The district attorney of Philadelphia didn't hold back during a Tuesday press conference after another mass shooting in America.
Five people were killed, and two were injured on Monday in his city, leading to anger and frustration. It has become an emotion seen in many cities nationwide that experience mass shootings. Over and over, local lawmakers move from begging for help to demanding action.
It was just two days ago that Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott explained how the local and state officials need help from the feds.
"You're talking about a country where it's easier for a 14-year-old kid to order pieces together, to put a gun together and go out and use it and commit a crime than it is for me to get Claritin D from CVS. That's what we should be talking about every day in this country until those folks take action, because I could stand up here and talk about back-and-forth stuff that they like to do with partisan politics when they say, 'Oh, the violence is happening in Democrat-led cities,' or, 'The guns are coming from Republican-led states.' But who cares? People are dying in Baltimore and the United States, and that's what should matter and that's what we should be acting on every day," Scott said, according to WBALTV.
Such was the case with Larry Krasner on Tuesday afternoon.
"Finally, I just want to say this: it is disgusting, the lack of proper gun legislation that we have in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania," Krasner began. "It is disgusting that you can go to New Jersey and find a whole list of reasonable gun regulation that we don't have, that you can go to Delaware, and there's almost as long a list of reasonable gun legislation that we don't have."
“It’s time for everybody in our legislature—including the ones who walk around with an AR15 lapel pin—to face the voters…if they're not going to do something, then voters have to vote them out," he told the press.
“That lapel pin means I am against you. I am against your safety. And I can tell you a lot of us have had enough of it," he continued.
The alleged gunman in Philly was 40-years-old, wearing a ballistic vest, and had an "AR-type rifle," with multiple magazines.
See the clip of Krasner in the video below or at the link here.
Philidelphia DA goes after legislators wearing 'AR-15 lapel pins' after latest mass shootingyoutu.be
