This incident experienced by one of the claimants in the DC gun ban case illustrates with staggering clarity who benefits from gun control laws:
Palmer said the lofty principles of individual liberties did not enter his mind 25 years ago when he and a male companion were threatened by a group of 19 or 20 young men on a deserted street in San Jose, Calif. “They shouted anti-gay epithets and they made death threats,” Palmer said. “We ran and they chased us.” Seconds later, Palmer pulled out a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol he owned legally and pointed it at the youths, whom he was certain had planned to harm or kill him and his companion in a gay bashing incident. “It stopped them in their tracks,” he said. “The leader of the group stared at the gun and said, ‘Do you have a permit for that?’ I said if they came any closer I would shoot. They backed off.”
Hilarious. A lynch mob becomes all serious about maintaining law and order when facing down the business end of a tool of self-defense.
Guiliani is working hard to appeal to the GOP base and swinging right on some key social issues such as guns. He still talks about "reasonable limits" which I would like to hear him explain how that jives with "shall not be infringed."
He was on the Sean Hannity show yesterday and a woman called up and asked if he was going to take away everyone's guns like the "extremists on the internet" are saying. He said (from memory) "I've always supported the right to own guns protected by the first amendment." He went to law school, right? He still doesn't understand the passion that exists for this issue. It was probably just a slip as he did several sentences later say the Second Amendment. He is trying which is good as he is polling as the GOP front runner. His sincerity is of course in question given his track record.
Simply put, he is no Ron Paul but he might be the only choice vs. Clinton or Obama.
New Jersey's rate of growth is below the national average as people flee the state in droves to escape the horrific tax rates and gun laws.
“The reasons people are leaving are basically economic. When you look at New Jersey compared to the rest of the country, there are more economic opportunities in places like North Carolina, which has a rapidly growing economy and more affordable housing."
The only exception to this trend are illegal immigrants who are arriving in tsunami levels who are a non-contributing drain on tax revenues. Things are just goint to get worse here.
In the mean time, the new contract Corzine has negotiated with the state employees union gives them an average raise of 35% over 4 years of the contract. Combine this with the fact that New Jersey has more state employees per capita than any other state and the fact that state employees are growing at a rate ten times faster than the population and you have a recipe for financial ruin.
