ANALYSIS/OPINION:
The Democratic mayor of Pittsburgh[1], William Peduto[2], has reacted to a recent Tree of Life Synagogue killing spree that left 11 dead by proposing bans on certain firearms, bump stocks and magazines that he deems high capacity.
He also wants the power to issue “extreme risk protection orders” to give courts the right to confiscate firearms from those deemed by police or family members to pose a “significant danger,” according to the draft of his proposed legislation.
And all the legal gun owners in America should go: You first, Mr. Mayor.
You first give up your armed security detail, your office guards, your hired protection forces — and then maybe, just maybe, your proposal won’t sound quite so hypocritical.
The proposal will, however, still break Second Amendment rights. No matter how “common sense” these newest anti-gun proposals are being sold, they’re still clear violations of the Second Amendment. That’s already been established, more than once.
“The ordinances that the city of Pittsburgh[3] [are] contemplating are illegal, and the city should know this because we beat them in 1994, and we’re going to beat them again,” said[4] Kim Stolfer, the president of Firearms Owners Against Crime, in WTAE.com.
And Amy Hunter, an NRA Institute for Legislative Action spokesperson, added this: “The draft ordinances, if enacted as written, would infringe fundamental rights, violate state law and cost taxpayers dearly because the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has already twice invalidated similar ordinances.”
Court? Democrats don’t need no stinkin’ court — they have emotions on their side, right?
The ordinances are Democrats’ way of pretending like they’re doing something to fight crime,
