Just an update: Newark Mayor Cory Booker has vetoed this proposed ordinance, but the city council is mulling an override of it.

 

This over-reaching by the clueless Newark politicians is just the culmination of many years of feckless liberal politics and policies that has pretty much doomed a once-great city. Had they allowed law-abiding citizens and business owners to exercise their Second Amendment rights all these years instead of making it almost impossible to purchase and carry handguns, they wouldn't find themselves neck and neck with Camden as New Jersey's most violent city.

 

This may be a simplistic and dogmatic perception on my account, but it's the only way I've got to go with, and I go to work there everyday.

 

Scott

i remember a star ledger story a year or so ago about newark's politically appointed special officers - one of them killed 3 people in an 8 year period , all of them in bars -

Anthony I do agree with you to some degree. But you're missing one important fact..... Peaceful change is what you do when facing superior firepower Honestly though, I don't think the African American community had enough people, or weapons to truly start a "violent" revolution and get out of it alive. I also don't think it would have helped their cause too much. This is a touchy subject, so I don't plan to comment too much more on it....but I think there's times for peaceful movements as well.

 

it certainly didnt work out to well in 1968...