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Thursday, April 10, 2008
Nutter Sounding Founding Fatherish On Gun Control
HBO's "John Adams"

PhillyClout, knowing that Mayor Nutter was a big fan of HBO's "The Wire," now suspects that he's been watching the channel's new mini-series "John Adams," about one of this country's founding fathers.  Consider some of the things Nutter said today while signing into law five new local gun control measures, in defiance of a state General Assembly that claims only it has the right to regulate guns:

"We have petitioned our government but our pleas have been ignored."

"We're going to make us independent of the violence that has been taking place in this city for far too long."

"The long road to freedom and independence requires many, many attempts."

And Nutter tossed in one not-so-veiled reference to slavery:

"If we all sat around bemoaning what the law was on a regular basis, I'd probably be picking cotton somewhere as opposed to being mayor of the city of Philadelphia."

Somebody get this guy a tri-corner hat.

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About Chris Brennan and Catherine Lucey
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Chris Brennan, a native Philadelphian and graduate of Temple University, joined the Daily News in 1999. He has written about SEPTA, the Philadelphia School District, the legalization of casino gambling, state government, the mayor, the governor, City Council and political campaigns.

Catherine Lucey joined the Daily News in 2002. Since then she has written about murderous drug gangs, political protesters and Harry Potter. For the past two years, she covered the 2007 mayoral election. Now that the battle is over, she has moved down to the City Hall bureau where she will report on the Nutter administration.

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