Holy gracious news!A judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging Pittsburgh's ordinance that requires gun owners to report lost or stolen guns to the police. (P-G, Ed Blazina)
Or...
Once Pittsburgh begins enforcing the law, someone who is charged with violating it could challenge the legality of the law. (ibid)
And that person would almost certainly win, which is why Pittsburgh is never going to enforce this law -- until we get a mayor who is such a huge gun control activist that he or she is willing to set what could be a million dollars on fire, just to cause a stink that nobody but other gun control activists will care about. I hate this issue. Everybody is right in some aspects, everybody is wrong in others, and all the while nothing is going to happen.
*-CORRECTION/UPDATE: Mayor Ravenstahl says he's going to talk to Chief Harper about enforcing the law.
One thing is for certain though. We should definitely hold another mayoral election in which every other question and comment is about gun control as broadly as possible.
So should I take my gun in from the porch or not?
ReplyDeleteSounds like you can leave it, but that couch has got to go.
ReplyDeleteI thought Carmen Robinson had the only local solution to the straw purchasing issue. Let the ATF worry about it on the national level, those guns are going to Mexico anyway...
ReplyDeleteThey'll have to pry my gun from my cold fingers after I pass-out on the lounge chair.
ReplyDeleteYou forgot the fact that Luke is dumb enough to try to enforce this.
ReplyDeleteWe're still allowed to fire into the air if the Steelers win, aren't we?
ReplyDeleteAnother definition of folly: Everybody is right in some aspects, everbody is wrong in others, and all the while nothing is going to happen.
ReplyDeletePut that into Websters!
It may be just another law on the books, or it may help police officers in investigations down the road. Who knows? It can't hurt regardless.
ReplyDeleteI think gun control is not hte proper term here, it should probably gun responsibility
Folly hurts, without regard. Folly hurts everyone.
ReplyDeleteuntil we get a mayor who is such a huge gun control activist
ReplyDeleteDon't be so sure.
Luke Ravenstahl is a member of Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun Mayors Against Guns.
I was a bit concerned that yesterday's article didn't have a quote from the mayor. Fortunately, today we got a cliche: "but nevertheless we're going to forge ahead"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09203/985438-53.stm
Forge ahead and what exactly?
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking about filing a Right To Know request to discover what other ordinances Pittsburgh officially does not enforce. There might be something good in there.
I'm not sure what he meant. I was just happy to see that the PG went through the trouble to get a cliche and that the mayor found a slight variation on 'move forward'.
ReplyDeleteYou know what? Here's a danger of reading newspapers online. You read something breaking on Day 1, and when it comes out in print on Day 2 you think, "Oh, I already read this article" and there's actually new news.
ReplyDeleteMayor Ravenstahl indicated that he's going to have a conversation with Chief Harper about actually enforcing the ordinance. This merits a correction in a post soon.