CCRKBA TO NJ DEMOCRATS: ‘STOP TRYING TO DANCE AROUND COURTS’

BELLEVUE, WA – While Politico is reporting that New Jersey Democrats are scrambling to “protect and expand the state’s firearm restrictions” after the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the state’s ban on semiautomatic rifles is unconstitutional, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has a better idea: Stop trying to dance around court rulings and start trusting the citizens with their Second Amendment rights.

“New Jersey Democrats can no longer claim they’re just trying to protect the children or decrease crime,” CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb observed. “They’re obviously obsessed with restricting the rights of the citizens they’re supposed to be serving. Gov. Mikie Sherrill and her colleagues in the legislature need a refresher course in high school civics, because they can’t seem to understand that when a court declares a law to be unconstitutional, that law has always been unconstitutional, and they should stop trying to dream up ways to slither around the ruling.

“The Politico story mentioned a bill to mandate gun owners store their guns unloaded and locked inside their homes,” Gottlieb added. “That idea is already off the table, thanks to the 2008 Heller ruling, which Sherrill and her cronies evidently need to read again.”

Instead of cooking up more and different restrictions, Gottlieb suggested New Jersey lawmakers just get tough on criminals—especially repeat offenders—by locking them up for a very long time. People confined to jails and prisons aren’t on the streets committing robberies, assaults, burglaries, carjackings or homicides, he noted.

“What the Politico story reveals without really saying so is that Garden State Democrats are frustrated and furious the courts, and the Constitution, will not let them keep a regulatory stranglehold on the honest citizens of New Jersey,” Gottlieb said. “They’re just not taking this lesson to heart. The semi-auto ban, and the ban on original capacity magazines—which Democrats supported—have just been thrown out. There’s a lesson in that the Democrats are evidently just too stubborn to accept. They need to grow up, stop trying to be dictators, and acknowledge the right of the people is not subject to their petty personal prejudices against guns.”