Posted on 02/23/2005 4:56:27 PM PST by Coleus
I mourn for the state in which I was raised.
NJ is a cesspit for all of the liberal scum from NYC who couldn't stand the crime, lousy schools and high taxes that they voted for there, so they left and came to NJ. Problem is that they brought their liberal outlook and voting patterns, and have successfully turned the NJ where I grew up into a somewhat greener version of NYC...in other words, NJ is now the PRNJ. I miss many things about it, and many people there, but I'm glad to be gone. Things like this, and people like that nanny-state worshipper Adler, only reinforce this view.
Ain't it ironic that the liberal buttwipes that insist that the 2nd Amendment only protects muskets from the Revolutionary War era are now proposing to outlaw the exact same weapons. Gosh, 2 or 3 shots a minute must be too much.
In the PRNJ? Somewhere in between never and the moment at which the sky is darkened by flocks of flying pigs.
I miss the hot dogs at the Texas Grill on Lexington Ave. in Clifton, and a place called Taylor's Meat Pies (which probably doesn't even exist anymore). That's about it. Don't miss digging my car out of the driveway at 5:00 in the morning after the snowplow plowed it in. Don't miss the moronic gun laws. Now, with a CCW, I can cash and carry even a handgun without a waiting period.
I miss Federici's in Freehold - the best pizza in the world, bar none. I miss Thomas Sweet's ice cream (Princeton and New Brunswick), good deli, good Italian and good Chinese food, plus being near a bunch of friends and family. I miss the familiarity of the place where I lived for 39 of my 44 years.
But I do NOT miss the gun laws, high taxes, clearing the snow and/or ice off of my car on a bitter cold morning or dealing with horrendous traffic. Regarding the gun laws, I remember leaving NJ with my wife on the way to Texas. After passing the "Welcome to Delaware" sign on the DMB, I turned to her and said, "Now you won't have to bail me out of jail anymore." I got the bug-eyed, slack-jawed look that I wanted, as well as the chance to explain about NJ's absurd "assault weapon" and "high capacity magazine" ban. The problem I had was with the magazines. When my wife asked me how many I had, I told her, "oh, about 200 years in Rahway worth." More bug-eyes. Then she asked me, "Do they have laws like that in Texas?" I replied, "No, Texas is part of the United States of America."
I enjoy - and appreciate - my freedom. I now carry whenever and pretty much wherever I'd like (including into my synogogue - I can only imagine how the ultra-liberal, gun-fearing Jews of NJ would react); I, too, can buy any handgun I can afford at a moments notice by flashing the CHL; I have a C&R license, so (unlike NJ) I can get older rifles and pistols delivered to my front door; and I can own however many magazines of whatever size I like to without worrying about going to jail. Oh, and when my kids are old enough, I will thoroughly enjoy teaching them about guns and going shooting with them. Unlike in NJ, I can do that without some hoplophobic, statist busibody calling Child Protective Service about "this guy threatening children with a machine gun."
When will the rats figure it out that gun control is a losing issue with them. >>
Maybe howard dean will change their minds.
Last one of you fellows out, please bring the flag.
J/K
Seriously though, have you checked out the NJCSD?
Second Amendment rights group with a focus on RKBA for self defense rather than sporting uses.
http://www.njcsd.org/
I agree. Who needs a .50 caliber rifle or handgun. That's just crazy. And that .45? It's been killing millions of people for the last 100 years. I think it's time for that to go. I don't really agree, but I can understand why they'd want to get rid of it.
Come to think of it, the .357, WOW! if ever there was a gun designed to kill people, that was it. So if they want that one to go, I'd go along with that one too. Not, that I'd like it, but I'd understand.
Do I need to go further?
Do I need a sarcasm tag? When they ban one, they then come for the next one. They don't stop. Don't let their nose in the tent. Don't give 'em an inch, because you know they want the whole mile.
Screw these b@#$$#^s. It's time for them to get a lesson in why we have a 2nd Amendment.
Wow. You really missed the point of my post. Completely.
They don't call it Nazi Jersey for nothing.
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