Charles Ramsey, Second Amendment denier

Charles Ramsey, former Chief of Police in the gun-banning city of Washington, DC, assumed a new job of the same level in Philadelphia, PA this January, just as his dismal record of denying the Constitution was about to trumpeted in Heller vs. DC before the Supreme Court of the United States.

So he goes to Philadelphia, where there exists a horrible homicide record, as the PPD seems to have no handle at all on gang crime in that city, especially in it's northern districts. Ramsey's answer, of course, was to take the strict PA gun laws and turn them into DC-style gun bans, and he got together with the similar-minded Mayor Michael Nutter and has a set of draconian laws put together as City Ordinances that would totally gut the Second Amendment there.

Only one problem arose.

It was all unconstitutional on it's face, as the State of Pennsylvania reserves the right to itself to make all gun law. This pre-emption of cities' gun-banning authority has proven to be the bane of gun banners nationwide.

OK, so Chief Ramsey is a smart guy, it says here. When several Legislators and the Attorney General told him and Nutter informally that they couldn't write and enforce such laws, you would have thought they might have listened.

But no, they not only didn't listen then, they didn't listen when legislators denounced their illegal actions from the Speaker's podium in the State Capitol.

In fact, they not only didn't listen, the Mayor rammed the Ordinances through as emergency laws, and the Chief said his forces would begin to enforce them by arrest the minute they had been promulgated in emergency fashion.

The City was sued in Federal Court, and was enjoined to prevent the ordinances from going into effect. The same injunction also forbids the Chief from enforcing any City gun laws not approved by the Legislature, and even forbids the Chief from writing police procedures to enforce such improper law.

Now THAT'S a slap in the face. Not only did the Federal Judge tell the Chief he couldn't arrest anyone on the phony laws, the court told the Chief he couldn't even plan or prepare to arrest anyone on such phony laws.

Then, to add insult to the injury of being bashed with the Cluebat of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, the Philly District Attorney, a liberal herself, said she would not issue any criminal complaints on the ordinances pending their COMPLETE legal resolution.

It IS interesting that the MSM all parroted that all the opposition to this set of un-Constitutional fiats came from the NRA, when in fact, it came first from the Pennsylvania Legislature, performing it's proper role of defending it's own Constitution. The NRA's role was limited to carrying the lawsuit to court, because as a private intervenor, it could do that much faster than the Legislature could, since various interpretations of State's rights vs. Federal authority have resulted in cumbersome legal obstacles to be overcome prior to decisions. None of the three MSM articles I read had ANY mention of the role of the Legislature, only that of the NRA. Check it for yourself. Google "Philadelphia gun laws banned".

The upshot of all this might get lost in the fray. The best lesson to be obtained here is that a couple of Constitution-be-damned wheeler-dealer politicians tried to blame the serious failures of their respective administrations on inanimate objects, guns, instead of the very real people, criminals, who are causing the problems. It is the failure to deal with crime in Philadelphia that should be highlighted here, as well as the failure of the two slimy politicians and their attempt to hide their own personal failures by trashing two Constitutions.

My guess is, though, that the National Rifle Association will once again fail to take this pointed, but very real view, and settle for the kudos for their role in protecting the ownership of the firearms involved.

It is precisely the NRA's failure to take the full measure of vanquished enemies that has allowed New Orleans' chief gun-grabber Eddie Compass to remain untouched for trashing the Second Amendment during and after Hurricane Katrina in NOLA.

Defending the Constitution from treasonous usurpers is a life-or-death matter, but the NRA treats it instead like some sort of gentleman's game with a hardwood court, rule book and referees, with fouls to give and/or a penalty box.

This battlefield is very real, and if the battle is NOT won there AND the foe not TOTALLY vanquished, the war WILL be lost in the longer run and we will all be enslaved.

We gave you the thumbs-down signal, NRA. Muster the grit to walk these two to the prison gates and see them put away. If you can't summon the stomach for properly ending the fight, give way to those who have such determination.

I know for a fact that if the leaders of the GOA were doing this work, Mayor Nutter and Chief Ramsey would be raising bail money by now.

Comments

[Rivrdog]

It occurred to me as I admired my handiwork, that maybe I didn't do such a good job on the title.

I wanted anyone google-searching Charles Ramsey to see my article, but it might better have been entitled,

"NRA; quick shield, dull sword"