Only the Pennsylvania General Assembly can pass tough gun-control legislation, but that didn't stop two City Council members yesterday from introducing bills aimed at the horror of gun violence.
Council's past attempt to control assault weapons, for example, failed because the courts ruled that only the state has the power to legislate firearms laws.
With images of shell casings on the sidewalk and a third-grader felled by an errant bullet reverberating through City Hall, Councilman Darrell Clarke said he hopes the bills that he and Donna Miller introduced yesterday will light a fire under the Legislature.
'I feel the state has found the need to get involved with a substantial amount of local issues and I'm hoping they'll see the need to get involved in this,' Clarke said.
But he may have a long wait.
Kate Philips, Gov. Rendell's spokeswoman, said the governor has no plans for any kind of handgun-control legislation in the near future.
And House Speaker John Perzel's spokeswoman said that while Perzel is concerned about keeping children safe in schools and their neighborhoods, he isn't pushing any new legislation
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