Feel free to add the text of your letter here - either so someone else can use your ideas or so that we can all critique your horrible English. 

 

Gentlemen,
 

Shortly you will be voting on legislation to further restrict my rights within the state of NJ "for the good of other people".  My rights are not the issue here.  I'm extremely careful about exercising my rights.  Please stop passing legislation to infringe on my rights.  None of my rights have caused ANYONE any harm EVER.
 

Instead focus on the criminals who use guns to commit crimes ILLEGALLY.
 

NOT ONE of the proposed laws will affect any criminal.  In fact, these laws will only increase the potential of harming otherwise law abiding citizens in the loopholes, conundrums and stupidity of NJ's already overbearing web of gun laws.
 

Criminals don't care about your laws - and frankly you've shown the people that you don't either.  You appoint and reappoint judges and prosecutors who continue to allow plea bargaining and early release, parole, ISP, etc for these violent offenders while non-violent non-repeat offenders get caught up in the stupidity of NJ's laws and end up serving full sentences, because of course they have nothing to plea bargain with.

Enough.  We have enough laws, we have enough BS, we have enough taxes.  Stop the stupidity, and stop it NOW!  November comes quickly.

 

 

One small point.......

When one commits crimes...it is generally considered "Illegal" already.

I know of no crimes that can be committed legally.

One small point.......

When one commits crimes...it is generally considered "Illegal" already.

I know of no crimes that can be committed legally.

 

Our "representatives" regularly commit crimes legally...  At least that's what they tell us when we point out their criminal activity.

Our "representatives" regularly commit crimes legally...  At least that's what they tell us when we point out their criminal activity.

Excellent point....but to commit a crime illegally is still a double negative.

Excellent point....but to commit a crime illegally is still a double negative.

...or at the very least, a redundancy.

 

Fun to see the grammar police pulled over once in awhile, but generally an excellent letter. Do we think they really read them?

Might want to throw a Ladies in front of the Gentlemen as there are a few on our side

My approach has been to steer away from "my rights," which they don't care a rats ass about and talk about practical considerations, like how much these things will cost and what the reaction may be in the next election when their names are attached to a failed boondoggle.

My approach has been to steer away from "my rights," which they don't care a rats ass about and talk about practical considerations, like how much these things will cost and what the reaction may be in the next election when their names are attached to a failed boondoggle.

 

 

This.

 

My letters to the senate/assembly (NOT my local reps, I am in district 24) and the Governor are basically promises to vote and donate against them if they dare pass these bills. 

 

And because Christie is silent, my vote next Tuesday is for Seth Grossman. 

Might want to throw a Ladies in front of the Gentlemen as there are a few on our side

 

It was sent to my MALE senators only.

...or at the very least, a redundancy.

 

Fun to see the grammar police pulled over once in awhile, but generally an excellent letter. Do we think they really read them?

 

 

Might want to throw a Ladies in front of the Gentlemen as there are a few on our side

 

 

My approach has been to steer away from "my rights," which they don't care a rats ass about and talk about practical considerations, like how much these things will cost and what the reaction may be in the next election when their names are attached to a failed boondoggle.

 

 

This.

 

My letters to the senate/assembly (NOT my local reps, I am in district 24) and the Governor are basically promises to vote and donate against them if they dare pass these bills. 

 

And because Christie is silent, my vote next Tuesday is for Seth Grossman. 

 

 

And the text of your letters are where?

 

Right. 

 

Now, back to the point, let's see you put up your letters so that we can cherry pick the best parts of all the submissions and put together an awesome response to these douches, ok??

And the text of your letters are where?

 

Right.

 

Now, back to the point, let's see you put up your letters so that we can cherry pick the best parts of all the submissions and put together an awesome response to these douches, ok??

Lets nit pick the law makers and not each other lol...

Lets nit pick the law makers and not each other lol...

 

Point was not to nitpick but to assemble a series of awesome responses to these irrational law makers.

And the text of your letters are where?

 

Right. 

 

Now, back to the point, let's see you put up your letters so that we can cherry pick the best parts of all the submissions and put together an awesome response to these douches, ok??

 

Not sure if that was meant as sarcasm, but the text of one of my letters was posted in the thread under "stop the bills." I've copied it below for your convenience.

 

I think a personalized email may also be in order. Not just to the Dems, but also to the Reps who may need talking points in speaking against the bills. Here's what I wrote.

When posted, this cuts off the full URL to the budget analysis, so here it is if you want to cut and paste into a letter. Just remove the space between http and ::

http ://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2012/Bills/S3000/2723_E1.HTM

 

I am writing to express concern on the economic impact of S2723, which you will be voting on tomorrow.

 

Looking at the fiscal estimate report, linked below, there is very little quantification of the potential costs of this bill, other than that they would be "significant" and would run into the 10s of millions of dollars.

 

http://www.njleg.sta...000/2723_E1.HTM

 

In the absence of compelling data on how the new firearm ID format and ammunition reporting system will fix defects in the current system, I would be hesitant to make an open ended fiscal commitment to this program. At the very least, I suggest that the requirement to reapply for the FID every 4 years under one option (but not the other) is unnecessarily burdensome, in light of the instant background check system, and will add undue costs.

 

I ask you to vote against this bill until its scope and costs can be better defined and until its sponsors can provide some concrete data on how this overarching new bureaucracy will contribute to public safety.

 

Please feel free to call me at xxx if you have any questions.

 

Sincerely,

This.

 

My letters to the senate/assembly (NOT my local reps, I am in district 24) and the Governor are basically promises to vote and donate against them if they dare pass these bills. 

 

And because Christie is silent, my vote next Tuesday is for Seth Grossman. 

Yes, Grossman gets my vote, as well.

He drove up from South Jersey to speak at one of the NJ2AS civic education meetings and is a great guy.

 

He has no chance of beating Christie, so it's not like we're going to hand the Dems a victory by nominating a weak contender. Instead, if we can just move his numbers up a noticeable blip, we'll send a very strong message.

 

We're in uncharted territory here and across the nation, due to two forces. First, I don't think the antis have EVER publicly laid out their primal and inchoate hatred for us as clearly as they have over the past few months. They've said a lot of very stupid things that have woken up a lot of otherwise oblivious voters. Second, the last time something like this happened was in 1994, before social media. Even then, the AWB cost many Dems their careers and scared off a generation of politicians from gun control. We have no idea yet how combustible this combination of factors will be and won't know its full impact until November 2014.

So far, we see a serious recall effort underway against the Dems who supported the anti-gun legislation in Colorado. We have a real chance of ousting Sweeney and possibly even Eustice and Wagner, who all have credible Republican opponents. And NY is going to be a bloodbath next year when everyone who voted for the SAFE Act north of Westchester will be covered in blood.

 

Whatever happens tomorrow, the war has just begun. We need to make this as miserably painful for our opponents as we possibly can, with the hoped for result that the survivors will start looking for other unpopular minorities to abuse.

...or at the very least, a redundancy.

 

Fun to see the grammar police pulled over once in awhile, but generally an excellent letter. Do we think they really read them?

No bashing the Grammar Cops or 

Just sent this to Sweeney, about the Senate vote tomorrow.

 

Senator Sweeney,

 

As I understand it the Senate will vote tomorrow on repressive gun control legislation that will only impact law abiding citizens.  At a time when the NJ State Police and NJ Administrators are blatantly NOT conforming to laws with regard to NICS checks and other gun related matters, our government seeks to foist more repressive measures on the GOOD citizens of NJ, rather than address crime and mental health.

Please withdraw these bills and set the government on a course to obey our current laws before attempting to tie the hands of NJ gun owners just a little tighter.

 

This is useless, capricious legislation and if passed we will do everything we can to force you into another line of work come November.