PA-Franklin & Marshall: Voters support gun control & gay marriage, but not weed

[DemPGH]

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.

[DemPGH]

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."

Ha! A buddy of mine calls it Pennsylbama. Nice folks and all with a flair for the southern hospitality thing as well, but it is conservative!

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,"

How many times in the last 50 years has number 1 happened?  and I don't see how number 2 is a problem at all.

Thank you for answering the question.

Sure thing. As to how often #1 has happened, it's chiefly precautionary because people load up on guns somewhere! Why make it easier? And a lot of people are not going to bother to go to the bad part of town to buy an Uzi for a premeditated spree, IMO. #2 is a problem because there are gun nuts who are reckless with them, simply.