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Smart Gun Law Endangering Civilians While Exemptin
Josey1
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Citizen's Group Blasts New Jersey Legislation For Endangering
Civilians While Exempting Police
To: State Desk
Contact: New Jersey Coalition for Self Defense, 732-247-2282
NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ, Dec. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is
a statement from the New Jersey Coalition for Self Defense
concerning Governor McGreevy's signature on the "Smart Gun"
legislation:
Governor James McGreevy signed into law legislation that will
make New Jersey citizens guinea pigs for unproven technology. This
action will cost more New Jersey citizen's lives than it will ever
save.
The so called "Smart Gun" legislation will eventually restrict
New Jersey citizen's choice of firearms to only those unproven
"smart guns", while at the same time exempting the police. We can
only wonder why the New Jersey Legislature has forced the civilian
population to be the beta testers for equipment that our lives may
someday depend upon.
A principle of engineering states that a simpler mechanism is
always more reliable than a more complex one. Therefore, we are
extremely skeptical that adding more complexity into firearm design
will ever make them safer or more reliable.
In light of this, we can predict that it will be only a matter
of time till you see headlines similar to "Mother dies defending
her children during home invasion due to dead battery", or the
failure of any other of a number of parts related to the
personalization technology.
We would like to remind New Jersey readers and legislators that
law abiding Americans use their firearms more than two million
times a year to stop serious criminal attacks, and that according
to the New Jersey Department of Health, there were zero children
killed in firearms accidents in NJ during 1998 and 1999, the only
years for which these statistics are available.
This strongly suggests that the new bill is less about gun
safety, and is more about promoting "feel good" legislation that
ultimately does not hold water when the consequences are examined.
It is yet another example of the misguided belief that adding
layers of unnecessary technology or legislation into citizen's
lives somehow solves something.
On behalf of the responsible, law abiding citizens of New
Jersey, we are offended by the dual standard and the implication
that somehow our lives are less precious than those of our fine law
enforcement officers, who have been granted exemption from this
legislation due to reliability concerns. When this technology is
good enough for the police, then and only then will we consider it
worthy for our use as well.
The New Jersey Coalition for Self Defense is a volunteer
citizen's non-profit organization, whose purpose is to provide
public policy leadership and public service education concerning
issues related to a person's fundamental Human Right of
self-defense.
http://www.usnewswire.com
-0-
/U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/
12/30 16:30
Copyright 2002, U.S. Newswire
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/qtr1_2003/1230-112.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Civilians While Exempting Police
To: State Desk
Contact: New Jersey Coalition for Self Defense, 732-247-2282
NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ, Dec. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is
a statement from the New Jersey Coalition for Self Defense
concerning Governor McGreevy's signature on the "Smart Gun"
legislation:
Governor James McGreevy signed into law legislation that will
make New Jersey citizens guinea pigs for unproven technology. This
action will cost more New Jersey citizen's lives than it will ever
save.
The so called "Smart Gun" legislation will eventually restrict
New Jersey citizen's choice of firearms to only those unproven
"smart guns", while at the same time exempting the police. We can
only wonder why the New Jersey Legislature has forced the civilian
population to be the beta testers for equipment that our lives may
someday depend upon.
A principle of engineering states that a simpler mechanism is
always more reliable than a more complex one. Therefore, we are
extremely skeptical that adding more complexity into firearm design
will ever make them safer or more reliable.
In light of this, we can predict that it will be only a matter
of time till you see headlines similar to "Mother dies defending
her children during home invasion due to dead battery", or the
failure of any other of a number of parts related to the
personalization technology.
We would like to remind New Jersey readers and legislators that
law abiding Americans use their firearms more than two million
times a year to stop serious criminal attacks, and that according
to the New Jersey Department of Health, there were zero children
killed in firearms accidents in NJ during 1998 and 1999, the only
years for which these statistics are available.
This strongly suggests that the new bill is less about gun
safety, and is more about promoting "feel good" legislation that
ultimately does not hold water when the consequences are examined.
It is yet another example of the misguided belief that adding
layers of unnecessary technology or legislation into citizen's
lives somehow solves something.
On behalf of the responsible, law abiding citizens of New
Jersey, we are offended by the dual standard and the implication
that somehow our lives are less precious than those of our fine law
enforcement officers, who have been granted exemption from this
legislation due to reliability concerns. When this technology is
good enough for the police, then and only then will we consider it
worthy for our use as well.
The New Jersey Coalition for Self Defense is a volunteer
citizen's non-profit organization, whose purpose is to provide
public policy leadership and public service education concerning
issues related to a person's fundamental Human Right of
self-defense.
http://www.usnewswire.com
-0-
/U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/
12/30 16:30
Copyright 2002, U.S. Newswire
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/qtr1_2003/1230-112.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878