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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 1

Apparently, just because he could:

One teenager was seriously wounded and two others were injured in the Mantua section of the city Sunday when an unidentified gunman fired into a crowd walking from Fourth of July celebrations on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, police said.

(snip)

The teenagers, whose identities were not released, had crossed into West Philadelphia on the Spring Garden Street bridge. They did not appear to have been targeted, (Philadelphia Police Officer Christine–ed.) O’Brien said.

Don’t even think of trying to convince me he could have done this with a knife or a baseball bat.

Aside:

Once again, I am not against guns.

I do find laughable the notion that everyone’s running about packing heat is going to make public life more peaceable.

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  1. Cargosquid

    July 7, 2010 at 10:20 pm

    No, but if a person next to the shooter had had a weapon, perhaps that shooting would have gone a bit differently.  Philadelphia is a pro-gun control area so, apparently, gun control doesn’t work.
     
    Let’s try more liberty instead.

     
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