Platkin Bewails Gun Violence Deaths in Paterson
This weekend we saw gun violence impact communities across our country – and tragically our own state was not immune. Last night, as we celebrated our nation’s independence, the City of Paterson experienced two shooting incidents that resulted in the senseless loss of two young lives, and injuries to five other young people. While the men and women of the Paterson Police Department under the leadership of Officer in Charge Abbassi work with our law enforcement partners to bring the perpetrators to justice – and make no mistake, we will bring them to justice – we must also continue our work to prevent and heal the trauma brought upon our communities as a result of gun violence.
I am steadfast in my commitment to ending gun violence in our state. The Office of the Attorney General – and the New Jersey Law Enforcement community more broadly – will not rest until our residents can live their lives free of the threat of gun violence erupting in our neighborhoods, in our houses of worship, in our schools, in our shopping centers, at our family celebrations, and everywhere else that we gather to go about our everyday lives. The people of this state – and our nation – deserve better and I will continue to use every resource and authority of my office to deliver for them.
AG Platkin, along with his boss, Governor KNUCKLEHEAD, are delusional if they ever think they will end gun violence in this state. Platkin talks about celebrating our independence on July 4th. That independence was gotten through the uninfringed right to keep and bear arms without government intervention. The British were attempting to regulate and confiscate the firearms of the people, and found out the hard way that it will never work.
Violent criminals will get firearms by any means necessary. Curtailing lawful gun owners or lawful prospective gun owners’ rights to access firearms without jumping through all of the infringement hoops in getting a firearm in NJ, violates the constitutional and human rights of lawful gun owners & those wishing to purchase firearms for SELF-DEFENSE against violent armed criminals. The state cannot have enough police to stop violent gun crime. FBI, DOJ & even CDC statistics show that 1-2 Million violent gun crimes are stopped each year by armed law-abiding citizens. When the former Chief of Police of Detroit tells the residents of that city to go out and buy firearms for their own protection because the police can’t protect them, there is a serious problem with governance and policing. And, that seems to permeate New Jersey as well.
Remember this: In a violent crime involving guns used by criminals, seconds count in your own self-defense, when police are minutes away. According to police websites, it takes 11 minutes on average nationwide to arrive at a violent gun crime scene. People need to be able to lawfully obtain firearms for their own self-defense without jumping through all kinds of hoops in New Jersey. The first step is to eliminate the anti-gun statute, NJSA 2C:58-3 (c) which everyone must go through their local chief of police to obtain a gun permit application and then have it approved by the chief. Of course, the chief rarely approves it. Why? Because the application process is unconstitutionally subjective and the chief doesn’t even know who you are other than what’s on paper. This is how the Nazis came to power through their 1938 Nazi Weapons Law. Only members of the Party could own firearms.
Another talking liberal whining and looking at legal, law abiding gun owners as the cause of gun violence.
Not addressed is the soft on crime liberal DA’s failing to prosecute criminal behavior.
Gun control laws are already in place. Further gun restrictions only lead to more armed robberies and higher murder rates, as law abiding citizens are prevented from defending themselves.
Fact is, people who have never fired a shot in their lives do not hesitate to limit clips, have never hunted or have never faced a life or death situation.
Further, if Police were not treated as criminal and allowed to perform their jobs properly gun violence would decrease
Spouting the same old rhetoric about gun control allows those like Platkin to vent emotions, grandstand and seem enlightened.
If current gun laws and strict criminal penalties would be enforced Platkin and others like him would not be very relevant.