My take was that the first article was spun so that PHL residents would know who to blame* when their initiative crashed and burned around them.

*That would be us, of course, the honorable gun owners.

And the second article bleats the tired, classic bleat: Gun control doesn't work because the _other_ jurisdiction is lax!

I see the culture wars cranking up.....another notch! From the article: 'Criminals...are much more cautious when they know their victim could be armed.' The liberal big city mayors,catch-and-release judges and all their sociology major friends WANT us to be crime victims. They have got to be hating life about now.