City Politicos destroy 77 year old Holmesburg Group.. After all, shooters are second class citizens.

There was an excellent but sad article in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the City of Philadelphia ending the lease of the Holmesburg Fish and Game Club. The club has been in existance for 77 years.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20070914_Final_rounds_for_durable_gun_club_.html

or,
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/
20070914_Final_rounds_for_durable_gun_club_.html

if the first link doesn't work.

Supposedly the prison guards need a larger range to train. The lease will end on December 31st of this year.

Over the past decade or so, Holmesburg has shared it's facilites with the prison guards and other police. The range facilities were built by and funded by the members. Now the city is throwing them out and taking over.

"Corrections officers already use the club's ranges several days a week, and association members said they did not see why the prison system needed a 24/7 facility along with the costs of its upkeep."

Many of the members are third generation. The club is active in the community with training programs and youth programs. They have been sharing the facility for the past several years. This doesn't mean anything to prison commissioner Leon King who offered a laundry list of lame excuses for the grab.

Here are just a few random thoughts

• You really can't trust government to play fair. If they lust after something you worked to build, they will simply use the power of government to take it.
• If you are on the wrong side of the political correctness fence, liberals who preach diversity and tolerance will show neither to you. Can you imagine the outrage if the city did the same thing to a gay or minority oriented club ?

One final question that should be asked of the illustrious Mayor Street and Commisioner King.. Are you telling us that the prisons are so full, and so difficult to control, that you need to confiscate a range that was used by over 1500 people for the use of the Philadelphia prison guards? Maybe the answer is on the Mayor's Blackberry. .....