State Assemblyman Upendra J. Chivukula, you are a biased idiot and out of touch. See you at the polls.

"let’s not go back to Dodge City and the Wild West" yeah.., lets make it a turkey shoot instead. ASSyman chivukula, another democratic, foreign moron who forgot what happened during the LA riots when shopkeepers were forced to defend their property with shotguns while the LAPD stood by and did nothing. and even stated "protect and serve' was just a motto"

You don't have my vote. You're a typical Dem trying to use recent acts of violence for your own advantage. I agree w/u, enforce the laws on the books, that's common sense. But the problem starts at home and if people are not educated from childhood about guns and then held accountible for their actions you can pass all the laws you want people will still use guns to kill. Plus you can't legislate against stupidity. I

The Assemblyman is simply the Dems sacrificial lamb in a District where he has no chance of winning.

“During one year, Canada had 144 deaths due to gun violence. Australia, 59. Great Britain, 19. United States of America: 9,369.”

It has been found that there is no correlation between firearms ownership and homicide and suicide rates, and many of the countries with the strictest firearms prohibitions have higher homicide and suicide rates than nations without such restrictions.

http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf

According to Smallarmssurvey.org, the United States ranks first (88.1) in per capita civilian firearms ownership per 100, so the casual observer would believe the U.S. would be in top 10 in murders, or at least the top twenty. However, the U.S. is not even in the top 30. The U.S. ranked the 35 in the World murder rate. In 2009 that came to 5.0 per 100.000 in 2009, and 4.8 in 2010.
Switzerland ranks third (45.7) civilian firearms ownership per 100, and it unlikely that military weapons kept in Swiss homes are included since they are property of the Swiss Government. Yet, their murder rate was an extremely low 0.66 per 100,000 in 2009.

By contrast, El Salvador ranked 92nd in civilian firearms ownership (5.8) per 100, so the casual observer would believe that they would not be in the top fifty murder rate. However, they ranked first in the world murder rate at a staggering 71 per 100,000 in 2009, second in murder rate in 2010 with 66 per 100,000 in 2010, and second in 2011 at 71 per 100,000. Honduras ranked 88th in firearm ownership per 100 and they were first in 2011 world murder rate at a staggering 86 per 100,000.

http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2007/en/Small-Arms-Survey-2007-Chapter-02-annexe-4-EN.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_rate

August 30, 2010 - SLOVAKIA - A gunman shot dead six members of a Roma family and another woman in the Slovak capital Bratislava before killing himself.

April 9, 2011 - NETHERLANDS - Tristan van der Vlis opened fire in the Ridderhof mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, south of Amsterdam, killing six before turning the gun on himself.
Please note that most of these mass shootings occurred in nations with strict gun control laws.

Chivakula is trying to build his reputation as a socialist by championing civilian dis-arming made popular by other tyrants (Mao, Marx, Lenin, Hitler) that resulted in hundreds of millions of deaths. The right to bear arms incurs a very small cost when compared to the unregulated power of tyrannical regimes such as King George III. The right to bear arms provides the citizens the power to defend our lives, our families, and our country.

First Assemblyman you should do your research before writing a piece like this, you cite the myth of the lawless wild west, which if you look it up you will find never actually happened.

Your call to "common sense" is telling, as you are presenting a position without any supporting facts. You simply state "what everybody knows" and "what others have said" and present them as established facts.

You claim that more conceal carry will result in more danger, I challenge you to present a single study that shows that increase in injures and deaths in states that have increase CCW permit issuance. Further I would love to see your stats on the vast number of people killed by legally owned assault weapons that shows banning them is common sense.

If you cant provide real information then you are simply using the fear created by tragic event to promote a platform that is fed to you by your "bosses" in the party, and for that you should ashamed.

“Gun control proponents tout the recent shootings in Colorado and Wisconsin as reasons for limits on the sale of bullets, high-volume magazines, and a common sense ban on assault weapons.”
When I purchased my AR-15 over thirty years ago no one called it a “Assault Weapon” or “Killing Machine” “Battlefield Weapon,” “Rapid Fire Weapon” Etc. It was the semi-auto (Fires one shot per one pull of the trigger) version of the full-auto (Fires continuously as long as the trigger is pulled) M-16, but citizen disarmament zealots and organizations found that they could gain support for gun bans through semantics. For example, they called affordable handguns “Saturday Night Specials” or “Junk Guns.” So, that started calling AR-15s and the like “Assault Style Weapons” and later just “Assault Weapons” in an attempt to deceive the public into believing that they were advocating banning machine guns. As Josh Sugarmann, the executive director and founder of the Violence Policy Center, put it in Assault Weapons and Accessories in America, 1988, “The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.”

Additionally, a study funded by the Department of Justice concluded, “Should it be renewed, the ban’s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement. AWs were rarely used in gun crimes even before the ban.”

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/204431.pdf
In an April 5, 1996, column in the Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer, who forthrightly supports total gun prohibition, wrote, "Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic — purely symbolic — move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation."
You are far more likely to be killed with a weapon other than a firearm than one of those so called “Assault Weapons” or any other rifle.
Of course, citizen disarmament zealots and organizations ignore these inconvenient facts because they are trying to frighten the public into banning all firearms one class of weapon at a time.

“So, having every American arm him or herself with a concealed weapon is unnecessary and will actually increase danger — let’s not go back to Dodge City and the Wild West.”

The inconvenient fact is our right to Keep and BEAR arms have been increasingly restored over last several years and more citizens are now free to carry firearms in more places since the year 1900. Yet, homicides, including homicides with firearms, as well as all other violent crime have been decreasing since 2006. Moreover, after a dramatic increase in firearms sales and ownership after the last Presidential election including an increase in first time firearms purchases and an increase in firearms carry permits, citizen disarmament zealots and organizations predicted that there would be a corresponding increase in homicides and other violent crime. However, the U.S. homicide rate decreased from 5.0 per 100,000 in 2009 to 4.8 per 100,000 in 2010 and all other violent crime decreased as well.

Preliminary data from 2011 shows all Violent Crime was down 6.4%, Murder down 5.7%, Rape down 5.1%, Robbery down 7.7%, and Aggravated Assault down 5.9%.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10tbl04.xls

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-2010/tables/10shrtbl08.xls

http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/december/crime-stats_121911/crime-stats_121911

If readers are upset by this kind of inflamitory rhetoric by democrats to further restrict our rights, please consider joining the Union County Tea Party

The Assemblyman would have done well to look at what New Jersey's gun control laws have done to the State. When the drive to enact gun controls began in the Garden State, there were just 8,849 violent crimes. For the last year available, 2010, there were 27,055. And it is quite easy to demonstrate that gun controls are responsible for the bulk of that increase.

On a wider scale, take Western Europe, less the United Kingdom, against the United States. Western Europe has very restrictive gun laws, while the United States, whose numbers I will place in parentheses immediately after the European numbers, has wide areas with relatively moderate gun laws.

In 2010, the 440,600,000 (309,000,000) Western Europeans had 4,728,875 (1,246,248) violent crimes for a violent crime rate of 1072.6 (403.6) per 100,000 population. Western Europe had at least 26,171 (12,996) murders, for a rate of 6.0 (4.2) per 100,000 population.

Turning to England, the official number is 2,203,000 "violent incidents against adults" against 1,246,248 violent crimes against all ages of Americans. "Gun Free England" has a violent crime rate of 4,156.6 per 100,000 adults, against the United States 403.6 for all ages.

Now, what sane person would care to live in these "crime free, gun free paradises" when even New Jersey has a far lower crime rate. Not nearly as low as US States with more permissive gun laws, but lower than Europe.

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The 2nd Amendment means what it says. I am tired of Democrat claptrap on this issue. Repeal the 2nd Amendment or shut up and go away.

Some people don't like facts. Insulting other people only proves they are wrong. They have no arguments to defend their position. The people who have gun are criminals against society,

Let me relate a story the parents of a friend of mine told me when I was younger. They escaped Poland to England during the early days of WW II. When the Nazis invaded Poland the first thing they did was to confiscate all the firearms. If you did not turn them in or if they found them in your possession you went to the concentration camp. You remember hearing about those places if you went to school before this generation. This is what a totalitarian regime does so to gain total control of a population. Sure, let's all surrender our firearms and sing goombaya around the fireside. Anyone for cool-aid? If you read this and understand what I am saying-good for you. If you can't-well we just can't fix stupid!

Whackos, all of you. Keep stocking up those rations in your underground shelters for when "the gov't comes". My favorite is the prying it from my cold dead hands. Actually the comment saying fists cause more murders than guns had me almost wet myself. The 2nd amendment refers to a well regulated militia. Have all the muskets you'd like. Even good ole boy Scalia has just said there are situations where more
control is in order. He sure is a lefty liberal that Scalia. Right 3M? Gtg, have to explain to the kids why I'm laughing at my computer screen.

"Democrats have historically voted for gun control. Republicans have historically voted against it."
Put another way, Democrats historically try to disarm the victims of gun violence and make them more dependent on government (law enforcement). Republicans have historically tried to allow these same victims their right to defend themselves as guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
Which group is acting your best interest and which is acting in their best interest.
"It is in the best interest of politicians (and other criminals) that the public be disarmed."

Nuts,
Do you have a fire extenguisher in your home?

Let me guess, the gun whackos will say after ANOTHER mass shooter, this time on the streets of Manhatten, "now's not the time to discuss this, let the dead be mourned". Cowards.

Denying collectors and sportsmen will not prevent deranged people from harming others. In fact, it shows a lack of solicitude for the agrieved and mentally ill when the blanket policy or law is thought to be sufficient.

its NOT about "collecting' or sports, its about defense, you dumas. muskets. ya know , one of these days youre going to hear a loud "pop"... it wont be a musket, it will be you pulling your head out of your arse! heres a disturbing possibility.:
http://offgridsurvival.com/shtfprepperthreats/

your wife doesnt seem to mind one bit. and the link has some very salient points. , i dont own a uzi, just a shotgun.

heres another interesting link, no "Y.P.A.N," its not a.. gasp !"prepper" thang. save your energy for when you have to get a ride to the polls from your one friend to cast your vote for obama. because hes doing SUCH a good job. read a book once in a while, ..especially one called 'cloward=piven" strategy.

YPAN. wtf are you smoking? ..bin laden.. wha?.. maybe its just sour grapes on your part because maybe you CANT , as a felon,OWN a gun. that makes much more sense, because YOU sure arent... thank you for your translation, im sure we would have never known what "SHTF" meant otherwise. so in essence, your position is that to own a gun for home defense, i must be nuts. because obviously, i also must have an uzi, and use male enhancement pills. or something. interesting that you should pick penis size , of all things to try to bolster your argument. someone must not be happy with the size of your gun, eh? do you live in government assisted (i.e. free) housing or something? or maybe are on some kind of government program for "special' people?..just wondering . theres def SOMETHING wrong with you. but hey,.. i could be wrong, my other guess was that you live in mommies basement and had to crack her birth-day passcode to use her computer at night while shes asleep... go back to bed, johnny mildew, you are past your curfew.

YPAN, obama. man, i have YOU peggged. i guess YOU know where he was born, because neither I nor the american people know . about that, or much else, except that hes a dyed in the wool marxist. boy, you ARE a DUMAS. (google that one bright-boy) ..oh, i hear mommie calling you, the cookies are ready! make sure she powders your scrotum just the way you like it when she changes your di-di's. wouldnt want baby to chaf his ass, now would we?

what? your post was so intellectual (Hey rush, they now have male enhancements that can easily be prescribed, so losing an Uzi or 2 shouldn't hurt your psyche too much. Laughing at another small wheen whacko. ) that i felt compelled to reply in kind. and i think it hit a nerve. pointing out that some douchebag lives with mommy is psych test material? sometimes ya just have to call a spade a spade, moron. go back and demand that mommy powder your doughnuts!, someone is getting a little cranky.

YPAN" awwe.. another warm fuzzy liberal after all! imagine my surprise. anger? only that mouthbreathers like you steal the same air as me. your wife brings me much more comfort than any shotgun ever could. and she swallowed all my "bullets' oh ..heads up. sometimes foreign and different doesnt mean a week in fun-filled paris, MORON. its a safe bet youve never served your country.or seen any "diversity, aside from what you watch om MSNBC, (usually accompanied by frantic masturbation)..i suspect your world-view is somewhat at a disparity with reality . it must be nice in mommies basement, ..just sayin"

jim, thank you for your concern. and, respectfully, i disagree. i dont own a glock. ypan, has offered to clean my cock though.

sorry YPAN, i didnt realize i was conducting a grammar class here. oh,..nothing wrong with the "nether region'! i love popping your wifes! WE laugh and laugh. the only thing exploding is .. well ask your wife... she loved it

thats all you got? and, so sorry if the salty lingo offended you, i guess you want to ban THAT next.? however if you peruse several previous posts, you will notice that the personal attack regarding body parts and the like originated with YOU. typical liberal. likes to dish it out, but then cries like a little be-yotch. calling a douchebag out doesnt a bad citizen make. its apparent that you were one of those kids that got picked on by the other special ed kids at school, werent you?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/20/gun-control-and-the-security-illusion/

since you seemed to like my links so much..

Additional gun control is nothing more than a "feel good" response to problems. It WILL NOT get illegal firearms off the streets. Mass shootings make headline news, but it's really insignificant in the grand scheme of things. 19 shootings in Chicago this weekend alone! The fact of the matter is that we can make it harder for the average joe to buy a gun, but it's a total waste of time. Sorry, but it's true.

We want illegal guns off the streets, but we are opposed to stop and frisk measures. We have this fairy tale notion that more gun control will solve our problems, but our nation's gun laws carry some harsh penalties and it does not stop the violence. Time to look else where, we are just spinning our wheels.

keep your guns "on a range" sheesh. i guess you people really must think you are safe or something. i agree with keeping your guns locked and "child-safed" (if you have children) but having them on the 'range' isnt going to help you when some ' have -nots" are breaking in your house. however thats not your real agenda, is it? it would appear that you would like nothing better than for all guns to be banned. in YPANS case, i suspect its just sour grapes because his mommy wont "let him play with them' due to his obvious retardation. we have the laws on the books already. enforce them, if not look to nyc where the little 'dictator" has not already banned guns (how did that work out?) but knives as well ..not to mention "big gulps" ...part of the resisitance to any type of additional gun 'control" is that type of asinine micro management and further erosion of our current rights and liberties due to the actions of a few unhinged individuals. "for our own good".. it just never stops, and with this current adminstration its not likely to. c'mon,.. that jackass bloomberg outlawed soft drinks fercrissakes!. dont any of you see the bigger picture? take a look at whats happening in the UK. they have opened their doors to islamic immigrants,( who are draining the country dry like the parasites they truly are,) disarmed their citizens and now they are paying the price. think it cant happen here?.. wake up sheeple!

ypan, a "knife to a gun fight" funny analogy coming from a fool who wants to ban guns. and i noticed you just had to add "funny COLORED' folks in there, thats what its really about. ill bet you wring your lilly-white hands in guilty white anguish everytime you read a newspaper. oh, im not too worried about what your family and friend think, im pretty sure they all know what a fool YOU are. it sad that this is how pathetic your sad little life is, trolling on a aol patch, trying to make somone else (besides you that it) THINK that youre the smartest person in the room. hey its lunchtime when does mommy come down to the basement with your little cheese sandwhiches, (with the crusts cut off, no doubt) oh,..keep trying to slyly appeal to the admin to delete my posts, you merely come across as a whiny little pissant. that you truly are.

uh oh, the 'realist' has spoken,.. obviously another friend coming to YPAN-the-troll's rescue. ok, ill bite. i guess there is NO possibility of this EVER happening, right. and im 'angry' because i know better...the room cleared? wha..? "inherit the wind"? really, go ahead and watch some more tv, its clearly where you get your "insider" knowledge. because islamists are really, deep down great people, right?.. except YOU wouldnt want em as neighbors, would you? y.p.a.n hasnt gotten to me,princess,, its clear hes a lost cause. but he'd like for HIS idiotic ideals to be made into laws. which would prevent YOU from defending your life and/or property. but thats such an outlandish scenario, isnt it? the have-nots would never break into your lkittle kitsch-filled house, now would they? and as for his retardation, well i suggest yuo read his posts. hes a MORON. (theres that word again, ..oh dear!)

I do not believe the people in charge of our government are acting on behalf of the American people. You certainly have the right to remain silent and die. But one thing is for certain…dont attempt to deprive ME of the right to defend myself and my family. no one besides yourself is going to make the world a safe place for you… your participation is now required for survival.