New Jersey needs to be held in example of gun control.

New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the nation; if the number of weapons on the street increased it would be devastating. The record is completely clear; where there are laws that have limited the number of guns on the street IN THE USA there is less violence. Doesn't matter if the NRA tries to corrupt the gun laws of New Jersey from this point forward, THE RECORD is clear!

POSTED ON THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2009 1:16 PM

BY HERB JACKSON

New Jersey ranked near the bottom of a ranking of violent deaths from guns in a report released this week by a group committed to tougher gun control.

The Violence Policy Center concluded that states with high gun ownership and weak gun laws have the highest rates of gun deaths.

New Jersey, which at 11 percent of households has the nation’s third-lowest gun ownership rate, ranked 45th in the rate of gun deaths. There were 5.68 gun deaths per 100,000 people in New Jersey in 2006, the center said.

Louisiana, where 46 percent of households have guns, had the highest gun death rate of”; 19.58. Following it were Alabama (57 percent ownership, 16.99 deaths) and Alaska (61 percent ownership, 16.38 deaths).

Hawaii ranked lowest, with guns in 10 percent of households and a death rate of 2.58 per 100,000 people, followed by Massachusetts (13 percent ownership, 3.28 deaths) and Rhode Island (13 percent ownership, 4.43 deaths).

Death rates came from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Control and Prevention. The gun ownership rates came from a 2005 report published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which relied on a 2002 survey by the CDC of 240,735 adults nationwide.

New Jersey has some of the toughest gun laws in the country. They are so tough that last year Governor Christi pardoned a man convicted of breaking the law while legally transporting guns when he was moving. 

In New Jersey, gun owners are not suppose to stop for errands when transporting their weapons to a shooting gallery.

The New Jersey laws make gun ownership inconvenient enough to reduce the number in the state. Reducing the number of guns in the state reduces the gun deaths in the state. New Jersey is a good neighbor to New York State. Can't say that for all of them.

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30, 2013, 5:14 PM

...they’re forced to navigate a tangled web of regulations, (click here) under threat of 10-year jail sentences, for “crimes” like stopping for food, fuel or medical treatment while traveling to the range.

Don’t believe it? Just ask Governor Christie, who in 2010 commuted the seven-year prison sentence of entrepreneur Brian Aitken, convicted of transporting legal firearms while relocating to the Garden State. That’s just how it is for New Jersey’s million law-abiding gun owners....