Posted on 06/27/2009 7:24:52 AM PDT by epow
You've got to wonder what Governor Corzine's political handlers are thinking these days.
Amidst an epic financial crisis, they've apparently decided that portraying the Governor as a gun banner is a distraction needed to win re-election. But they haven't done their homework and have picked a discredited issue fabricated by the gun ban lobby that's going to badly misfire and embarrass the Governor, not only for what it focuses on, but also for what it ignores.
Since winning the Democratic gubernatorial primary on June 2, the Governor has been publicly pressing to ration the Constitutional right of law-abiding citizens to obtain handguns under S1774, in effect holding them responsible for gun crime and illegal trafficking.
No matter that they've been thoroughly investigated and pre-approved by the State before a purchase can take place. No matter that they may have already waited 6 months for purchase permits. No matter that the sales are registered with State and local law enforcement, so we'd know in a heartbeat if there were any truth to the phony claim that handguns purchased in legal, government-monitored multiple sales from New Jersey dealers are illegally trafficked or used in crime by their purchasers.
Trying to reduce gun crime by rationing guns to honest citizens is a little like trying to reduce drunk driving by rationing cars to responsible drinkers. It's absurd. It targets the blameless and does nothing to address the conduct of actual wrongdoers.
Gun rationing schemes like S1774 have been tried before in other states, but they have either been voided, repealed, or shown ineffective, since criminals bent on illegal trafficking can spread purchases among multiple buyers in lieu of a single buyer purchasing multiple guns.
The claim by supporters of S1774 that State-certified law abiding New Jerseyans are magically
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What's up next for NJ's residents, aka criminals until proved innocent, a 10 year prison term for unknowingly possessing a banned table knife?
*gasp* - A table knife!? Don’t you know that only criminals use those? [/sarc][/cynic]
Gun laws don’t have to make sense to pass. As a matter of fact, most don’t.
The state of New Jersey has totally lost it’s way.
BANGLIST!
And the country is following close behind.
Nothing could get me to vote for that stupid RINO Chris Christie ... except Jon Corzine! Governor-to-be Christie just needs to relax and enjoy the summer.
Yep
Lefists aren’t concerned with criminals having firearms. They fear firearms in the hands of actual Americans, for thug politicians realize that they cannot enslave an armed people. Firearms represent the principle means by which citizens can overthrow a tyrannical state. The Founders knew this very well. After self defense, it is most important reason for the 2nd amendment!
I hereby nominate that remark for the title of "Understatement of the Year". No wait, make that "Understatement of the Decade".
What could be a worse fate than being forced to reside in NJ for the remainder of one's life? Well, after a moment of thought NY, MA, and CA came to mind, but I would call it a tied score. There are not enough of the Magic Kenyan's phony-baloney paper dollars in circulation to persuade me to live in any of those benighted police states.
Day late and a dollar short for Scott Bach and the state’s RPA. They spend their time telling us how we should keep quiet and not make waves or upset anyone, because we might make those gun-grabbing liberty-thieving Democrats mad, y’see. Leave it to us, they say; we’ll take care of things on the lobbying front.
For all the pussyfooting, multitudes of members & dollars, and all that insider lobbying influence, NJ gun owners get screwed anyway. Over and over and over.
Only the semiauto assault table knives, the ones with detachable high capacity magazines and 6 other deadly assault table knife identifiers including pistol grip, threaded muzzle, heat-shielded barrel, bayonet lug, etc, etc. Hunters don't use assault table knives to throw at ducks, only terrorists and criminals use them to kill innocent drug buyers in the 'hood.
Anyway, all that assault table knife stuff makes it awfully hard to spread butter on your bread at the dinner table so I use an assault popsicle stick for that job.
Perhaps people here may have noticed how much Leftists like using marches, mass demonstrations, and other examples of using mobs to intimidate. This does not work too well against people who are both armed, and willing to open fire to defend themselves and their homes. It's also hard to get people to participate in such mob activities.
Something like this makes my blood boil over, and that's not good for my 72 year-old heart. I'm not a NJ resident and there isn't enough gold in Ft. Knox to get me to live there, but NJ is part of the USA and the US Constitution is supposed to apply to NJ residents the same as it does to residents of GA where I live. This poor guy was robbed pure and simple of his unalienable, Constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear arms simply because he possessed the "wrong kind" of firearm. I strongly suspect that there is no "right kind" of firearm if you reside in the NJ police state. The record doesn't say if his "crime" is a felony, but if it is under the terms of the federal 1968 Gun Control Act he will never be able to legally possess a firearm of any kind again anywhere in the US as long as he lives.
Uh-oh, I gotta run, I feel my blood starting to boil again and I have to go drink a can of diet Coke to cool it down.
Gun laws must work....I mean look at Newark, Camden and Trenton.
But those rights will not be given any protection from infringement in NJ as long as the state's liberal voter majority is willing to put up with a Nazi-like state government that denies them their rights of all kinds. If NJ's liberal voters of both parties are content to be treated by their liberal, criminally inclined overlords like 3 year-old children who desperately need to be protected from the people who they have been led to believe are dangerous, reckless, and probably unlawful gun slingers, that's exactly how they will be treated.
An unjust law may be treated one of two ways; overturned, or ignored.
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