Posted on 12/26/2012 10:12:09 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
TRENTON — In the wake of the massacre of 20 Connecticut schoolchildren, New Jersey lawmakers are proposing legislation to toughen gun control as well as to ban the state from holding stock in companies that manufacture or sell assault weapons.
Assemblyman Joseph Cryan (D-Union) said today he plans to introduce a bill tighten New Jersey’s gun laws, already among the strictest in the country, with a "gun safety campaign."
Outlining the first part of the plan, Cryan said the measure would limit the capacity of ammunition magazines from the current maximum of 15 to five.
"The Newtown (Conn.) shooter fired multiple magazines, each one with thirty bullets," Cryan said. "It took him all of 10 minutes to murder 20 children and six adults. The time it took to render them lifeless is as disturbing as the death toll.
He added: "What makes these high-capacity magazines so deadly is the number of rounds that can be fired in a short span. The staff at the school, the children, God rest their souls, had no chance against the amount of ammunition that the shooter armed himself with."
In the state Senate, Richard Codey (D-Essex) said last week that he planned to introduce a bill requiring the state to divest pension funds invested in any company that sells or manufactures assault rifles. It would also ban any future investments in them.
"The only people who need these assault weapons are drug dealers, mass murderers and cop killers," Codey said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
This was inevitable.
The New Jersey Legislature is populated with people who hate guns. They don’t believe in the Second Amendment and will take every opportunity to restrict gun ownership to the point where it is de facto, non-existent.
I urge all the other people in this forum who believe in the Second Amendment, to send a RESPECTFUL message to this guy, the governor, and the NJ State Senate President Stephen Sweeney.
You needn’t be a Jersey resident to do so.
New Jersey is a broodery for bad gun laws, like the assault rifle ban, which go on later to gain national adoption.
Remember, Cryan needs to be cajoled, not cudgeled, at this point, Christie has aspirations of national office and is a nominal Republican, and State Senate President Sweeney, although a Democrat, has a good rating from the NRA.
Any communications to these people which are accusatory, violent, or angry will be counterproductive and help the advocates of gun control to paint a negative portrait of us.
The serfs of the People’s Republic of Zoo Jersey elected these IDIOTS! They get what they deserve. The rest who can vote with their feet should just get out if at all possible.!Come over to Pennsylvania where you can still have Hi Cap mags and all the good attachments for your “ assault” rifle.( if you can find one at the moment )
“It took him all of 10 minutes to murder 20 children and six adults.”
Not wanting to nit-pick, but there is some question as to how long it took the local police to respond. Was it “7-8” minutes cited in one place or 20 minutes commonly cited?
Any event that *starts* with the perp murdering his own mother by shooting her four times in the head while she lay in bed is full of evil rage that is already outside the bounds of any human law to restrain.
The perp then went on to shoot each of these poor children from 3 to 11 times.
Had he used a shotgun, he could have murdered at least as many as he did. Had he been limited to an ice pick or tire iron, maybe he would have murdered maybe half as many.
Please don’t insult my intelligence by telling me what law we can pass that would have prevented this. The first law that his parents should have obeyed was to stay married, for many news reports tell of how much the parent’s divorce upset this young man. But if any law needs to be looked at it is the circumstances under which a person of majority age can be involuntarily institutionalized.
Based on the actions of the media elites of the three “national conversations” they demand that we hold, they want to hold the one on firearms first, and they seem hell bent on abridging the Second Amendment irrespective of how the points of their demands relate to this particular mass murder. Putting aside how this smacks of an agenda that has been on the shelf for a long time looking for a good crisis to enable it to be rushed through before we can have a fully-informed discussion, the other “national conversations” we are told that we need are about mental health and school safety.
Are we going to divert finite government resources to fund a new war on previously-legal firearms accessories at the expense of new funding implications of improvements to mental health services or school security? We have borrowed to our limit and now must put a priority on public policy initiatives.
The gun-banners are not really interested in all of this. They only want to make sure they don’t allow a good crisis from going to waste, no matter how many 30 round magazines they need to brandish in gun-free zones to get the job done while the blood is still fresh in the minds of the grieving public.
So the cops will be turning theirs in?
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