Stupid Politians

Looks like Rendell and others were unable to sway the minds of gun-toting politians. I find it sad and extremely disheartening that these politicians aren't doing anything to help the murder and crime rates in what has now been dubbed "Killadelphia", because they have a constituency of back-minded hicks living in rural PA (the article nicely refers to these people as gun-rights stronghold in the southwest -- I like my version better). 

Rep. Ron Marsico (R., Dauphin), the committee's ranking Republican, said that he sympathized with Philadelphia's high crime rate, but that he did not believe "feel-good" gun-control bills were the answer.

Why don't they see that gun control is an important first step in improving the crime rate????  It's not like these laws are saying people who have guns can't have them.  Is it really so bad to make it just a little harder for people to be getting their hands on a gun????  Buying one handgun a month - that's the rule they wanted to make.  Why would a law-abiding citizen need to be buying more than one a month anyway?  This is just curbing the activities of criminals.

Stuff like this drives me nuts!