Posted on 08/25/2017 7:43:57 AM PDT by ZULU
Phil Murphy, the Democratic nominee for governor, pledged Thursday to enact many of the gun-control measures that Republican Gov. Chris Christie has denied if he is elected in November, raising the likelihood that so-called smart guns will hit the market in New Jersey and .50-caliber rifles will be purged from it.
But Murphy wouldn't stop there.
In a conference call to accept the endorsement of a super PAC led by former Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Murphy said he is considering a new tax on gun sales to support law enforcement and mental health programs, as well as a host of other gun-control measures he characterized as "common sense" measures that balance Second Amendment rights with public safety.
Anybody that votes for him deserves neither liberty nor security, to paraphrase one of our Founding Fathers.
Wonder how he would feel if counties in NJ put a tax on abortions to bring some “common sense” safety to the medical industry...
If they put a high enough tax on jackasses, this
POS might leave the state.
Sure they will.
“Common sense” implies we have something in common. Not me.
If I could, I would.
GRANDKIDS+KIDS+WIFE = PROBLEMS
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Anybody that votes for him deserves neither liberty nor security, to paraphrase one of our Founding Fathers.
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No, but I’d bet they get a NICE, fat (taxpayer supplied) govt check.
Of course he would. The question is this: Will the Democrat running on the Republican ticket be any different? In this case, probably not.
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...”common sense” measures that balance Second Amendment rights with public safety.
Sure they will.
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I say, attach a rider that the same rules\’laws’ on the 2nd ALSO pertain to the 1st, voting and ABORTION.
Why, if ONE Right can have ‘common sense’ laws AGAINST (though it specifically states, “shall NOT be infringed”), they should have NO complaints for doing so on *other* “rights”.
....Yeah, NO elected would dare bring up the elephant in the room.
I’m truly sorry for your predicament; I was married (divorce but no kids) so my relocation to TX was pretty easy.
Prayers up for you brother.
Kind of ironic that the sickest emotionally crippled social misfits are always pushing "mental health programs"...
How is taxing the exercise of the Second Amendment any different than a Poll Tax?
You really don’t want NJ people to come to Texas. They’re the reason NJ is a tyrannical mini-banana republic to start with. They sh!t where they ate and because they’re too stupid to realize that the nasty little police state that is NJ now was caused by their voting habits, they’ll bring their attitudes with them and do their best to ruin Texas
Because New Jersey isn’t enough of a communist state........
I am very glad that I escaped the dark and fascist Peoples Republik of Neu Joisey, and wound up in Texas. On guns, NJ is about the WORST, and every time a Dim gets into office it somehow deteriorates even more.
I remember when Jim “Flim-Flam” Florio was guv - he gave us the “Assault Weapons Ban” in the early ‘90s, care of blackmailing a few Republicans (yeah, several inexplicably changed their votes after hastily-arranged meetings with the guv. Just a coinky-dink, I’m sure). I used to go with a friend to Pennsylvania to buy magazines (not Time and Newsweek). I could never use any over 15 rounds at a range in NJ, but just the idea that the government said that I CAN’T own a metal box with a spring in it that is “too big,” made me want them all the more. It was fun to see the Welcome to Pennsylvania signs - because Gov. Casey (the elder) had, right underneath that, “Where America Starts.” That really pissed off Florio, but there wasn’t a blessed think that the old Commie-mafioso could do about it.
I distinctly recall that when my wife and I left for Texas, we were crossing the Bridge on I-95. Immediately after passing the “Welcome to Delaware” sign, I turned to my wife (of about 18 months at that point) and said:
“Well, now you don’t have to worry about bailing me out of jail.”
Silence and pie-eyes. Then, “Why?”
I then explained about the over 15-round ban on mags to her. She asked, “So, how many of them do you have?”
“Don’t know, exactly, but probably about 200 years’ worth in Rahway State Prison.”
She turned white as a sheet, and didn’t say a word for about 30 seconds. Then, “They don’t have laws like that in Texas, do they?”
“No, babe, Texas is in America.”
Nothing much has changed in either location...except things are more the way they were than 17 years ago. Hell, now we have a company in Texas that makes an automated milling machine that converts 80% AR lowers into 100% lowers in about 3 hours. Push a button, go watch the football game, then go out to the garage and assemble your weapon. Boy, do I LOVE Texas!
Oh, a PHOCK Jersey - there will be only one more time when I have to go back to that open-air prison, which is for my mother’s funeral (which I’m in no rush to attend, of course). She also escaped, and is living down here. Finally, her votes count - it is a WONDERFUL feeling.
Cuomo’s NY isn’t any better. If Trump doesn’t help change America we will see massive migrations out of the liberal states because they will inevitably fail like Venezuela.
I did that already. See #17.
“Kind of ironic that the sickest emotionally crippled social misfits are always pushing “mental health programs”... “
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