The scene: Pennsylvania Supreme Court
The players: City of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, mayor vs. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, General Assembly.
The issue: local control of gun regulations.
Young Philly Politics provides some commentary and reaction.
Although I think that such laws, especially the one that would limit gun sales to one-per-month in within city limits, will make little difference unless they are enacted at the state level, we are at a point where we should be willing to try anything.
But what happens if these laws are actually put in place and the number of shootings doesn't change? Sometimes I think that elected officials on both sides of this debate prefer that it doesn't get resolved either way so they can continue to campaign on it. The biggest fear for all of them is that these laws are finally passed. Proponents of the law fear that if they win, nothing would change. Gun supporters fear that these laws would actually work (edited to add) and they'd find out that people and guns actually do kill people faster than people and knives or fists kill people.