Ed Rendell talked about "one gun a month" for two full terms, but with Ed I always got the feeling that he was just paying lip service. He was good at that sort of thing. It should be "one gun a year," but the idea behind "one gun a month" is twofold: 1) stop someone loading up for a shooting spree, and 2) hunters and recreational shooters, of which this state is absolutely full, will tend to "binge buy," but limiting it to one a month is minutia, I think. I would take it, though.
Good to see the state coming around on gay marriage, and I think it is. Your rural religious (Protestant and Catholic rural folks are VERY conservative) people will be the main opposition. They think the Ten Commandments are the basis for the Constitution and stuff like that. But Pittsburgh and the eastern part of the state will be more accepting of gay marriage by far.
I believe it was James Carville who once described Pennsylvania as "Pittsburgh on one end, Philadelphia on the other, and Alabama in the middle."
