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I understand that it is our Constitutional right to bear arms....however.........upon re-reading the Constitution of the United States of America, I think they were talking about defending oneself from foreign invasion, Indian attacks, etc............not standing over a policeman in North Philadelphia and shooting him in cold blood several times in the chest, or obtaining an illegal firearm (s)  the day a convicted felon gets out of prison!!! 
 
I THINK CONVICTED* FELONS* RAPISTS* MURDERERS SHOULD LOSE THEIR RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS* PERIOD*


I do not think it means that we allow legislators who obviously have no idea what it is like to bury a child, a father and valued community service contributor, a brother or sister, a friend,............ killed in the crossfire of a senseless battle with young gang members out for revenge, to decide what is best for us/Philadelphians.  Where did they get the guns???????. 
They got them from you Harrisburg!!!!!.  They have your OK to KILL and continue KILLING!!!!!!!  Yeah...you gave them the home free pass. **** Law abiding citizens have no need for firearms in normal everyday activities!!!!!!!!!
I think you need to take a walk in the neighborhoods with Mayor Nutter and Commissioner Ramsey after a killing or visit the hospital where all police, family, friends await the outcome of yet another senseless shooting...with illegal firearms.  
You need to be in somebody's shoes..............., dodge an actual bullet and then come up with a solution.......sorry if we Philadelphians interrupted your afternoon nap.  We are too busy dodging bullets and going to funerals to know the difference! 
Thank you ..............City Hall and City Officials for what you tried to do!!!!   Make this city safe for law abiding citizens.

I am an Independent who just like those coveted super delegates is holding out to see...........well I didn't think I would see what I did see!!!
I have long admired Hillary Rodham Clinton.  I knew she was a forceful dynamic woman the kind that would be good in politics. Educated, politically  well seasoned (Just a little too much pepper).  I went into the beginning of the Primary with a fair watchful eye.  I wanted to hold off before committing.
It wasn't until she arrived at Pennsylvania that I got to see a more uglier side to this show.  Why would anyone who had a state sewn up like Pennsylvania want to spread rumors about Barack Obama and completely ignore John McCain?. Someone we should be looking at very carefully!!   I am.
 I went to a few political functions etc.  and there as an educated person I began to hear some awful things.....really bad things that no one should be spreading. I knew some of this smelled, what shocked me is the people who bought it.  
The press has been using the term uneducated blue collar workers, which is very tactful. Does that mean if you vote for Hillary you are stupid???  If your vote for Barack your smart? I did not like this at all.
Someone told us that Barack Obama would put all of us white people back into slavery and he would use the National Guard to do it.  What???  I heard it at two different polling places in two different counties.  I think we better look at the Constitution again folks?  I don't think anyone can do that anymore!!!!!!!!
Mr. Obama is a Muslim not a Christian and he will support terrorists. He just goes to a Christian church for a smoke screen.   What?  23 years is a long time to be faking it.
I then tuned into Mr. Obama's speech here in Philadelphia.  He was marvelous.  I liked him despite what I had been hearing.
I then began to notice the shrill, nasty insinuations directed at this man and have my doubts where they had been directed from.  No,, it couldn't be the Hillary camp?  No one would cut a fellow party member down like that!!!!!!
There is more, but........I think I have said enough.  It is not fair we were exposed to these lies.
Yesterday, when the vote decided Michigan and Florida would be participating in the Delegate Convention, I was glad, although those states had their hands slapped for a reason.  
Now, I have to hear  Hillary Democrats completely try to by-pass a process which could not have been easy for those committee members to decide and like spoiled children who did not get their way, throw a temper tantrum.I was completely ashamed of the way the Hillary supporters were rude and disrespectful to people who had the floor.  Speaking of rules, there is a process set up for these meetings and when the chair has to use the gavel, that is bad!!!
I have to listen to CNN and the press talk and pick and tear apart what was said until I want to upchuck.  I am a caring American citizen, but....this goes beyond what we need.......Enough Mr. Ickes  STOP......you and who you represent are way out of line.
We need a good, honest decent Man/woman to be our leader. One who does not spread lies, make deals, sell out and generally start wars that are not in our best interest.  This is not a high school locker room!! This is the future of our country and you are destroying the honesty of the process.  You cannot stack the votes....you cannot lie to people and spread rumors without someone noticing....and shame on you for hunting down the poor, disadvantaged uneducated to suit your purpose.  SHAME ON YOU!!!
The Republicans are jumping for joy Democrats!!!!  Breaking out the wine and cheese at the Country Club as we scratch our befuddled heads.   
We do not need someone who would go at great length to destroy a I USE THE TERM PARTY NOT PERSON that by all rights should WIN in the election.  What selfish.............self serving people you are!!!!
You ruined the election all for a win at all cost..........stupid, stupid!!!!!!!!!!!
Did you ever stop to think that it might be better to work together Democrats?  Duh?  Huh????.

I am completely freaked out.  Some chick racing down the street here in NORTEAST PHILLY, hit my parked car at 4:00 a.m. this morning.  She was going 85 miles an hour in a 25 mile zone, driving without a driver's permit in one of them gas guzzler ozone wreakers (pickup truck) which killed my little old car, almost hit my neighbor's house and ruined his lawn and  knocked down his garden fence, then left the scene without stopping, driving around my parked (obviously totaled) car and the dumbfounded people walking their dogs.  No one was killed.  I don't know how?

The police caught her!!!!  They were fantastic and efficient.

Police say she was sober!!!  Ok, what kind of person does this sober??  I thnk I would have felt a spark of understanding if under the influence, at least there was a reason.  Bad as that sounds.

I am mourning the loss of an old friend who got me to work on time, hauled stuff and helped me keep my business going!! 

Thanks Philadelphia Police for your professionalism.

For the last couple of months, I have been reading about the increasing terrorism that has hit many countries, killed many people and has interferred with daily routines, I suspect,  destroyed our world economy.  I can't help but think our involvement in Irag has triggered some of these attacks, but I also get the feeling from reading these articles, editorials etc. there is something more going on that is being witheld from the public. 

Our firepower and overall military presence does not seem to be causing any concern among these terrorists groups and it should.  Their intolerence of other religions is disprespectful, yet they demand total respect from others, or else we get blasted literally and figuratively.  I find this to be a source of concern to people like myself.  I am a peace lover, however, I don't beleive in allowing terrorists free reign. I am looking at people who have no fear of consquences of their actions toward humanity.  

Why hasn't Osama Bin Laden been captured?  This bothers me.  Does it make anyone else pause to think about this? What is so special about this particular group that allows them to slip past check points, ride airplanes, slip in and out of the United States without notice. We have caught some of the small fish, but not the big fish.  They are getting away.

Bottom line, are terrorists groups running the show?

 

I haven't felt  very safe here the last couple of months.  I have lived here for 23  years and think Philadelphia is not just the stopping point for I-95 travelers.  It has a culture and flavor of it's own.

   The slaughter that is going on both civilian and police has brought it to media attention, but this started  way before this year.  Drugs are a problem. The highways are congested with rude discourteous drivers (where did they come from)  it wasn't like this 20 years ago.  There is no place for our youth to go and do something constructive with their time.

Our schools are not concerned with what is happening to our children.  Our teenagers are being slaughtered, sometimes over something not worth dying for.

Today I read something disturbing.  I read about the accused killer's escape (alarming) and capture (thank God).  However, his family helped him get away and projected a lack of respect for society and the law, they out and out lied to police officers questioning them at first..  We cannot make our own rules-we just can't.  There is no justification for murder.  The sooner  we accept this the better.  Just because your angry doesn't give  ANYONE the right to settle a dispute with a gun, or obtain goods you want by brandishing a gun, or killing innocent people doing their business just because they are in your way.

There is no race card on this. There is no black, white, hispanic........  We are all as Philadelphians in this together.   Our young people have no way of sorting things out morally if we tell them it's OK to murder someone.

Our police have a really tough job to do and we are not helping them at all by casting the blame and race card at them.  Using guns should be a last resort, not a first resort, however, lately I don't think police have had much choice in the matter!