With gun violence on the rise and the slaying of numerous police officers in the last 12 months, the District Attorney’s role has never been more scrutinized. The time has come for a new DA and the public has a chance to preview their stance on gun control. There is a debate scheduled Thursday, April 16th 2009 and you are invited.
Joe Grace of Cease Fire PA
I’d like to invite you to an important event that CeaseFirePA is hosting this Thursday evening, April 16th, at 6 PM at Community College of Philadelphia: a full-blown debate in the race for District Attorney of Philadelphia.
The DA of Philadelphia is the city’s chief law enforcement officer, and what the next DA will do about gun violence and gun crime in the City is a chief focus of this debate Thursday evening.
But this election is about more than crime and gun violence in Philadelphia. Whoever wins this election and becomes the next DA will also have the bully pulpit to advocate for real reform of our state’s gun laws in Harrisburg, whether it’s for common sense reforms like reporting lost or stolen handguns to the police, banning assault weapons, or other reasonable regulations to help get illegal handguns off our streets and out of the hands of criminals.
As advocates for victims of violence, as former public officials who served this City well, as public officials at the State and City level, and as people who care about Philadelphia and about Pennsylvania, CeaseFirePA is asking you to do one of several things concerning this debate:
1. Come to the debate! It’s Thursday night at 6 PM in the College’s Bonnell Building, off 17th Street below Spring Garden Street.
2. Tell your friends and colleagues about this important event and urge them to come out and see for themselves who would be the best, next DA.
3. Email this email and the flyer for the debate out to your own lists, and suggest that your friends and colleagues do the same. Help us create some real buzz around this debate for this important position in the city’s and state’s criminal justice system.
4. Post the Flyer on your Facebook page or Twitter this event to your friends. Use social networking tools to help let people all over the city know that this is a good opportunity to meet and listen to the men who would be the next District Attorney of Philadelphia.
Thank you! We hope to see you there at the College Thursday night!
If you are not involved, you should not complain.
I have been a few places, seen a lot of things. I have had my hands in many fields. I may have answers for you if you have questions...even if you don't.
Gun control is bullshit. If the gun in the crime was not legally purchased or not legally owned, then what could does banning law biding citizens from purchasing guns?
You wanna end crime and gun violence? Make the legal guardians kids legally liable for their actions from birth to, 21 or as long as they legally leave at home, or are claimed as dependents.
Until the legal guardians of criminals feel there is a viable enough threat for fucking up in parenting, crime will persist. I could do a drive by through South Philly, West Philly, and North Philly during the right time of day and guarantee that the crime rate drops 85%.
They are not trying to ban people from legally owning guns, they just want
people to be more responsible with the ones they own. They also want to make
sure that the people that cannot purchase guns legally, due to have a
criminal record, cannot skip the legal loop hole and buy guns at
conventions.
If you did a drive by through out Philadelphia, that would just add violence
in a violent city.
It would add violence? Its not violence when its taking out other criminals. Its justice, or vindication, or retribution, or whatever else works.
Also,by the rationale of these politician, we should make it much harder to purchase a car or get a license…or get alcohol. Drunk driving and non-alcohol related auto deaths out number gun deaths by a landslide.
If everyone started stabbing more frequently than using guns, would we ban kitchen knives? Would a licensed chef have to come to your house to dice your food up for you?
Banning things, making them illegal, does absolutely nothing to deter it from happening. Drugs are a prime example. Degenerates will always be degenerates. Laws only affect the law fearing and law abiding. Laws do nothing to deter the criminal. They've accepted being committed to their criminal life style.
You wanna end gun violence? Make it mandatory for everyone to have to take guns classes and mandatory for everyone to carry a firearm at all times. Look at all the towns in Texas and other midwestern states where close to 90% of the citizens carry a fire arm; there is next to no violence from guns, and almost no violent crime.
Who cares about criminals skipping the loop hole? They'll just get guns through another means any way. They're criminals, that's what they do. And if all the law that wanted to amend dealt solely to the legal purchases made by convicted felons, then it wouldn't be such a hot button issue. The point is there is other underwriting in there that effects lawful citizens.
The laws are not banning the guns (I think I said that before).
They are trying to make it harder to obtain them outside of controlled
access. If someone commits a crime using a gun they straw purchased, then
the original owner is held liable fot the crime as well. I do not understand
why you have such an issue with someone taking responsibility for their
actions.
and by your rayionale, justified violence is ok, and I am sure the people
that have gone out there and shot people can justify their actions as well.
You cannot seriously look at Texas as a good example…they like dragging
black people around on the back of pick up trucks.
Sooo…if I steal your car and hit three people, should you be held responsible and liable since it was your car?
Just don't sell your unnecessary instrument of death to someone illegally and you have nothing to worry about. You are also assuming that the people committing the crimes are easily identified based on how they are raised…but you just talked about killing someone and that is a crime regardless of how justified it is (unless it is direct self defense).
Also, most of the serial killers out there had loving families.
Just don't sell your unnecessary instrument of death to someone illegally and you have nothing to worry about. You are also assuming that the people committing the crimes are easily identified based on how they are raised…but you just talked about killing someone and that is a crime regardless of how justified it is (unless it is direct self defense).
Also, most of the serial killers out there had loving families.