NEWS FROM THE NEW JERSEY COALITION FOR SELF DEFENSE
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – July 3, 2008
 
HELLER DECISION DEFLECTS 2A ATTACKS
NJCSD says, "We told you so!"

WASHINGTON TWP. - The New Jersey Coalition for Self Defense (NJCSD) applauds the June 26 Supreme Court ruling in Heller vs. DC, and on this Independence Day we wish to commend the SCOTUS justices who found for an Individual Right determination, as we predicted many weeks ago in our May 5 press release. "The court's decision insures that people in New Jersey will always have the right to defend themselves in their own homes, contrary to what New Jersey's elitist politicians have tried to force on us," said Robert Kreisler, President of the NJCSD.

"It's hard to read the memoirs and private letters of our Founders and come to any other conclusion,” said Kreisler. “I'm frankly astonished that there were dissenting justices who would seemingly declare the Constitution to be unconstitutional, using ‘modernity’ as a pretext for banning firearms.  Perhaps they ought to have been forced to write their opinions by quill pen and candle light.  This shows us just how far we've fallen from our First Principles of Liberty and that we have yet much work to do."

New Jersey's legislature is one of the few state governments whose leaders stubbornly cling to the idea that severe restrictions on firearms will eliminate societal ills like murder, rape and suicide. Evidence has abundantly shown, however, that laws making gun ownership needlessly expensive or inconvenient have failed to deter criminals and stem crime rates as proponents predicted.  To the contrary, it has been proven that oppressive gun laws tend to have an inverse effect, causing an increase in violent and property crime.  It's why an accelerating tidal wave of rights restoration has swept 37 out of 50 states – some 75% of America - have seen their crime rates drop through the passage of "shall issue" policies which restore the right of private citizens to obtain a carry permit for personal protection.

Last Thursday's ruling opens the door for many of New Jersey's gun laws to be challenged on a constitutional basis. "New Jersey is clearly backwards in its policies, but that comes as no surprise to the rest of the country.  It's at least one more reason why the state is a laughing stock for the nation, beyond our reputation for having raised political corruption to a fine art form. Any law that makes it difficult for a law-abiding person to keep a firearm for self-protection in the home is now fair game," said Arthur Rosbury-Yoder, the NJCSD Executive Director. "This decision is but a first step.  We're just getting warmed up, and we're ready for a fight.  It's what we've been waiting for a long, long time.”

The New Jersey Coalition for Self Defense is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to seeing that New Jersey residents have a fighting chance against crime. They can be found on the web at www.njcsd.org.