Hierarchical government a pain? Separation of powers getting you down? Not a problem! Not if you’d rather be in Philadelphia:
Two Philadelphia City Council members plan to file suit against the state House and Senate Wednesday for preventing the city from passing more restrictive gun laws.
Council members Donna Reed Miller and Darrell Clarke called the city’s surging homicide rate in part a “state-created danger.”
Lawmakers have tied the city’s hands by not giving it the authority to limit gun purchases to one a month and require lost or stolen guns to be reported, according to Miller.
I’m sure the city does feel bad that it can’t pass more laws to make it feel good about the fact that its residents have turned America’s first capital into a shooting gallery… mm, like its present capital. But that is the fool’s perspective; for see how the state is even described — in its role in actually arrogating to itself the right to set policies for, er, the state — not as a sort accessory to crime, or, switching to civil liablity, a but-for cause or even a proximate cause. No, homicide in Brotherlovopolis are a “state-created danger”! Only a sage who merits a seat on the Philadelphia City Council can see these murders committed by carbon-based entities in Philadelphia for what they are: The product of passive, robotic mayhem-slaves of the blood-lusting Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, doing its cynically William Penn-garbed bidding and killing! Killing! Killing!
Quaker State indeed.
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