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TexasTowelie

(116,607 posts)
Wed Nov 10, 2021, 07:25 AM Nov 2021

Pennsylvania Senate backs bill to allow guns to be carried without permit

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s state Senate on Tuesday approved two veto-bound firearms bills, including one to allow people to carry a loaded gun openly or concealed, without a permit, and another to punish municipalities that impose firearms ordinances that are stricter than state law.

Despite a certain veto from Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, floor debate lasted nearly three hours, as Democrats warned that the result of such legislation becoming law would be more death and more violence amid already-spiking gun violence and the spread of illegal guns.

Republicans brushed aside the arguments, saying cities elsewhere with strict gun laws still have problems with gun violence and that law-abiding gun owners should not need the government’s permission to carry a firearm.

“This is about our Second Amendment and our right to bear arms,” said Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward, R-Westmoreland, during floor arguments. “The Second Amendment doesn’t say anything about restrictions on our right to bear arms.”

Read more: https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/pennsylvania-senate-backs-bill-to-allow-guns-to-be-carried-without-permit/
(Pittsburgh Tribune Review)

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Pennsylvania Senate backs bill to allow guns to be carried without permit (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2021 OP
we will eventually get rid of the 2a until then, expect more death from these psychos Blues Heron Nov 2021 #1
GQP is doctor death . .. Lovie777 Nov 2021 #2
This is sickening. femmocrat Nov 2021 #3
Will this bill also allow guns in the Capitol, Deminpenn Nov 2021 #4
It will all change when the Repukes get mowed down by the armed masses FakeNoose Nov 2021 #5

Lovie777

(14,942 posts)
2. GQP is doctor death . ..
Wed Nov 10, 2021, 07:34 AM
Nov 2021

Pandemic = doctor death

Death penalty = doctor death

Starving Americans = doctor death

Expensive Health Insurance = doctor death

and that names a few.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
3. This is sickening.
Wed Nov 10, 2021, 10:28 AM
Nov 2021

TG for Gov. Wolf. Every day there are so many shootings on the local news. We need some sanity!

FakeNoose

(35,575 posts)
5. It will all change when the Repukes get mowed down by the armed masses
Wed Nov 10, 2021, 02:00 PM
Nov 2021


That's when they'll become the party of "Law and Order."

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