GUN OWNERS STILL CAN'T DEFEND THEIR FAMILIES IN NJ! NJ GOP CHAIR STEINHARDT OP-ED MISSES CALLING FOR CCW!
by Black Wire Media Wed. Oct. 7, 2020 www.cnjfo.com/join-us
You're welcome Doug Steinhardt! As GOP Chair in New Jersey it only took THREE MONTHS to follow CNJFO's lead from our July 1st letter to Governor Murphy and NJSP Superintendent Pat Callahan, part of which called for an end to plea bargaining violent crimes involving firearms and closing the revolving door of the broken NJ justice system that enables recidivist criminal scumbags to prey upon a defenseless society! A defenseless society that was created by decades of legislative "FEEL-GOOD" gun laws that don't stop violent crimes and only punish legal firearm owners.
The demonstrated, continued ineptitude and utter disregard by (mostly) both sides of the aisle for self defense outside of the home or business you own, by use of a firearm in public, to ward-off the very felonious acts perpetrated by this same criminal element that has NO FEAR of an unarmed victim is as plain as the nose on your face! We congratulate your attempt at recognizing the multi-generational gang violence reality that is spilling out from our overrun cities (Trenton, Camden, Newark, et-al) into suburbia. Now it's time to stand with us and spend some political capital by calling for carry permits. Now is the time to stop running away from CNJFO's version of "Common Sense Gun Law" where MORE GUNS MEANS LESS CRIME!
ONE MILLION NJ gun owners, roughly 17% of the voting age population in this state of 9 million, are awaiting true leadership that recognizes residents have the right to defend themselves in public. These figures are conservative, as they're quoted from the ten year old 2010 census. And that number just grew by well over 13.5% with the addition of 135,000-plus newly-minted NJ Firearms Purchaser ID Card holders processed through an antiquated, overrun, undermanned permitting system that was SHUT DOWN several times by a Governor that HATES GUNS!
Hell, all it has to do is rain hard and the NJSP portal to the national, 24-hour NICS background check system has the plug pulled for firearms purchasing! Every possible gimmick is used in this state to DENY 2A RIGHTS!
It's long past time to disregard the screeching red-shirted Karens from Moms Demand Action that get paid to attend statehouse committee hearings and instead listen to the people that will actually VOTE TO KEEP THEIR GUNS! A million or more potential GOP votes are being squandered every election cycle because the NJ GOP refuses to distinguish itself from the Democrats giving voters no reason to show up at the polls.
You really want change Doug? Take a firm, unequivocal stand for 2A rights and the GOP will have majorities in both houses and the Governor's mansion. The only true solution is to invite 2A folks to the table. We demand a seat at that table (we stated THAT in our letter too!) rather than being talked about (in the last paragraph of an Op-Ed like we’re sitting at the kiddie table)! Then maybe we'll finally stop persecuting NJ gun owners and get firearms carry back in one of the Country's original 13 Colonies!
Your Op-Ed in "Save Jersey" ( http://savejersey.com/.../crime-guns-reoffending.../... ) is expertly timed to coincide with the arrival of New Jersey's forced mail-in election balloting. So you're right---it IS time to "do something different" other than finger-point. It's time to give victims a fighting chance by calling for permitted firearms carry by ALL legal NJ gun owners. It's time to LEAD!
