Reply #49: let's look at PA and cop killers.............

[one-eyed fat man]

The clarion call has been sounded, both by the politicians and the media in Pennsylyvania, that the only way to prevent cop killings is to pass more gun laws. You seem to agree. Lets look at the three thugs that killed the Philly cop last year.

Howard Cain was the trigger man in the Liczbinski murder. You can see his fifteen page criminal record here.Howard Cain
[br />Look at all the violations of the Pennsylvania Uniform Firearms Act that Cain has been arrested for. Keep in mind, these are only gun charges. Over Cain’s criminal career he had thirteen arrests for unlawfully carrying a firearm, that were listed “Nolle Prossed,” meaning the prosecutor chose not to bring charges. In a further eleven arrests for violations of Pennsylvania’s firearms laws, the charges were either withdrawn or dismissed. In only three cases was he prosecuted and either plead guilty or was found guilty. On weapons charges alone, he could have done 12 years in prison, in which case he would not have been on the streets to kill a police officer.

You can find Levon Warner’s criminal record here. Levon Warner
His is only six pages. Warner is facing three charges for being a felon in possession of a firearm, and for unlawfully carrying firearms, in his latest arrest for conspiring to murder a police officer. Do you think Ms. Abraham’s office will make them stick this time? Previously, the Philadelphia DA’s office thrice declined to prosecute Warner for gun law violations. The Philadelphia judicial system chose not to try him for six other violations of Pennsylvania’s gun laws.

And last, but certainly not least, Eric Floyd.Eric Flyod

Again, hopefully this time, he’ll actually face weapons charges, in addition to the murder charges. But again, in 1994, he was arrested for robbery, and the prosecutors declined to prosecute him for carrying firearms illegally in two counts. Also in 1994, the courts declined to try him for two counts of carrying firearms illegally.

Now keep in mind, this is only weapons charges. The rap sheets of these scumbags total twenty six pages, and contains all manner of things that should have kept them off the streets for good. Maybe you should ask Governor Rendell why the Pennsylvania criminal justice system is so absolutely and utterly broken.

The Pittsburgh shooter, a 27 year-old, still living with his momma loser, unlike most cop-killers, didn't have years of arrest records before he started blasting. Poplawski had been expelled from high school and was dishonorably discharged from the Marines. With a Dishonorable Discharge it was against the law for him to have a gun. The law failed to stop him.

Gun control laws obviously cannot be the panacea you propose, since the system is currently not using the laws already in the books in prosecutions. Don't you think you deserve better from your political leaders? You going to fight hard to pass more gun "restrictions" the crooks won't obey and your prosecutors won't prosecute??

Maybe that's why your politicians are out grabbing headlines, so you won't notice the "catch and release" policies they have been using for years aren't quite working.