On the ground, Citizen, and don't give me any crap about the law.

Jeff  Soyer at Alphecca.com has the word on repeal of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in the city of Philadelphia. The process was quite efficient. It did not require the untidy business of lawyers, courts, legislatures, or even rational thought. All it took was a few senior cops deciding to make it difficult to impossible for a  citizen to carry arms openly. Never mind that open carry is legal  those parts.

Philadelphia cops pointed a gun at the citizen's chest, ordered him to his knees, and held him for 45 minutes before reluctantly letting him go on the trivial grounds that he had committed no crime. But in part because they found a small recorder when they searched him, they decided to cite him for disorderly conduct and reckless endangerment, and he's scheduled to go to trial on that charge this summer. None dare call it harassment.

The root of this incident was a set of cops who hadn't the faintest notion about what the law actually said. It isn't  the first time police have decided to enforce what they think the law should be.