Posted on 06/04/2018 4:20:00 AM PDT by SMGFan
. By Bonnie Watson Coleman and William Castner
Today is national Gun Violence Awareness Day.
In New Jersey alone, roughly 1500 of our residents are shot each year and 270 killed by guns. This is a public health epidemic. And the infuriating part is Congress, with their collective heads in the sand, is completely indifferent to this crisis.
In stark contrast to Washington, Gov. Phil Murphy in his first 100 days alone has already elevated gun violence to be a paramount issue as he promised to do when he ran for office. The Governor has launched a historic multi-state States for Gun Safety initiative to curb gun trafficking; rolled back dangerous Christie administration regulations liberalizing concealed carry permits; placed $2 million in his budget for gun violence research; authored a "name and shame" executive order to expose the states exporting crime guns to our streets; and pledged to sign into law an important six-bill legislative package being advanced by majority leaders Loretta Weinberg and Louis Greenwald that includes a magazine clip limit.
Separate and apart from additional state legislation, there is even more we can do:
* First, in order to get new federal laws, we need a new Congress; * Second, New Jersey needs to bring aggressive civil lawsuits against unscrupulous members of the gun industry placing our residents in harm's way; * Third, because taxpayers are the top purchasers of firearms through our law enforcement agencies, New Jersey should examine using its market power to encourage gun manufacturers to adopt more responsible behavior including childproof technology; * Fourth, New Jersey should also engage the business community and examine any public relationships with businesses, like financial institutions, that are directly or indirectly supporting the gun industry; and
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Sadly most Democrats think this way. Fewer would be elected in certain districts if they wrote this.
This woman will be reelected for years.
It’s time for gun makers to refuse to do business with law enforcement agencies in blue states.
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Move to a Free State while there still are a few.
I still believe that if any issue can instigate another civil war, it’s this one.
Might have missed it, but have we read calls to increase punishment for criminals who use guns in crime. Require mandatory sentencing? /s
Yep.
Keep all them eeeeeevill gun things out of the hands of the honest people.
That’ll fix durn EVERYTHING. (Magical thinking.)
If only there was some way we could get the criminal element to follow even the simplest gun laws...
“It’s time for gun makers to refuse to do business with law enforcement agencies in blue states.”
It’s getting down to Free States and Slave States.
And gun manufactures should refuse to sell to law enforcement in slave states.
It’s a good thing we have become immune to drunk driving deaths or they would outlaw cars.
Keep blaming guns and the problems will never be solved. They won’t address broken families, drugs, and gangs because that might upset their voter base.
If I were running there against a Dem I’d point that out big time.
The criminal element in JC, Newark, Camden etc are the gun problem which these Democrats do not want to punish . Many of those killed are premeditated killings. The gunman was looking for the victim and took them out.
When they are in power in states , why don’t they keep increasing punishment for criminals?
Many of their voting base are useful idiots. The others are afraid to lose their Obama phone etc which Democrats give them.
And also clueless products of education system.
Says who?
” blame the gun”
Amoral dysfunctional angry mental feral people without guns will find other ways to kill and maim like knives , running people down and even acid - like London
Then I suppose the drum beat of “ racism” as a cause will increase
I wonder if anyone has done a forensic socio-psycho study to determine the real pathology
Yeah... Ban guns... Then your towns would be as safe as London... Oh wait... Better ban sharp pointy things too...
and how many were killed and hurt by cars in NJ?
Congresscritter: here is something you can do, drop dead.
What is a “crime gun”?
Where we live in Warren County, N.J. we hear gunfire every day from residents shooting on their private property. Most of us own legal firearms and there are very few “crime guns”. This area is about as safe as you can get.
Clearly the writer is smoking crystal meth. It is easier to get a carry permit in NYC than it is to get a NJ carry permit. Here is an alleged testimonial from a NJ carry permit holder of the process he endured.. This person got the permit, but this is hardly a "liberalized" process. It sounds like more effort than contesting a speeding ticket.
In most states you aren't treated like a criminal when going through the carry permit process. Small wonder NJ residents flee to PA.
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