Should someone be credited, let alone championed, for doing the right thing for the wrong reason?
Particularly if that reason is shameless political self promotion?
The truth is that Christies trying to peel off just enough Conservatives tonget him back into the nomination race. His long history of support for anti-gun measures shows this act to be an outlier. If he wasn’t running for higher office as a Republican he would have signed it in a big flashy ceremony, probably with Sarah Brady on one side of him and Gabby Giffords on the other, with Newtown and Columbine families surrounding them.
Whatever.
But for the gun owners of New Jersey this is a brief but temporary victory in their fight with the maniac Democrats in Trenton.
The enemy of my enemy may not always be my friend, but there are times he is and this is one of them.
I am thankful the governor vetoed the bill, I am well aware of why he did so, but I am thankful anyway.