Nutter Sounding Founding Fatherish On Gun Control

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.