Alphecca

"The poll also found that 76 percent of suburban voters support a statewide ban on assault weapons."

Too bad we can't have a statewide ban on suburban voters.

Same old medicine: gun control! Can't these lefty come up with some new plans? They are so tiring. I know dear lefty, find and lock up your local mutants for a refreshing change. You would be surprized at the results. By the way Mr. Jeff, i got a new Marlin 30-30 rifle yesterday. I'm shootin' it tommorrow. My first lever-action Marlin center-fire. Thought i would share that with you=).

The state certainly does have a large number of NRA members, but I seriously doubt it's anywhere close to a million. A quarter million I'd buy.

I've sent a letter to my state rep, who is, I'm pretty sure, sympathetic to our cause. But it never hurts to make our presence known. I'm a pretty suburban distrct, six miles north of Philadelphia. The politicians here are mostly city or near city democrats. One of them is actually my friend's brother-in-law, and as far as I know he's not really that anti-gun... weird.

The problem with their "survey" is that it is horribly skewed by where they took it...you have to remember that Bill Clinton's political analyst James Carville once said that “Pennsylvania politics is like Philadelphia on one end, Pittsburgh on the other, with Alabama in the middle." Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties comprise only the suburban areas around Philly...I'd pretty much bet that in most of the state you'd be hard pressed to get 15% support. This isn't something new, they've been hammering it for a few years now and the mayor of Philadelphia has been a HUGE campaigner for this issue. ALL of my congressmen and, in fact, every single congressional hopeful from my district from every party in this election term expressed nothing but solid support for 2A rights. It's pretty simple: if you want to be elected from my district it is literally political suicide to have an anti-gun platform and an anti-gun vote would spell the end of your career.

The mayor of "Philthydelphia" is merely using the firearms issue to distract people from the hellhole that Philly has been for years and how rapidly it is declining. They created an atmosphere that appealed to lowlifes and scum, they didn't want to actually DEAL with the problems and now they need a scapegoat to blame for the tragedy.

I suppose I simply quote the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - "The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be questioned."

A second on Greg's comment about the poll. They might as well have said "we polled the humanities faculty at University of Pennsylvania".

I saw the Pennsylvania Junior Team shooting assault rifles at Camp Perry the first week of August during CMP week. Don't tell the mayor!

I own 8 assualt weapons and I will never give them up! never! Assualt weapons have nothing to do with crime. liberal socialists need to disarm us so we can't fight them. An unarmed society is an inslaved society. I have moved three times so I can keep my guns. We need to exercise our second amendment rights. When will it be the right time to bear arms?