NJ Senate Leader Sweeney: Always room for improvement

[Cemeterys Gun Blob 165]

Seems NJ Senator Steve Sweeney made a statement regarding toughening gun laws;

 

[sweeney] the latest to make a statement on the issue, saying on Thursday that there is “always room for improvement,” on gun control laws.

 

but NorthJersey.com laments;

 

Sweeney, whose power base is in South Jersey, where hunting and gun ownership is prevalent

 

to expand on what Sweeney had to say;

 

“I think there’s always room for improvement,” Sweeney said, citing the closing of loopholes and mental health treatment as areas that could be enhanced. “It can’t just be, ‘Let’s ban this gun and that gun.’”

 

the discussion should be a national one, with a focus on how to prevent guns from flowing into states like New Jersey, where gun laws are among the toughest in the nation, from states that have weaker restrictions.

 

We're in for a ride........

 

http://www.northjersey.com/news/Pressure_to_take_sides_on_gun_debate_grows_for_top_politicians_.html

[Bob2222 317]

the discussion should be a national one, with a focus on how to prevent guns from flowing into states like New Jersey, where gun laws are among the toughest in the nation, from states that have weaker restrictions.

 

 

Interesting take from the Wall Street Journal:

 

http://online.wsj.co...Opinion_LEADTop

 

On the other side is the reality that any of these proposals must, in the normal course of things, pass Congress. A few quick facts about that body. 1) More than half of its members have an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association. 2) The few members today calling for gun control are the same few who have always called for gun control. 3) The House is run by Republicans.

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Montana's Jon Tester and Max Baucus, Alaska's Mark Begich, Arkansas's Mark Pryor, South Dakota's Tim Johnson, Louisiana's Mary Landrieu -- all are quiet on that red-state Democratic front. North Dakota's brand new senator, Heidi Heitkamp, declared proposals mulled by the Biden task force as "way in the extreme" and "not gonna pass." Unlike Mr. Obama, all of these members still face elections.

 

Over in the House, when asked recently what was more likely—passage of gun control or Speaker John Boehner becoming a pagan—a senior GOP leadership aide told Buzzfeed: "Probably the latter."

 

Even were the Senate to summon 60 votes (unlikely), and even were Mr. Boehner to risk the renewed wrath of his caucus by moving such a bill (crazy unlikely), any legislation would fall to members such as Virginia's Bob Goodlatte (who runs the Judiciary Committee) and Pete Sessions (who runs the Rules Committee). Mr. Goodlatte is strong on gun rights. Mr. Sessions is from Texas.

 

 

That's not to say Obama won't produce "Executive Orders" and that there won't be some laws passed that look good and allow him to spike the football (as he did with the "fiscal cliff").

[mikelets456 78]

Maybe someone needs to show Sweeney and these morons the facts:

 

Last week, RealClearPolitics posted video of WXIX-TV's Ben Swann, a local reporter in Cincinnati, giving the "politically incorrect truth" about the Second Amendment. In his latest his "Reality Check" segment, Swann explained the right to bear arms in a historical context.

 

On Tuesday's broadcast of WXIX-TV's local news, Swann used his segment to fact check the heated debate between gun control activist Piers Morgan and gun rights activist Alex Jones.

 

There is one particular stat that Morgan has been citing for weeks, and it was the center of his argument while debating radio show host Alex Jones on Monday night, according to Swann. Morgan continues to claim that gun deaths have dropped dramatically since they banned guns nearly 15 years ago.

SWANN: The U.S., despite being number one in gun ownership, is number 28 in gun homicides, with a rate of 2.97 per 100,000 people. Of course, Piers Morgan isn't calling for the U.S. to be more like El Salvador and Honduras; he's calling for us to be more like Great Britain. So what do the numbers look like there?

 

The U.K. has the second highest overall crime rate in the E.U. The U.K. has the fifth highest robbery rate, the fourth highest burglary rate. But more importantly, the E.U. named Britain as the most violent country in the E.U. In the U.K., there are 2,034 per 100,000 people. That puts it way ahead of even South Africa with a rate of 1,609 per 100,000 people. In the United States, we're not even in the top 10. The U.S. has a violent crime rate of 466 crimes per 100,000 residents.

 

So what this means for you is that while people like Morgan insist that the U.S. can learn from Britain -- well, maybe we can? But we might learn is that violent crime is not the result of a gun or any tool, it is the result of the heart of men and women. And that is Reality Check.

[Shawnmoore81 623]

He contacted a group I'm in about starting a 1 year pistol permit. 1 gun a month got 12 months. Still had wait 30 days between. We shot it down. He was looking for support because the rumor is he want to take a run at the gov's seat. Problem is he is anti gun. He told 3 of our members years ago he's ban all of em if he could. This happened in ponzios diner. So we decided #1 that offer wasn't good enough to rally behind him. #2 we don't trust him anyway.

[deadeye74 5]

He contacted a group I'm in about starting a 1 year pistol permit. 1 gun a month got 12 months. Still had wait 30 days between. We shot it down. He was looking for support because the rumor is he want to take a run at the gov's seat. Problem is he is anti gun. He told 3 of our members years ago he's ban all of em if he could. This happened in ponzios diner. So we decided #1 that offer wasn't good enough to rally behind him. #2 we don't trust him anyway.

 

I heard the same thing. Basically, all that idea would do is eliminate a trip after 6 months to the PD for 6 more more permits. There was also no mention about multiple gun purchase exemptions, or what happens if someone wanted to buy 13 or more pistols in a year.

 

Repeal the pistol permit law and eliminate OGAM is the logical thing to do but we all know how logic and politics mix.

[Malsua 1,422]

the discussion should be a national one, with a focus on how to prevent guns from flowing into states like New Jersey,

 

So he's in support of VIPR teams interdicting the flows of arms into NJ? Maybe checkpoints, gates and detention facilities at all NJ border crossings?

 

At some point if these government despots get their way, it'll be easier to cross the US border than to transit from one state to the next without the proper paperwork.