So NJ Senator John Adler passed away.

 

Is he the same Senator Adler who tried pushing legislation to ban the sale of handguns in NJ back in the early 90's?

 

http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20110403/NEWS01/110404059/1006/May-22-1994-N-J-handgun-ban-proposed

So NJ Senator John Adler passed away.

 

Is he the same Senator Adler who tried pushing legislation to ban the sale of handguns in NJ back in the early 90's?

 

http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20110403/NEWS01/110404059/1006/May-22-1994-N-J-handgun-ban-proposed

 

Yes he was.

He was the congressman for the 3rd district for one term after Jim Saxon retired and lost to John Runyan.

Passed away from a heart infection at age 51. Kinda sad to die so young.

I'm gonna be brutaly honest and say I really don't care. He was a politician, and his death isn't more important than a regular joe shmoe's death. Whatever

Ray he developed an infection that spread to his heart and died at an early age. That is a tragedy and I am sure he left kids and a wife behind. I did not agree with him politically but sad to hear this happened to him.

I'm gonna be brutaly honest and say I really don't care. He was a politician, and his death isn't more important than a regular joe shmoe's death. Whatever

 

 

Frothing at the mouth anti gunner to boot.

Ray he developed an infection that spread to his heart and died at an early age. That is a tragedy and I am sure he left kids and a wife behind. I did not agree with him politically but sad to hear this happened to him.

 

People die everyday, at younger ages and for something they have no control over. Like I said, whatever.

Frothimg at the mouth anti gunner and liberal intellectual. Did some good things as a state senator amd some questionable. But he was a young man, father of two teen boys and a husband. He is respected as a good neighbor and citizen here no matter his politics. He always treated people with respect and was a gentlman at all times. Was I sad when he lost his seat to Runyan, nope, but this is sad for hos family and the people that knew him.

I can empathize with anyone that dies before his time, but the fact that he tried to take something away from me minimizes anything. He went out of his way to TAKE AWAY what is mine, whether it be moeny, property (guns) he tried to take away people's happiness. I actually didnt know he existed before this thread and wont remember his name after it.

Gotta go with Ray on this one. A man who made it his duty to take away other Americans rights wont be missed. I do feel for the loss for his family but the nation lost nothing.

funny how you guys have zero sympathy for someone and his family and friends when he dies early, simpl over a political iidea. I guess none of you have friends that disagree with you politically. How sad.

funny how you guys have zero sympathy for someone and his family and friends when he dies early, simpl over a political iidea. I guess none of you have friends that disagree with you politically. How sad.

Some of my friends don't like guns, but they would never try to stop me or talk me out of buying them. I think it seems like this politician was more like "I don't like guns, so I'm going to make sure no one else can have them." maybe that's why there's so much hate.

+1 on Ray Ray's point of view.

What Tommy said as well.

Some of my friends don't like guns, but they would never try to stop me or talk me out of buying them. I think it seems like this politician was more like "I don't like guns, so I'm going to make sure no one else can have them." maybe that's why there's so much hate.

 

Ding ding ding

We have a winner!

 

Now, when is it Louseyberg's turn at the undertaker??

I remember him as a rabid anti gunner. I feel bad for his family, but have little sympathy for someone that actively worked to take my rights away and pass laws that could cause me to go to jail and loose everything I have, for something that is legal everywhere else in this country, just because he didn't like it.

I think it comes down to "who cares?" It's not so much a political issue or not having friends who die young. I didn't personally know him. I knew him as much alive as he is dead. It sucks big time for his wife and kids. Me? DOES NOT AFFECT ME. Sad? For his family and friends, sure. Not for me. No water off my back. Unfortunate? Yep, that's the more appropriate word. Just like last week when there was this outcry of sympathy for Liz Taylor dying. Again, unfortunate for her friends and family. I didn't personally know her, so her death was met by me with a shrug.

 

PEOPLE DIE. It's only sad if it affects your life in any meaningful way. Saying "sympathies to the family" etc is just a hollow social reflex.

Ding ding ding

We have a winner!

 

Now, when is it Louseyberg's turn at the undertaker??

 

 

The Lautenmummy is an animated corpse at this point, kept 'alive' by a secret cabal of liberal vampires and funded by the rounding errors at ADP (Lautenberg's company, for those that may not know) a la Richard Pryor in Superman III.

 

Adler was also the OGAM tiebreaker, IIRC. Sorry he died relatively young (for nowadays), but I have known younger people that died from similar causes.

 

Adler was also the OGAM tiebreaker, IIRC.

 

 

 

Senator Fred *One Gun a Month* Madden was the tiebreaker.

DOES NOT AFFECT ME.

 

Actually it had potential to. You never know where these rabid anti-gunners will pop up, potentially whispering in the ear of someone and tilting the balance away from your favor.

 

I don't wish ill on the man but I'm delighted that his influence in the sphere of firearms has ended.

I think it comes down to "who cares?" It's not so much a political issue or not having friends who die young. I didn't personally know him. I knew him as much alive as he is dead. It sucks big time for his wife and kids. Me? DOES NOT AFFECT ME. Sad? For his family and friends, sure. Not for me. No water off my back. Unfortunate? Yep, that's the more appropriate word. Just like last week when there was this outcry of sympathy for Liz Taylor dying. Again, unfortunate for her friends and family. I didn't personally know her, so her death was met by me with a shrug.

 

PEOPLE DIE. It's only sad if it affects your life in any meaningful way. Saying "sympathies to the family" etc is just a hollow social reflex.

I couldn't agree more

Meh, another politician bites the dust. Que the feigned sadness and mourning from his party members in Trenton as they work tirelessly to strip us of our freedoms.

I can empathize with anyone that dies before his time, but the fact that he tried to take something away from me minimizes anything. He went out of his way to TAKE AWAY what is mine, whether it be moeny, property (guns) he tried to take away people's happiness. I actually didnt know he existed before this thread and wont remember his name after it.

 

Ya' know, I'm pretty sympathetic when it comes to people who die at a young age and leave a family behind. But you do bring up a good point... how is he any different than say some other radical leader that took away freedoms? Should I mourn the death of Stalin, Marx and Castro? How about Manson? Daumer? How about Robert Byrd? I know these examples are extreme but I want to make a point that a legacy is something you leave behind. We do have a choice to leave a good or bad legacy... we also have a choice to speak freely of what we think about people.

 

With that being said, I will say a prayer for the family and their loss and pray for God's truth and direction over their family.

You have to realize when it comes to these politicians who make it their goal to deprive others of their rights. They are viewed with no more sympathy than a traitor to the constitution. First amendment says you can say and believe anything you want, but when you act upon it to deprive others of natural fundamental rights, you get zero sympathy from me regardless of age or cause of death.

 

Yes I have liberal friends, but they are just that, opinions to which they are entitled to.

 

I have no doubt this man likely believed that his ideas were sound and just in the name of safety, unfortunately whether he knows it or not, it is the same kind of thinking that tyrants use to take a foothold of power.

I am sorry if I believe there to be a large bag of hypocrisy going on here. R u all telling me that if you had a friend/acquiatence that was anti gun, you would not mourn his passing, early or late? That you cant seperate your politics from the real world. That you allow thoughts to remove you from what is really important in this world relationships with others, no matter their thoughts, feelings or beliefs. Is this the new racism.... political thought.

 

I am glad to say I knew John Adler, faults and all. And I am proud to say he was a good man and will be missed.

I am sorry if I believe there to be a large bag of hypocrisy going on here. R u all telling me that if you had a friend/acquiatence that was anti gun, you would not mourn his passing, early or late? That you cant seperate your politics from the real world. That you allow thoughts to remove you from what is really important in this world relationships with others, no matter their thoughts, feelings or beliefs. Is this the new racism.... political thought.

 

I am glad to say I knew John Adler, faults and all. And I am proud to say he was a good man and will be missed.

 

It's one thing to mourn the passing of a friend who you did not see eye to eye with politically.....it's another when someone you don't know actively tried to strip you of your civil rights.

 

You're saying you knew him, others are saying they didn't, and thus don't care.

 

I fail to see any sort of hypocrisy going on from anybody who didn't know, and thus, don't care about Sen Adler's passing.

Senator Fred *One Gun a Month* Madden was the tiebreaker.

 

Ah, OK, I see now that Adler was already in US congress then. My mistake

I am sorry if I believe there to be a large bag of hypocrisy going on here. R u all telling me that if you had a friend/acquiatence that was anti gun, you would not mourn his passing, early or late? That you cant seperate your politics from the real world. That you allow thoughts to remove you from what is really important in this world relationships with others, no matter their thoughts, feelings or beliefs. Is this the new racism.... political thought.

 

I am glad to say I knew John Adler, faults and all. And I am proud to say he was a good man and will be missed.

 

I think you're slightly missing the point. I did not know the man even existed, therefore I could care less about his passing. If I knew he existed, I would not care about his passing. If I actually knew him personally, I would then care. No one should feign sympathy just because he was a public figure. Nor should they have celebrated his passing because of political reasons.