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Nutter recently signed five local gun bills into law, including one that would outlaw the possession and sale of certain assault weapons. The NRA immediately sued the city on the grounds that the city does not have the authority to enact local gun control. They obtained a temporary restraining order to keep the city from enforcing the new laws.
Liczbinski was killed with a Chinese-made assault weapon.
"I think it's insane," Nutter said. "The fact that we put forward a piece of legislation to prevent the sale and use and transfer of assault weapons and have a Philadelphia police officer assaulted on the streets with one, I think makes it pretty clear to anyone who is confused about this issue that there's no reason for any citizen, any person other than in law enforcement or in the military to have such a weapon."
He added: "There's no legitimate argument by the NRA, they need to get in the real world where the rest of us live and come to grips with these kinds of issues. They owe an apology to the family for their staunch opposition over many, many years blocking legislative support for these kinds of matters."
We called the NRA for response and will update when we hear back.
Nutter also said that Eric Floyd -- one of three suspects in the case who remained at large last night -- should turn himself in.
"He needs to turn himself in as quickly as he can. He knows that we're looking for him.He knows that we know who he is, what he looks like," Nutter said.
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Good Luck Nutter. You can not use reason when you try to reason with those inbred NRA morons.
What he should do is arrange for a bus to go to the cow pastures of Central PA and pick up all those NRA nuts and bring them to Philly. Let them try to survive one night on the streets here and see if they still want to block the assault weapon ban.
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Love or hate the NRA there still is that little ol' state constitution to deal with. Nutter needs to be focusing more on preventing innocent people from being slain in the middle of the afternoon on SEPTA platforms, ridding the streets of trash both paper and human and not trying for the cheap sound byte of the day over another dead PPD officer.
Please don't tell me you think if this "ban" went into effect that it would have prevented this tragedy. The problem with gun 'control' laws is that criminals have no regard for them - you can make all the laws you want, but its not going to make these scumbags think twice before taking a legal or illegal gun and firing at another one of our brave men and women of the PPD. These people were robbing a bank - they obviously have no regard for laws or society - I hope the other 2 involved fry - unfortunatly only 1 of these scumbags actually paid a just price for their cowardice.
Keep blaming the gun. It's never the person who pulled the trigger. Was it a legally owned gun? I'm thinking not. Remember, When you outlaw guns, only outlaws WILL have them. Let's solve the crime problem. Maybe Mayor Nutter should give an apolgy for not having safe streets.
the NRA is nothing but a money hungry lobby - many many former members are disenchanted with the NRA and have since left... they care about nothing but money!
This is a joke right? The NRA Apoligize? How about the criminals themselves apoligize to the family, or the sorry parents who didn't raise their children to be law abiding citizens, or the school system that probably failed them. Pass all of the gun laws you want, it doesn't take away from the fact that criminals will get a hold of firearms. I bet you anything that the guns used were obtained illegally by these animals.
Thank goodness for organizations like the NRA which uphold my 2nd amendment right to protect myself from criminals like this if need be.
The mayor has it all wrong. The NRA owes no one an apology. Every liberal in America should be the ones to apologize to this officer's family. The three animals that killed this officer were career criminals with arrests for armed robbery. They should have been executed after the first time they committed a violent crime. Instead they were sent away on a free vacation for a few years, with free housing, free food, free medical care, free job training, and free education. Oh, and of course, they also had plenty of free time to mastermind their next vionet crime. America needs to have zero tolerance for violent crime - one strike and your out. Instead, we have liberal America consistently blaming criminal behavior on everyone except the criminal. As liberal America continues to find new and better ways to blame everyone else, animals like this will continue to terrorize our society. There is no hope for a society that tries to provide more help to criminals, then is provided to children and the elderly.
Sure Nutter....I"m sure the weapon was purchased legally, and that legislation would have prevented this whole tragedy. Maybe the legal system should apologize for allowing this scum to walk around with thr rest of us...or maybe Street should apologize for not cleaning up the trash in this city during his terms in office. Nah, it's the NRA's fault that criminals are killing cops.
Well said Two5ten. Nutter, where is your responsibility for the safe city? Increase funding to our police department - and provide them with the resources they need to take this city back for law abiding citizens
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The mayor(s) should be apologizing to the citizens for leaving all of these violent offenders on the street unsupervised. Do you think someone who would rob a bank after serving 9years for robbery is concerned about the citys *unenforcable* made-up gun laws? Were these guys NRA members? There is a reason why the 1994 assault weapons ban was lifted, it was too vague and made no impact on violent crime.
Search for yourself, type in the names of the three criminals:
http://ujsportal.pacourts.us/WebDocketSheets/OtherCriteria.aspx?mode=mc
View their records for firearms offenses and then wonder why they were out on the street with your kids.
This is silly! Passing gun laws have little to no effect on criminals who can't legally own guns anyway. How many people go out and legally buy guns to murder and rob with???
The real failure here is the lax legal system and the bleeding heart liberals who give these criminals light sentences and free reign in a halfway house.
Criminals are in the wrong not law abiding citizens who want guns.
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Why should the NRA apologize for some bandit who bought a gun illegally and used it to commit a capital crime? When are we going to start blaming criminals for their acts? How about tracing the gun to see how it got here? How it got to the murderer's hands? The NRA does not defend criminals. It shouls not need to apologize for any.
Hey Nutter, how about asking the Judge who gave these scumbags parole to apologize the the policeman's family? Why don't you ask the people that raised these animals to apologize to the family? While you are at it, stop blaming the NRA for everything to deflect blame from you and the chief of police. Rounds these animals up and put them in jail for the rest of their lives.
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