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No more red light cameras in NJ
For now.
(I think the car looks more like a first-generation Acura TSX than a 3-series BMW by the size and the tail lights.)
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I read this article. It has a little more information then the NJ article does.
Check out this article from The Daily Journal:
On searching 72-year-old Gordon N. Van Gilder's van, the sheriff said, officers reported that "used heroin bags were found." A broken scale also reportedly was found.
Heroin is still illegal in New Jersey?
Is the penalty for heroin or an antique flintlock pistol higher in New Jersey? (I'm not sure I want to know...)
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I don't play. "Lottery: A tax for people who are bad at math".
But while I think we'll always maintain an abode here at the Jersey shore, we don't plan to die as New Jersey residents.
In my "road warrior" days I was typically out of the state for more than half of the year, so this isn't difficult to do, and make it "official".
Daughter just started "dream job" #2 in Philly after balance sheet of "dream job" #1 employer in NYC began to implode.
Our chances of buying another home outside of NJ soon have increased. Wife is retired -- NJ State. I'm partly retired, and I telecommute so we can live almost anywhere on the planet that has decent internet access. We own a fairly modest house, the property taxes are outrageous enough. We'd like a larger house -- we've been looking for the last 8 years -- but resist the idea of being screwed with NJ taxes even more than we are now.
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I've been to a few "buybacks" and most taken in are junk.
This is what they collected in Rumson last year. (When I heard about the buyback, my first thought was that there were guys who were going to cry when they saw what their ex-wives had turned in for $25. A short drive to a local gun dealer would net the ex more than $25 for the Mossberg bullpup and more than $100 for the Luger.)
IIRC in Camden it was piles of rusty old hunting rifles and that's probably what they'd collect in Newark and Trenton, too. (The gangsters keep their Glocks, of course.)
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Is there any evidence that untrained legal purchasers are a significant safety hazard in New Jersey? (Compared to, say, untrained swimming pool owners in New Jersey.)
Is there any evidence that untrained illegal gun owners are a hazard in Newark, Camden and Trenton?
Wouldn't it make more sense to mandate firearm safety courses in New Jersey public schools, particularly in urban school districts?
Or to mandate a safety course prior to buying a swimming pool.
The goal of this bill IMO would be to make Christie look bad if/when he vetoes it. The problem with that strategy is that a veto would make Christie look good with many groups that might be apprehensive about voting for him for president. Or vice president.
I expect much of this nonsense to be passed under the next Democrat governor. I only hope that I am a resident of another state when that happens.
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Since minority race and ethnicity correlate directly with homicide rates, but inversely with firearm ownership. It's another one of those things that liberals and the mainstream media prefer not to think about.
If not completely buried, it should appear somewhere like the appendix on page 129 of the annual ATF report, where they hope nobody will notice it.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/160223/men-married-southerners-likely-gun-owners.aspx
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I've seen them do this in Point Pleasant Beach. They were pulling cars off 35 North and into a lot by the train station.
I was driving a white van at the time and so was an innocent to the cops who just waved me through. They seemed to be very interested in inspecting a new-ish Mercedes coupe.
I looked it up at the time and discovered DMV does really does have a mobile inspection program.
Edit: I found THIS about the program:
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Anybidy know if those families have moved onto motivate another state right now? Or for some reason was NJ easy pickings for them?
If gun control is their actual goal, there are about 40 states with far more liberal gun laws where they would be completely wasting their time.
But I doubt this really has much, if anything to do with gun control. AFAIK, New Jersey is the only dark blue state with a Republican governor who is running for president in 2016. (He's leading the Republican pack in New Hampshire again according to the latest poll.)
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I was at the point that I believed he would allow it to pass, shocked when told yesterday that he vetoed it ( it shouldn't have taken this long )
I'm mostly surprised that he did not leave it for the absolute last minute. I expected the veto to come this afternoon at 4:29 PM, and for the faux outrage then to become lost in the 4th of July celebrations and the incoming storm.
I also expected him to veto the tax increases at the same time.
So much for me ever becoming a trusted Christie adviser! (That veto statement was pure genius IMO! I'm wondering who's advising him now.)
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I'm not sure how he thinks he could ever be elected.
Like many if not most politicians, he has an ego the size of a small planet.
If Hillary has a stumble, fall, faint or seizure on camera, the 2016 nominating process -- on both sides -- is going to look like feeding time at the piranha tank. Don't count Christie out in an environment like that, he's a very talented politician.
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Is there any chance we can ever vote out a change in our lifetimes or is escape from nj the only option ?
I doubt it. NJ laws are designed to make the most productive members of the population want to leave the state and attract less productive residents. It's slow, but people really are moving out of the state. NJ lost a congressional seat in 1990 and just lost another one in 2010.
Is there hope? In my lifetime? I don't believe so.
It took Rome more than 1000 years to recover. Detroit is still in a population death spiral. One problem with moving is where to move -- Pennsylvania is turning from red to purple, as is Virginia. We need to move to West Virginia and west, and to North Carolina and south to find America now.
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He allegedly ran over two people on bicycles but they survived. Killed 4 guys and 2 women, as you say three stabbed.
I found it curious that the father of one victim, Mr. Martinez, only mentioned the gun, and kept blubbering about this being a "violence against women" thing. I was surprised he didn't include anti-Hispanic prejudice.
You must forgive anything anybody says a couple of days after losing a child like that.
Martinez is a criminal defense attorney, so he's devoted his professional life to keeping bad people and crazy people free. I don't believe that this is anything that he would not have said before his son was murdered.
I have sympathy for him as a grieving father, but absolutely no sympathy at all for him waving his kid's bloody shirt.
The mental health story and the hammer, machete and BMW aspects don't fit into the liberal agenda, but the gun control meme does.
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And few if any reports that he also had a knife, and that he actually stabbed three of his victims. They made it seem like he shot them all.
It's been reported (in the UK press) that he used a machete and a hammer to murder his roommates.
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I think the party breakdown in New Jersey is 33% D, 20% R, 47% I. "Independents" are the largest single bloc, although their overall bias tends to be liberal.
Anyway, I have a theory is that the more stringent zoning requirements in the blue states lead to less diverse neighborhoods. Not just New Jersey but all over the northeast and New England.
In New Jersey, the Mount Laurel decision has been moving things in the direction of more economic neighborhood diversity, but the decision dates back to 1975, so implementation has been glacier-slow.
NJ suburbs are pretty safe and suburban schools are decent. I suspect that more exposure to the reality of life in the urban areas of the state would drive enough liberal suburbanites from their safe suburban cocoons to make a huge difference. If the NJSC ever mandated a true diversity in all NJ school classrooms to reflect the socioeconomic makeup of the state there would be an immense voter backlash.
Of the 10 US states with the highest African American populations, 7 are reliably red states, 2 are blue and 1 (Virginia) was red but is turning purple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_African-American_population
I have seen no data to indicate that the voting patterns of African Americans are much different in red states than in blue states. The difference between red and blue states/2A permissive and 2A restrictive states/low-tax states and high-tax states would seem to mostly be in the voting patterns of the majority populations.
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with the large welfare run cities we have here in NJ, I do not ever see a swing to a blue state for NJ. Too many people and too many politicians looking and getting handouts. That will never change.
The dark red states of the Deep South have larger minority populations than states like New Jersey, and have more neighborhood diversity than states like New Jersey.
I'm guessing that the red states also have more economic diversity within neighborhoods because of less stringent zoning requirements.
Bur I'm afraid you're right -- New Jersey is one of the least likely places to ever change.
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Yes...but usually not until they've done so much damage that it takes decades to recover...
Maybe even centuries. It took more than 1000 years for Rome to recover.
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Pennsylvania, here I come.
Watch the polls for the Pennsylvania Governor's race before calling the moving company. Tom Corbett has favorability ratings of under 50% and he seems to be in hiding.
North Carolina? The summers are hot, but at least the state is getting more and more red.
I'm confident that most Democrats who are smart enough to get elected realize that this won't have any effect at all, and that gang bangers in Trenton and Camden can drive over the bridges to Pennsylvania and buy anything they want. This is just a smoke screen to give the appearance that they're doing something about problems that they are unable and unwilling to tackle.
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A couple of NJ gerrmanders ago, Holt was my congresscritter. We needed to contact his office about something or other (definitely not political) and his staff was useless. Since he's now "retiring" -- if he was unresponsive to his constituents before he announced this, he'd be even less responsive now.
Was there a response to the newspaper article directed to the newspaper itself?
Those "Wild West" states that Holt and his ilk claim to want to avoid with restrictive firearms laws here are significantly safer places to live than New Jersey. His 12th District includes Trenton, and "Wild West" states are much, much safer than the streets of Trenton. Holt claims to be a scientist, but there is no link between cause and effect apparent in his position.
If "... we manage to live quite comfortably with New Jersey's gun laws." and "we" is his constituents, it's because many of the people he represents choose to ignore New Jersey's gun laws. For the rest of us, the laws are very uncomfortable.
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NO2.
http://www.ag.auburn.edu/users/parmega/articles/neon/
Seriously? If the Corolla has a stick shift, it should be as fun to drive as any car with a stick shift. If not, enjoy the reliability and low operating costs.
The Corolla is the most popular car in the History Of Man, and reached the 40 million milestone last September. http://toyotanews.pressroom.toyota.com/releases/toyota+corolla+40+million+sold.htm
There are reasons for that, but the Corolla's performance potential isn't very high on the list.
We have a Corolla that I inherited and that we keep as a spare car. The only "mods" that I've done to the car are WeatherTech floor mats, Michelin tires (because the original tires were as hard as hockey pucks), and (blush) I hard-wired it for my radar detector, (just because).
It's not all that slow! The first Porsche 911s had a 2liter motor producing 130 hp. You can get into plenty of trouble with the Corolla's 132 hp. If you want to go faster, save your money and attend a performance driving school, like Skip Barber. http://skipbarber.com/
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Police and jails are a fairly recent invention. (The City of New York Police Department was established in 1845.)
Prior to that, a horse and a shovel. And the crows were probably better fed in the 19th Century than they are today. Hypothetically speaking.
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I don't have as much trouble with a drug addict quietly overdosing in the privacy of his or her home as I have with the 368 drug addicts robbing 36,800 little old ladies to pay for their drugs.
Was the quality of life in Newark, Camden and Trenton better 100+ years ago when heroin addicts bought their drugs from a drug store, or is it better today?
There is enough benefit from prohibition to both the drug importers and sellers and the drug enforcement community now that the current environment isn't going to change. The little old ladies in Trenton, Newark and Camden will continue to lose their Social Security money and receive their sutures in the ER -- if they're lucky.
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Also, what other bigger fish do the dems want then everyone's guns?
Re-election.
Money. (Which buys them re-election.)
In nj gun haters are by far the larger population and what would win their votes more than taking all the guns away..
I think that NJ taxpayers are the larger population. The gun-grabbers either fail to understand or choose not to understand the firearm owner demographic.
They seem to think that the problem with Camden, Trenton and Newark is sportsmen and NRA members legally buying guns and ammo.
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First of all, its completely arbitrary
First, it is NOT completely arbitrary. Second, buy a radar detector. Third, drive an innocuous car.
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The Wife has to drive to PA to buy HG ammo (even .22's) since she doesn't hold a NJFID, even though it's for me for Christmas...........
All of NJ's gun laws passed since the 1960s are incredibly dumb, since the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is right across the river from the NJ Capitol Building.
Do NJ legislators seriously believe that Trenton gangsters are too stupid to find their way across the Calhoun Street bridge?
Ex-boyfriend sought in woman's slaying while waiting for permit!
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Problem?
http://www.nj.com/camden/index.ssf/2015/06/nj_2nd_amendment_society_protests_at_sweeneys_hous.html
Solution?
"West Deptford Dems take up ordinance to stop picketing at Sweeney’s home"