Back to my assertion that the polls on the American peoples’ opinions on gun control are worthless.
Ant that’s because for the most part, the American people, their cops, their politicians, and even their President are ignorant on just exactly what laws are currently in place.
The good mayor couldn’t have presented a better example.
The action he’s advocating is against the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. (PLCAA)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerce_in_Arms_Act
DDS – that is exactly why slow joe wants to get PLCAA voided – he knows he can’t overwhelm the industry with (mostly) frivolous lawsuits while it is still in effect. Too many folks forget (or never knew) that the lawfare tactic is exactly why that law was enacted in the first place.
50 years ago I asked my granddad ‘…why were so many criminals set free?’. He said ‘…if they were locked up for life or executed, the judges and prosecutors would starve to death’.
Whether from the mouth of this mayor, from the mouth of Philly’s DA, Larry Krasner or the mouths of most Dem pols, it’s always about guns; never about criminals. One of these idiots should be offered ten thousand dollars, to go into a sporting goods store or gun dealer, in any state of choosing (on camera), to buy a gun without a background check. I bet no “reporter” will take the offer.
Wass – IIRC one of that group actually did try that tactic a few years back and couldn’t believe that he could NOT simply go in and plunk down cash and walk out with a gun. It was in the shytown area. Turns out he was a prohibited person as well.
Sorry, I forgot to include, gun shows, in the proposed bet. The “Gun Show Loophole”, another one of those bull shit myths, unloaded by anti-gunners.
There is certainly no shortage of terms that the Left has bent to their ends or invented out of nothingness to promote their agenda. Should we use the very terms they’ve invented to help themselves out? ‘ “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and… Read more »
Negotiating and trying to find common ground with the Left is like trying to negotiate with a Terminator.
They don’t want compromise. They want it all. And they’ll use your attempt to find common ground against you.
You can use Marquess of Queensberry rules in a knife fight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_of_Queensberry_Rules
But you will lose.
“Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.” — Kyle Reese in “Terminator”
Guns aren’t violent,some people are.
M44 – I won’t chastise you for using that term, enough others have already done so 😉
What I will do is suggest (as I have to others in the past) that you put it in quotes – “gun violence” – I have also challenged some gun writers to try to find out who invented that term – no success yet.
I made a similar challenge to find out who came up with the dreaded “assault weapon” invented term. Dave Workman tracked that one down – Art Agnos in kalypornia circa 1977, perpetuated willingly by josh sugarmann.
I don’t use their anti gun phrases. I don’t mean to demean you, I know you are on the right side! Thanks.
Using the leftist’s terms give their terms “legs”, or credence. Just like the term “assault weapon”, a fictional item, but now the term is even used in laws.
m44 – nope – it hasn’t stopped those bogus terms from being used but that doesn’t mean WE should keep using them.
Sort of like the ‘gun’ writer who claimed that those of us who try to use correct terms (magazine instead of ‘clip) are being pedantic.
The same Mayor who did his Happy Dance in the hallway after the council voted to become a Sanctuary City for Illegal Alien invaders.
Illegals need a disincentive to keep them from returning. Crossing the boarder illegally should result in two years hard labor, followed by a return to the country of origin. Subsequent incursions should be punished incrementally.
The best idea would be, severed heads on pole at the border with signs in Spanish saying…” Turn back, now!”
Ah yes. A tactic used with great success by Vlad Dracul (Vlad the Impaler) when he sought to keep the Ottoman Muslim Turks out of Romania. The only difference is that Vlad staked whole bodies at the border and along the roads.
I know it’s a difficult thing to ask, I despise public unions.
BUT, a thought…..All the gun and ammunition manufacturers, all the dealers, come together in common cause, and whenever one of these nonConstitutional Gooberment wanna-be tyrants decides to try to trample on the citizens’ 2A rights, this “union” declares (in the words of the Seinfeld Soup Nazi), “NO ZOUP FOR YOU!”. No gun/ammunition sales, no gun repairs – for the Gooberment law enforcement & bodyguards.
Yes, there are holes in this idea large enough to drive a 5T tractor-trailer through, but, it’s a thought.
Toxic – there are some groups that are loosely affiliated who are trying to do that. Also, some manufacturers have come out with policies that they will not conduct business with .gov organizations that have draconian anti gun policies in place.
Could they be more organized, perhaps, but that ‘might’ mean they have to consort with their competitors.
Kinney can run his mouth until he is blue in the face. Pennsylvania has preemption, and every time Philthy or $hittsburgh pass some illegal gun law they get smacked down in the courts. The real danger is that our state legislative districts got gerrymandered by the Dem PA supreme court prior to 2022. For the first time in my memory, in 2022 Rs lost control of the state house. They still control the state senate so nothing anti gun can move as long as the senate Rs have a backbone. But the danger of losing preemption, or them passing some… Read more »
So, based on this mayor’s logic, if we want to stop drunk driving we should ban vehicles from everybody else?
Question: why is it when a cop shoots someone it’s the cop’s fault, but if an ordinary person shoots someone it’s the gun’s fault???
skip – good analysis overall but I will point out that those who commit murders, especially mass ones, are far from “ordinary’ people.
The Mayor is a fourteen carot loser. He needs to be impeached for dereliction of his duty.
What an elegant and simple solution. Maybe that’s why Demented DemonRats are against it!
POS’s like this guy really piss me off. First they create the problem with their policies, then they want to punish those who haven’t caused any problems. You and me. Anymore, they don’t go after the real bad guys in any meaningful way.
It isn’t about making people safe, their polices are all about enslaving people.
This is what marxist, communist and totalitarians do. They use “the law” to control you. I’m all for law and order, but I do stand against a system that is bent on destroying freedom.
There’s an old saying…” You can take animals out of the jungle but, you can’t take the jungle out of them!”
Philadelphia residents call for tarring and feathering of mayor.
If the killer had used a truck, would he advocate suing Ford out of business?
More that five times as many people die, annually, of drug overdoses than by the media hyped “gun violence”.
Yet there’s little concern over these 100,000 deaths.
Why?
Because drugs cannot be used to bring down tyrannical government.
Also, drugs dull the wits of the people to make them easier to control and abuse! And, they put large amounts of money in the pockets of corrupt politicians and law enforcement!
I wonder what Jimmy would say if Philly cops were unable to purchase guns, ammo, holsters, gun belts, etc?
Better yet, corrupt Liberal politicians should be hung and put out of business.
There are three big problems in Philadelphia. Kenny and Krasner’s leniency on crime are the first two. The other is black people just can’t control themselves. They kill each other on a nightly basis in Philadelphia and every big city around the country.
When people officially swear an oath before the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY to defend the people, the nation and, in this case, the constitution and then either refuse to do so or attempt to subvert or destroy it, that is called TREASON in my book. When non oath swearing citizens do the same things, it’s called TYRANNY in my book. It should be noted that both of these CRIMES are CAPITOL OFFENCES and thus they are both worthy of CAPITOL PUNISHMENT. I suggest that the courts and law enforcement start doing their sworn jobs and arrest and prosecute these criminals lest… Read more »
We can always rely on incompetent politicians to point fingers away from themselves and blame lawful citizens for gun crime!! This argument is so old and worn out but that’s only because it falls on deaf, denying and stupid ears!! Can’t do anything about the real crime in your city?? Blame the gun dealers!! Blame the gun owning public!! But don’t treat crime with any real seriousness! How in God’s Good Name does this continue?
Classic, will not, or can not do his job. Blame someone else.
I guess that Phiily cops will never need more.new guns. Whew!
How about sueing the Quack Doctors and Therapists enabling the Fruit Nutjob to be out on the streets, instead of the Psych Ward where he belongs.
Loser…..
How about we stop allowing him food and water…
3 weeks ought to do it…
When a mentally ill idiot takes a gun and kills people to promote the lefts gun control agendas it should have the opposite effect .
A much more efficient solution would be to execute the shooters and do that in an expeditious manner. As an example, the Walmart shooter in El Paso in 2019 is just now getting sentenced for years later for killing 39 people. Execute the SOB’s within 60 days. Perhaps publicly??