I sent out faxes and made phone calls to my elected officials asking them to vote against the stupid anti gun owner bills being proposed. Today I got the following back from my assemblyman Michael Patrick Carroll who represents the 25th district which is in Morris County NJ:

 

Let me take the opportunity to thank for taking the time to call me on

the subject of Second Amendment rights.

 

Among the first bills I ever introduced was a proposal to bring NJ into

the modern era and permit concealed carry. Naturally, given the present,

anti-freedom majority, that bill continues to languish.

 

A noted political extremist once opined, "never let a good crisis go to

waste". Whenever some deeply disturbed individual goes on a rampage, the

cries go up to restrict the freedom of the 99.999999% of the people who

don't abuse their Constitutional rights. While the shootings at Sandy

Hook were a horror, not a single one of the new restrictions presently

proposed would have had the slightest impact. The massacre is being

cynically employed by the enemies of freedom as an excuse to advance

their ideological agenda,.

 

Simple logic demonstrates that freedom does not cause any shootings.

While it seems obvious that we need to pay greater attention to those

with serious mental instabilities, that can be accomplished without

imposing upon law abiding citizens.

 

Of course, the advocates of freedom face an administration in DC

actively hostile to freedom, a media which simply echoes their talking

points, and an often uneducated public. (One poll showed that a majority

favored a ban on semi-automatic weapons, although they have no clue what

that phrase actually means.) That means that freedom advocates need to

patiently explain to an often uneducated public why anti-freedom

proposals simply make no sense.

I've been doing my best. I appeared on NJTV on this subject; you can

find the interview here.

 

http://www.njtvonline.org/njtoday/video/assemblyman-carroll-says-nothing-could-have-prevented-sandy-hook-massacre/

 

Again, I appreciate your note. Rest assured that I will continue to

fight for defend and expand freedom for as long as it is my privilege to

serve.

 

Michael Patrick Carroll

Just watched his interview. I like this guy!

I wish we have legislators like that in Bergen....

He's one of the scheduled speakers at the rally on Friday.

 

...and one of the few politicians to whom I've made a campaign donation...

How bad are the Bergen County ones? Most of them are Republicans.

I wrote him and got the exact word for word response

I wrote him and got the exact word for word response

 

That is fine, I would not expect them to reinvent the wheel. He has a well thought out response and seems to be honest about it.

Can we clone him??

 

 

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Can we clone him??

 

What we need is to get him to run for Governor. Our current rotund governor ran against Carroll in 1995 for the State Assembly on an "I support the Assault Weapons Ban" platform. Carroll beat him by a huge margin.