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"If you examine straw purchases, the impact is infinitesimal when compared with the impact of poor education, absentee fathers and a community lacking a moral focus and appropriate priorities."
this article about the Supreme Court's ruling on the DC gun laws. It goes back to my point I made earlier about how there should be required classes to teach gun safety, gun ownership rights and responsibility. Since people are allowed to go in, buy a gun and walk out without a firm focus on exactly what they're buying and why they're buying it.

2 arrests were made

In the Market Street shooting on Sunday. This was one of the approximatly 9 shootings over the weekend.

High court builds 2 story speed bump

Well crap. The ruling by the Supreme Court today has helped to strengthen the NRA's argument for weak gun laws.

"Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security and where gun violence is a serious problem," Scalia wrote. "That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct." _Justice Antonin Scalia

Perhaps the next course of action is to demand safety training compliance when purchasing a handgun. And continue to fight for One Gun a Month laws.

we're an example

Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey, left, and Mayor John Hickenlooper appear at a news conference Monday at Denver police headquarters to discuss the shootings over the weekend. (Karl Gehring, The Denver Post)

Denver is taking a new look at it's gun laws and using the situation here and Michael Nutters attempts to help as a model. If you have time, please write encouraging them to follow through and create the tougher laws. This might help prompt more cities and eventually our ignorant ass state council to do the same.

There were at least 9 shootings over this past weekend. I was trying to put together words about how badly things have to change, but the comments below the stories on the Inquirer's website say it for all of us.

Newlywed Killed at carwash

A robbery ended in the shooting death of a 37 year old newlywed man. No arrests have been made. That last sentence is probably the most published set of words in the Inquirer this year.

I'm sure they were for sporting use

Not so much. Former 76er Aaron Mckie has been arrested and charged with attempting to illegally purchase multiple handguns. It seems the system does have some checks that work.