Staffers with the city’s Community Crisis Intervention Program will be poised to respond to potentially violent conflicts in an effort to prevent shootings.
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Gov. Tom Wolf joins state Sen. Anthony Williams (right) and other state and local leaders to coordinate efforts to reduce gun violence. The group met at the West Philadelphia YMCA for about an hour before talking to the media. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf met Friday with lawmakers and law enforcement officials to discuss gun violence in the state and what can be done to quell it, especially in Philadelphia, where the epidemic is putting the city on pace to set a new single-year record for homicides.
During a news conference in West Philadelphia, officials pitched the roundtable meeting as the start of a dialogue on this issue involving state and city officials who don’t always have the opportunity to work collaboratively. State Sen. Anthony Williams, who organized the discussion, said he envisions the creation of an intergovernmental task force that would discuss ways to reduce gun violence in the state in the communities that are most impacted by the
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PITTSBURGH – The Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police is seeking to dismiss litigation from a trio of young gun owners and a pair of non-profit firearms rights organizations arguing state laws have violated their Second Amendment rights, for failure to state a claim.
Madison M. Lara of Verona, Sophia Knepley of Denver, Logan D. Miller of Boyertown, the Second Amendment Foundation of Bellevue, Wash. and the Firearms Policy Coalition of Sacramento, Calif., initially filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Oct. 16 versus Col. Robert Evanchick, of Harrisburg.
The lawsuit asked that Pennsylvania’s state statutes preventing anyone below the age of 21 from obtaining a license to carry a firearm be decl,ared unconstitutional under the 2nd and 14th Amendments, believing it discriminates against lawful firearms owners in the age range of 18-20 years old.