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Philadelphia mayor cannot answer how ‘common-sense gun laws’ stop city’s murders

By Christopher Tremoglie
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Philadelphia mayor cannot answer how ‘common-sense gun laws’ stop city’s murders

Last year, Philadelphia had 499 homicides. The city topped 400 homicides for this year on Sept. 27. A week later, a man shot and killed an employee of Jefferson Hospital inside the hospital. The city is on its way to shattering its previous record of 500 homicides, set in 1990.

Philadelphia is riding a murder wave. So what is Mayor Jim Kenney’s response to all this?

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