Panto Appears in Gun Violence PSA
Easton mayor one of several speaking against illegal guns in ad featured on CNN Wednesday.
Easton Mayor Sal Panto is one of several heads of U.S. cities featured in a new public service ad calling on Congress to help end gun violence
The ad—featured in a CNN story Wednesday morning—was created by Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
It shows a group of mayors—including Panto, Ed Pawlowski of Allentown and Michael Nutter of Philadelphia—asking legislators to require background checks for all gun sales, take military-style assault weapons and high capacity magazines off the streets and to make gun trafficking a federal crime.
(Panto appears twice in the 86-second clip: first at 17 seconds in and again at the 34-second mark.)
"I support the rights of the Second Amendment," he says at one point.
Last year, the mayor—along with several of his local counterparts—signed a petition asking for many of the same things argued for in the PSA.
Andy Novick
2:30 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Very important to understand...most of these mayors are OK with guns used for what they were made for...target practice, fair hunting, self protection of yourself and property....http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theaudioblog/2013/03/12/the-bonnie-and-clyde-show
Ronnie DelBacco
7:12 am on Thursday, March 21, 2013
I don't think Mayor Panto and the MAIG crew realize that passage of any such bill pushes us further down the slippery slope to gun confiscation.
I don't buy any of the liberal talking points that "they support 2nd Amendment rights" when they push so hard for control of law abiding citizens gun rights and do nothing to address the real problem of CRIME control, and mental illness.
NO universal background checks! They will NOT stop criminals and the mentally ill from getting guns if they want them. This group and their "meaningful infringements" will only further hinder law abiding citizens from being able to defend themselves against a tyrannical government...oh yeah, and criminals.
Jimmy Madden
9:28 am on Thursday, March 21, 2013
I applaud all the mayors who took part in the video. I love the how the video ended with Mayor Bloomberg. I am very proud that our Mayor of Easton Sal Panto was apart of this. Anybody else pleased with Mayor Panto's cameo?
Mike Ciasulli
10:07 am on Thursday, March 21, 2013
Mike Ciasulli
5 minutes ago
Not pleased at all. Where is the viable plan to deter the criminal? When are they going to address the criminal with weapons. When are they going to stop thinking of punishing the honest law abiding citizen for what the criminal is doing? This grandstanding for political gain and favor at the cost of the honest mans ability to affordably defend himself is total nonsense. Don't buy into it.
Jack
1:01 pm on Thursday, March 21, 2013
Anyone who sides with Bloomberg is nine cents short of a dime. Maybe Panto should go back and work for Chrin. Political power seems to be going to his head.
Mike has hit the nail on the head. Punish all the good people for political gain.
dean
10:59 am on Thursday, March 21, 2013
Panto recently wanted to use a gun (government) to steal someone's parking lot.
Amend Wun
7:25 pm on Thursday, March 21, 2013
How do universal background checks hinder law abiding citizens?
Ronnie DelBacco
8:08 am on Friday, March 22, 2013
Permits are issued at the county level. Unless the federal government is going to allow interstate concealed carry as a result of universal background checks, then they have NO business instituting universal checks...It's another clear "infringement" of our second amendment rights and pushes us farther onto that slippery slope towards confiscation.
Tom C
4:09 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
How do they hinder law abiding citizens? Well it’s a major hindrance when I have to spend 2 hours and $75 at a gun shop just to give my own son a gun that he is legally allowed to own.
But that’s not the worse part. The dirty little secret that they don’t tell you is I have to complete a transfer form for that “favorite duck gun” that I’m giving him. Currently, 90% of firearm transfers are documented, but that not’s good enough. My paranoid federal government wants a record of everything I have.
Why? Well, when they come to confiscate, and confiscate they will, they need to know exactly who has what. The government thugs who themselves have been militarized won’t leave my house until they get every last one.
And these regulations will have no effect on mass murderers. So at some point, they will say “Regulations didn’t work. Registration didn’t work. We must now confiscate.” That is the plan: regulation, registration, confiscation. This is what tyrants do. It is a matter of historical fact.
That’s what’s wrong with Universal Background checks. . . the truth that they are hiding from you.
Tom C
3:10 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
Panto and the other mayors are lying to you. Their plans are to confiscate all guns, period. They'll do it a little a time, piece-by-piece. They cry about gun violence, but they let criminals rule the streets and at the same time, infringe on the rights of law abiding citizens.
90% of the recorded gun violence is gang-violence. Lock those people up and keep them behind bars instead of letting them go where they are free to commit crimes again.
Psychopaths live among us. Armed citizens protect themselves and society from dangerous people and from a government that decides to enslave its own people.
Tom Adams
4:34 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
Your coments Tom C are so rediculous. I believe it is clear that the vast majority of Americans favor better background checks and owners to report lost or stolen guns. This is simple common sense. It has nothing to do with confiscating all weapons. I applaud our mayor and the other mayors for taking on the leadership of the NRA because it's the leadership not the members...........I heard Panto make a relaly good remark --- the NRA no longer is a lobbying group for their members they are a lobbying group for the gun manufacturers. HMMMM?
Tom C
5:57 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
You keep drinking the Kool-Aid. *You* believe that Americans favor better background checks? Are you telling me that is a fact? We'll you can't, because it's not. Every handgun sold in this country must go through a Federal Firearms Licensed (FFL) dealer. Since 1938, every long-gun that crosses a State line must as well. Every one of those buyers is required to have a background check performed. So just how will this stupid democrat idea that solves nothing keep our children safer? It won't.
If you fear guns, don't buy one. But, don't stop me from protecting myself and my family with every means possible in accordance with my God-given right to do so. Maybe you should consider moving across the river where the gun laws are prohibitive and more women are raped because they can't protect themselves.
Ronnie DelBacco
8:28 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
To Tom Adams,
The NRS was founded by 2 Union Generals to reinforce our second amendment rights. They were not lobyists.
As for "Panto making a really good remark", that statement itself is a laughable oxymoron.
Ronnie DelBacco
8:28 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
...NRA, typo, oops.