Court Opinion

ID: 9747395
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 15:13:40.231999+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:23.461918
License: Public Domain

NIGRO, Justice,
dissenting.
I cannot agree with the Majority and therefore must respectfully dissent. In my opinion, whenever the state legislature fails to enact a statute to address a continuing problem of major concern to the citizens of the Commonwealth, a municipality should be entitled to enact its own local ordinance in order to provide for the public safety, health and welfare of its citizens.
Since Philadelphia County is besieged by a multitude of violent crimes which occur involving a variety of hand guns and automatic weapons it is fundamentally essential that the local government enact legislation to protect its citizens whenever the state legislature is unable or unwilling to do so.