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Democrat,
Thoughts and prayers are worthless. Action is the only thing of value. [[link removed]]
12 days ago, we saw 10 innocent shoppers at a supermarket in Buffalo gunned down by a white supremacist. Two days ago, it was 19 beautiful schoolchildren and two educators shot to death in their elementary school classroom in Texas. Another day in America, another horrific act of gun violence enabled by the weak and feckless politicians kept in the holster of the gun lobby.
As a father and as a human being, my heart is broken for the families who are reeling from this incomprehensible tragedy. As an American, I am outraged and I am exhausted.
I am outraged that our nation remains the only one in which the senseless murder of innocent children and their teachers is even tolerated. I am exhausted that we have another double-digit death toll and one side – one side [[link removed]] – refuses to do anything.
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Yesterday I stood with Senators, Assembly members, community and educational leaders who are ready to do something — people who believe, as the majority of New Jerseyans do, that enough is enough and that we can end this senseless and relentless cycle of gun violence. Over a year ago, I introduced a comprehensive Gun Safety 3.0 package [[link removed]] and this moment demands that the Legislature finally take action.
These proposed laws are hardly revolutionary. They would:
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Mandate
safe
storage
of
guns;
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Ensure
those
seeking
to
buy
a
gun
are
actually
trained
in
the
safe
handling
of
that
gun;
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Give
police
tools
to
better
track
the
paths
of
firearms
used
to
commit
crimes;
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Prohibit
the
sale
of
weapons
that
can
bring
down
helicopters;
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Allow
us
to
hold
the
gun
industry
liable
for
the
carnage
it
has
enabled
I am calling upon the Senate President and the Assembly Speaker to put these bills up for a vote, so the people of New Jersey can see where every legislator stands on these common sense measures.
But I’m not stopping there.
I am also asking the Legislature to immediately put up every bill put forward by Republican legislators seeking to unravel our gun laws. I want every legislator to show whose side they have chosen to be on – the people of New Jersey’s or the gun lobby’s.
Let the people of New Jersey see who votes “yes” to legalizing hollow-point “cop killer” bullets [[link removed]] , allowing high-capacity ammunition magazines [[link removed]] , saying that churchgoers should be able to take their guns to services [[link removed]] , repealing our red-flag law [[link removed]] , and letting those known to have made violent threats, including domestic abusers, unfettered access to as many guns as they want. Let’s put every gun bill up to a vote, so the people of New Jersey can see who supports common sense gun safety and who wants New Jersey’s streets and communities to be flooded with guns.
Let’s see who the gun lobby banks on with their blood money.
I am proud of the progress we’ve made to become one of the nation’s leading states on gun safety. But I am not satisfied. Those who stood with me yesterday aren’t satisfied.
Let’s act now before our nation is lulled back into its slumber.
-Governor Phil Murphy
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