Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. George Orwell
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Delco Council Virtue Signals On Spooky Ghostly Guns. Boo — A first reading of an ordinance to ban the unlicensed manufacture and modifications of firearms was made by Delaware County (Pa) Council, March 19.
Especially noted was the use of 3-D printers to make guns.
This is virtue signalling by stupid people looking for an excuse to ignore problems.
How many of these printed guns have been used in crime in Delco? Anywhere?
In 1960, there were more than three times as many people incarcerated in mental facilities as penal institutions. Forty years later it was six times as many in prisons. Were are confident it is much higher now.
That is maybe the biggest reason for the explosion of irrational random shootings. That and cultural changes such as excusing killing for convenience and the inability to teach the reality of a God who commands us to love our neighbor.
What County Council did was virtue signalling. It’s meaningless to public safety. It did, however, manage to create an annoyance for hobbyists and tinkerers who are among the most law-abiding of citizens.
What is also an annoyance are those who seek political careers in the freedom coalition but mouth support for this pandering garbage.
The stupidity was compounded by a crowing statement dissing the fellow’s supporters followed by a mocking meme.
We’ll further note that we like Delco’s GOP leadership. We think Chairman Frank Agovino, Dave Galluch, Michael Straw and Rob Jordan are decent guys despite the attacks on them. We are convinced that they are honest and mean well.
The buck stops with the leadership, though, which means the division is the leadership’s fault.
We encourage Delco’s Republican leaders to reach out quickly to the other side. Start with Leah Hoopes and Greg Stenstrom.
Leah and Greg have legitimate grievances with the Delco GOP. They were abandoned when they spoke out in 2020 after the presidential election which caused them tremendous personal suffering.
We also suspect they will mistrust any peace offering. We are convinced, however, they will listen to reason as their goals are sincere and anything but mercenary.
The GOP bosses don’t have to concede every one of their points, either. They must, however, concede that they have points.
Really, Frank, when the Dems tried to change the law to pack the Election Board, don’t ya kinda think it was maybe even just a little red flag?
And why haven’t you made an issue of the Democrat-controlled council’s unwillingness to accept rulings by the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records to release certain election records?
Making that an issue would flip the “election denier” argument right back on them.
Why aren’t they trying to stop the widespread skepticism, after all?
Citizen Activism Protects Busway — SEPTA is hard at work its the long-neglected Hathaway Lane busway in Ardmore and we accept a nice chunk of credit for the authority getting off its tail and going to work.
Well done, Sharon Devaney.
As work progressed, however, a new and deep pothole was found by Ellen Segal DiStefano. She told a SEPTA worker who responded that it was a township problem.
So she called Haverford Township who told her it was a SEPTA problem.
She persisted, however. She contacted elected officials and wrote about it on Facebook’s South Ardmore Business Alliance.