New Jersey's Most Vulnerable Citizens Are Being Used by the Gun Ban Lobby

NJCSD.org ^ | Wednesday, 22 March 2006 | Robert Rose

[Fun Bob]

New Jersey has recently become the darling of the anti-gun lobby. After numerous crushing defeats at the federal level, they have refocused their efforts at enacting gun control at the state lobby. Their current rallying cry is that NJ gun violence is high because other states are lacking NJ's level of absolute, totalitarian gun control and base their laws on the assumption that responsible, law-abiding citizens deserve their natural rights and liberties. NJ would be A-OK; their twisted logic goes, if every other state enacted NJ levels of gun control. It would put an end to gang violence and the actions of criminals they say.

But are guns really the cause of gang violence? Or is it that the state of New Jersey's ongoing abandonment of the underprivileged children of our cities continues to foster a culture of hopelessness that leads urban youth into gangs and violence?

[B4Ranch]

>>But are guns really the cause of gang violence?<<

Naw, just another way of not getting kicked in the head.

[Gefreiter]

FB,
"NJ would be A-OK; their twisted logic goes, if every other state enacted NJ levels of gun control."

You might be interested to know that MA, and Boston in particular, does precisely the same thing. If only NH and VT and ME would stop selling guns, the world would be a better place.

Doesn't really matter when a criminal is shooting an illegal gun of course. Or, more likely, trying to hack you up with a machete.

[lowbridge]

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[leo468]

New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont are not the problem, states like NJ are the problem they make their citizens targets for criminal. Gun Laws are a joke to criminals the more the better, only affects people that obey them. Don't blame the gun blame the person for their actions. I bet Gefreiter never fired a firearm in their life. There are over 20,000 gun laws on the books, has any of them make any big difference? No! If a neighbor got hit by a drunk driver with a car like the one you own or any innocent person, how would you or they feel if the neighbor took you to court and the Police arrested you, saying since you own such a vehicle you must be responsible for the drunk driving accident, and you wind up in jail and held liable in civil case? Like a car any firearm or any device can be used for good or bad. Think what else can be used to hurt someone, shouldn't they also be banned? Blame the person and not the device. Anyone who hurts someone without just cause should be sentenced to the fullest extent of the Laws.

[leo468]

I do feel compassion for anyone who has been hurt or killed regardless if it was caused by a criminal or reckless behavior regardless of how it happened. Drugs and gangs are mostly to blame. Have lost a friend to gun violence in 1998 who was trying to break up a fight and was shot in the liver and died in Boston. I blame the person and not the device. I have a LTC in New Hampshire and used to have one in Massachusetts when I was an arm guard. Have never had to use it to protect myself or others. Have fired more then 300,000 rounds in my life without incident. You only hear the negative news, rarely do you hear the positive news, why? Because negative news sells. Don't believe in everything you read or see in the news. States with the toughest gun laws have the highest crimes because criminal know only they will have firearms. Ask a convicted felony if they would rather go to a state with less gun restrictions or more restriction, guess what the answer will be? Well in most cases.

[Gondring]

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[Gefreiter]

leo468,
When I wrote, "If only NH and VT and ME would stop selling guns, the world would be a better place" it was sarcasm.

I apologize if it wasn't as obvious as I thought.