The handwriting on the wall

On Feb. 5, 2009, the Newark The Star-Ledger reported “People caught with machine guns or other illegal assault weapons will face harsher penalties under a bill signed into law today by Gov. Jon Corzine, who used the occasion to push for another bill that would restrict handgun purchases in New Jersey to one per month.

(www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/corzine_signs_harsher_gun_law.html)

“Under the new law, the unlawful possession of a machine gun or assault firearm is classified as a second-degree crime, carrying a penalty of five to 10 years in prison or a $150,000 fine,” the Star-Ledger reported. (It was previously a “third-degree crime.”)

“The measure was hailed by gun-control advocates like Bryan Miller, executive director of Ceasefire NJ, who said those weapons have no legitimate purpose.

“ ‘They’re meant to kill as many people as possible, as quickly as possible,’ Miller said. ‘They endanger all of us in the state of New Jersey.’”

Really? And when are you and your fellow mincing twits planning to root all these deadly devices out of Fort Dix, Mr. Miller?

If the government has them, the people need them, which is why the founders declared Americans’ right to own “every terrible instrument of the soldier ... shall not be infringed.”

“Before he signed the legislation Corzine stepped up pressure on the Legislature to approve the one-handgun-per-month limit, which stalled in the Senate in December after passing the Assembly,” the Star-Ledger continued, nine months ago. “New Jersey would be the fourth state to adopt such a limit, which supporters say will cut down on ‘straw’ buyers who purchase guns for criminals.

“ ‘It is time for us to get to my desk the one-handgun-a-month law,” Corzine said.

On Tuesday, Nov. 3, despite the fact he outspent his opponent by 3-to-1, blowing a jaw-dropping $20 million, (http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/10/29/corzine_outspending_christie_3_to_1.html) and further benefited from numerous personal appearances and endorsements by President Barack Obama himself, New Jersey voters kicked never-saw-a-tax-or-a-gun-ban-he-didn’t-love John Corzine out on his gun-grabbing ass.

Meanwhile, President Barack Obama, who told voters at campaign rallies at Duryea, Pa., and in Boise, Idaho, last year, “I’m not going to take your guns away,” turns out to have been lying as usual, points out Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

(www.ccrkba.org/pub/rkba/press-releases/obama.lied.to.gunowners.htm)

“Lawful guns owners have nothing to fear; I think people can take me at my word,” vowed candidate Obama — the same guy who pledged he’d win the war in Afghanistan unlike that loser George Bush; that he’d oversee the most “transparent” administration in history, posting every Democratic bill in plain English at least five days before a vote, etc.

But ABC News reported on Feb. 25, 2009 that Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder had just announced the administration will seek to restore the so-called “assault-weapons ban,” barring civilian ownership of certain semi-automatic rifles, which Dianne Feinstein and her staff find too ugly — a pointless, unconstitutional edict which cost Democrats control of Congress 15 years ago, and which a subsequent Congress wisely allowed to expire in 2004.

(http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6960824&page=1)

Save the next cabana at Retirement Shores for another one-term president, Mr. Corzine. ’Cause this guy is next.