Philadelphia’s Soros DA Larry Krasner Sues GLOCK While Letting Gang Members Run Wild

Larry Krasner, one of Team Soros’ star “progressive” prosecutors, has delivered a masterpiece in deflection. Did you miss that the city of Philadelphia and its DA have file suit against the street gangs that run wild in the City of Brotherly Love? Don’t worry, you didn’t miss that news because it didn’t happen. Instead, they’re suing GLOCK, claiming that the company “substantially contributes” to the gun crime in the City of Brotherly Love via “deceptive marketing” that allegedly makes illegal auto-sears (“GLOCK switches”) seem like more fun.

We all know the problem here is gang violence, not “gun violence.” But to political hacks like Larry Krasner, he prefers to use the politically useful term “gun violence” because it puts the blame on the guns, not the thugs who are shooting up the place.

Likewise, nothing screams “I’m fixing gang violence” like some courtroom drama against a gunmaker that doesn’t even sell the illegal parts that are the problem here. But that’s what we’ve come to expect from a Team Soros prosecutor who doesn’t believe in the right of armed self-defense at all, much less the right of the little people to own the tools to make that happen.

Krasner’s suit gripes that a video posted to GLOCK’s social media shows a rep mag-dumping with one trigger pull—caption: “The only thing more fun than a Glock is a full-auto Glock.”  They tie this to a deadly Grays Ferry block-party shooting last year, where three died from a switched GLOCK.

Philly officials, unable and/or unwilling to deal with the crime problem in their city, clutch pearls over an obscure video making conversions look cool while letting the black market flourish. If Philly’s public schools are anything like most big city government schools, there’s not much worry about there. Gang bangers can’t read past the first grade level, if that. But that doesn’t stop Mayor Cherelle Parker proclaiming that GLOCK prioritizes “profit over safety,” while Giffords’ Adam Skaggs scolds the company for not condemning banned switches as “illegal and deadly.”

Meanwhile, Krasner virtue-signals against “Big Gun.” His soft-on-crime record—low bail, declined prosecutions, light sentences, probation over jail—helped turn Philly into a crime hotspot for years. Under his watch, murders spiked to over 500 before finally dropping. Now he brags it’s the “lowest in 60 years” as the city benefits from the nation-wide drop in violent crime. Yet instead of aggressively prosecuting the criminals who turn pistols into machine guns, which is hard, he sues the manufacturer which is easier and makes for better headlines.

This isn’t justice, it’s performance art. Scapegoat law-abiding gun owners and a gun company for crimes committed by repeat offenders Krasner’s own policies have let skate. If Philly wants less bloodshed, start with the trigger-pullers, not the trigger-advertisers.

Fox29 has more about Krasner’s lawsuit:

The City of Philadelphia and District Attorney Larry Krasner have sued gun maker Glock, claiming that the company has “substantially contributed to the gun violence epidemic,” in both the city and the state.

The lawsuit alleges that Glock has used “deceptive marketing” to promote the use of switches, small devices that make a semi-automatic handgun fully automatic. With switches, according to city officials, the guns can fire up to 1,200 rounds per minute.

The lawsuit seeks civil penalties and a court order to stop what it called Glock’s “predatory and misleading marketing practices.”