Listen to the testimony on nj.gov starting at 4:37:30.
Assemblywoman Joan Quigley quotes from yesterday's testimony regarding her bill:
"There are too many people that can legitimately buy guns, do so, and then lose them and then in a very short time, those guns are used in homicides."
"I think that anybody who really wants more than 12 guns a year has got a problem."
"If you're not a collector, you're not in law enforcement and you're not a dealer, I'm sorry if this bill inconveniences you.
"...but if you need more than 12 guns a year, live with a little inconvenience."
Assemblyman Michael Carroll's response, "What can one say to that?" "Your logic is simply blinding..."
Which sparked uproarious laughter and applause from the Assembly.
Carroll was excellent on how the party of the people doesn't represent the people nor the Constitution.
More from Carroll speaking about his own experience with firearms "...raised by a mother who thought guns where an instrument of the Devil ala our sponsor." Which brought more laughter.
Carroll again on shooting with friends from Virginia,
"The looks of disdain and disgust on the faces of freedom loving folk everywhere really disgust me. To hail from New Jersey represents a mark of profound shame. They shake their heads and they look at me as if I've lost my mind. Why? They ask, "Would someone who values freedom even think of living in such a repressive state?" And Mr. Speaker, at this time, with the Legislature about to embarrass the state once again, I sometimes wonder why myself."
"Somehow the rest of the country gets along just fine respecting the rights of the people to have arms.
Why pray tell is it always New Jersey's place to act with stupidity? Just when you think the state policy can't get any sillier, along comes a policy like this, making us yet again, an interstate laughing stock.
Apparently, some folks can't get it through their heads that other folks like to shoot even more than twelve guns a year."
"Instead they insist on imposing even more Draconian restrictions upon freedom. This bill represents yet another effort to needlessly harass law-abiding citizens. Since it cannot be defended logically, the only possible conclusion a rational observer can arrive, is it's purpose is just that…to make life difficult for gun owners perhaps with the hope they move to freedom loving states like Pennsylvania leaving New Jersey a little utopia where only criminals and cops possess guns.
"Mr. Speaker put simply, if …and the rest of the founders trusted the people why doesn't Quigley?" "For what it's worth Mr. Speaker; it is a profound distrust of the people. It can be explained no other way."
…(the bill) is yet another anti-freedom step.
"Many of the supporters of this proposal in their honest moments would happily support an outright ban on private firearms."
Assemblywoman Joan Quigley quotes from yesterday's testimony regarding her bill:
"There are too many people that can legitimately buy guns, do so, and then lose them and then in a very short time, those guns are used in homicides."
"I think that anybody who really wants more than 12 guns a year has got a problem."
"If you're not a collector, you're not in law enforcement and you're not a dealer, I'm sorry if this bill inconveniences you.
"...but if you need more than 12 guns a year, live with a little inconvenience."
Assemblyman Michael Carroll's response, "What can one say to that?" "Your logic is simply blinding..."
Which sparked uproarious laughter and applause from the Assembly.
Carroll was excellent on how the party of the people doesn't represent the people nor the Constitution.
More from Carroll speaking about his own experience with firearms "...raised by a mother who thought guns where an instrument of the Devil ala our sponsor." Which brought more laughter.
Carroll again on shooting with friends from Virginia,
"The looks of disdain and disgust on the faces of freedom loving folk everywhere really disgust me. To hail from New Jersey represents a mark of profound shame. They shake their heads and they look at me as if I've lost my mind. Why? They ask, "Would someone who values freedom even think of living in such a repressive state?" And Mr. Speaker, at this time, with the Legislature about to embarrass the state once again, I sometimes wonder why myself."
"Somehow the rest of the country gets along just fine respecting the rights of the people to have arms.
Why pray tell is it always New Jersey's place to act with stupidity? Just when you think the state policy can't get any sillier, along comes a policy like this, making us yet again, an interstate laughing stock.
Apparently, some folks can't get it through their heads that other folks like to shoot even more than twelve guns a year."
"Instead they insist on imposing even more Draconian restrictions upon freedom. This bill represents yet another effort to needlessly harass law-abiding citizens. Since it cannot be defended logically, the only possible conclusion a rational observer can arrive, is it's purpose is just that…to make life difficult for gun owners perhaps with the hope they move to freedom loving states like Pennsylvania leaving New Jersey a little utopia where only criminals and cops possess guns.
"Mr. Speaker put simply, if …and the rest of the founders trusted the people why doesn't Quigley?" "For what it's worth Mr. Speaker; it is a profound distrust of the people. It can be explained no other way."
…(the bill) is yet another anti-freedom step.
"Many of the supporters of this proposal in their honest moments would happily support an outright ban on private firearms."
