PA gun control

The National Journal with a piece on the gun control issue in the upcoming PA primary.

Excerpt

Guns are an especially potent issue in Pennsylvania, which is home to 300,000 members of the National Rifle Association -- the highest per capita NRA membership in the country, according to Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action. A 2002 Quinnipiac University poll found that 42 percent of Pennsylvania households have guns, including 54 percent of union households, a key Democratic constituency.

Gun issues also stir up passions in Pennsylvania for another very different reason. Philadelphia has experienced an epidemic of gun killings: 331 people were shot to death last year, 321 with handguns.

I decided to do a little research on all these Philly murders; here's a map of all them.

Now here's a few trivia questions

1) How many of these 400 murders in Philadelphia were committed by NRA members?

2) How is it that Philadelphia had all these murders? It's a "progressive" city, not some rural hickville. Didn't anyone tell these murderers that democrats are a people of peace, love & empathy for their suffering brother?

3) If guns are the problem, how is it that all those hillbillies in western PA don't have a murder rate equal to that of Philly?

Once again, tell me how a city run by democrats is a more attractive alternative to a republican run suburb?