The New Jersey Police State

"The bills are intended to prevent gun violence, protect witnesses and bolster police powers."

That sounds great, right? Let me translate: "The bills are intended to restrict the (heretofore) lawful use of firearms, encourage snitches, and make sure police can ruin your life if you don't have all the right "papers"."

"My sense is these criminals fail to follow the law," said Assemblyman Guy Gregg, R-Washington Township (Morris County). "You will be with this legislation creating criminals of people who did nothing wrong."

That's right, Guy. The government has no power over the law-abiding, only the criminal. So what do they do when they want more power? Turn law-abiding people into criminals; pass so many laws that you can't help but break some, even incidentally. Then, any time a person gets a little too much advocacy publicity, the thugs can make an example out of them.

Make no mistake, everyone is a potential target. I'm willing to bet that almost everyone has broken A law. Now all they need is a reason to bring you in.

Now for the obligatory blood-dance:

"The streets are running with blood from teenagers being shot by drive-bys," Payne said. "We need to look at ways to stop guns at their source. We need to stop guns from entering our areas."

The whole article talks about how the place is terrorized by gangs, which I'm pretty sure are composed of bad people, not inanimate objects.

"None of these bills are needed. (Registered gun owners) just have more hurdles to jump through to exercise their right to self-defense."

And I'm pretty sure that that's the point.