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Category: Second Amendment

Meet Alieta Eck

Jun. 12 Abortion, Alieta Eck, ObamaCare, Republican Party, Second Amendment, Special Election, U.S. Senate 5 comments

Meet the Candidates Series, Week of June 9, 2013

By Nicole Sanders | The Save Jersey Blog

Dr. EckAs part of my ongoing efforts to introduce candidates to the voting public, Save Jerseyans, I started a weekly column called Meet the Candidates.  In essence, it is a past day stump speech updated for the virtual world.

For this week’s column I am honored to introduce to you United States Senate Candidate Dr. Alieta Eck. Dr. Eck is running against fellow republican Steve Lonegan in the special election to fill late Senator Frank Lautenberg’s seat. This election is not only unique, it is historic because Governor Christie decided to hold the primary in August and the general in October so Save Jerseyans are going to be voting in two primaries and two generals this year.

Dr. Alieta Eck graduated from the Rutgers College of Pharmacy in New Jersey, went on to the St. Louis School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri and then studied Internal Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey and has been in private practice with her husband, Dr. John Eck, MD. in Piscataway, New Jersey since 1988.

Also, in full disclosure, Save Jerseyans, I am personally supporting Dr. Eck and helped collect signatures for her candidacy, but as with everything you read on this site, my views are my own and do not reflect Save Jersey‘s position.

My interview with Dr. Eck is below the fold:

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Op-Ed: Legislation Should “Address a Root Cause”

Jun. 11 Cultural Issues, Gerald Cardinale, Second Amendment, State Senate 1 comment

Measures to Curb Violent Acts Should Focus on Untreated Mental Illness

By: Senator Gerald Cardinale (R-Bergen, Passaic)

CardinaleAcross New Jersey thousands of residents who suffer from mental illness are not receiving the treatment they need. This tragedy destroys families and leads to exorbitant costs for institutionalization, substance abuse treatment and unemployment.

Untreated mental illness also presents a significant public safety risk.

If we truly want to address violence and prevent tragedies like the school massacre in Newtown, part of the solution demands we make untreated mental illness less prevalent and that we remove legal barriers to applying modern medicine to the problem. Legislation that I introduced (S2828) addresses this issue by authorizing courts to order patients with mental illness to partake in outpatient treatment. Currently, only six counties have taken advantage of legislation enacted in 2009 that enabled an involuntary outpatient treatment program.

For many who suffer from certain mental illnesses, the disease itself makes it impossible for them to recognize they are ill. Therefore, informed consent to treatment becomes an impossible and frustrating problem. Often these folks are in and out of institutions and too many commit acts of violence against themselves or others.

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More Gun Control Coming

Jun. 01 Second Amendment, State Senate 8 comments

10 New Bills Passed the State Senate This Past Week

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

Janet Napolitano Holding GunMore gun legislation quietly met State Senate approval on Thursday, Save Jerseyans.

They include:

(1) Legislation banning all firearms that are .50-caliber or higher

(2) A bill exempting firearms records from open records law inquiries (a good one!)

(3) One huge package combining eight other smaller bills to set up an instant background checks system for each and every New Jersey gun purchase

(4) A particularly evil measure which, to quote Sen. Steve Oroho, “would force New Jersey to divest pension funds from thriving American companies that legally sell firearms…”

All 10 bills now head to Governor Christie’s desk; click each link to read the text of the legislation as drafted at the time of passage, or visit NJ.com for a solid breakdown of which gun control measures, from which chamber, are headed where at present:

NJ Dems Punish Gun Retailers

May. 29 Second Amendment, State Senate, Steven Oroho 20 comments

State Senate Declares War on New Jersey Gun Manufacturers, Retailers with Draconian New Bill

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

Battle of Trenton

Get ready for this one, Save Jerseyans. Trenton’s war on your Second Amendment rights is ramping up.

N.J. Senate Democrats have decided to reinstate a clause in S2467/S2471 legislation which Senator Steve Oroho says “would force New Jersey to divest pension funds from thriving American companies that legally sell firearms…”

After sensibly agreeing to remove the requirement at a May 9 public meeting, Senate Democrats have reinstated the very clause that they publicly removed. I’m disappointed that public action taken by Democrats apparently doesn’t hold up behind closed doors.”

According to Oroho, S2467/S2471 “prohibits New Jersey from investing the state’s pension and annuity funds in companies manufacturing, importing and selling particular firearms for civilian use,” a move which would disincentivize gun manufacturers and retail companies like Wal-Mart from investing in New Jersey. Anyone who understands the irony underlying liberals’ anti-corporate attitudes knows that public employee pension funds are routinely invested in a variety of leftist pariahs including oil companies, too.

Good Lord! I wish these morons had been half as discriminating with Jon Corzine’s pension investments…

Click here to find your state senator’s contact information and let’em hear from you; a vote is reportedly scheduled for tomorrow. This is outrageous even by Trenton standards. It doesn’t even matter how you feel about gun rights. This is a nakedly ideological attack on an industry that will accomplish little except hurting our economy.

So How Did They Get a Gun?

May. 23 Second Amendment, Terrorism 5 comments

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

Union JackRemember, Save Jerseyans: we declared our independence from Great Britain for a reason.

There is no “no bill of rights” in the mother country, nor do they recognize a “right to bear arms” as we do here in the United States. Their entire conception of “rights” is radically different than our own. Consequently, in the United Kingdom, civilians are not permitted to possess semi automatic and automatic firearms including handguns. But has the UK’s uber-restrictive gun regulatory culture resulted in less gun violence?

Not really. The correlation has actually proven to be negative over the course of time, particularly since the European Council Directive of 18 June 1991 on Control of the Acquisition and Possession of Weapons went into effect (UK inner city crime increased 91% over the next four years); we had the nerve to point out this inconvenient truth here at Save Jersey shortly after the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting when, as I’m sure you’ll recall, our own Sen. Frank Lautenberg demanded sweeping new gun controls for the colonies.

Let’s look at a single example of how the UK gun experiment isn’t working as planned, like yesterday’s grizzly beheading of a British soldier by two assailants shouting   ‘Allah Akbar’ as they reportedly did the deed with a machette.

Guess what these nut jobs had on’em? A gun, folks.

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More Gun Laws Pass in NJ

May. 14 Second Amendment, State Senate 32 comments

10 New Bills Clear State Senate as Members Mock Second Amendment Rights

By Synnove Bakke | The Save Jersey Blog

gunThe Assembly majority Democrats passed a whopping 21 bills on gun control a few months ago.

The Governor and his Task force made their recommendations in between, and on Monday, the New Jersey Senate chose to pass ten new gun laws, preserving New Jersey’s reputation as the 2nd most restrictive state in the nation when it comes to private gun ownership. It’s now up to Governor Christie to sign off on the new legislation or veto’em. Many gun owners are worried that the Governor’s veto pen will remain tucked away in his pocket.

Among the legislation approved yesterday was a measure that would create a study commission on violence (S2430), a bill requiring the state to submit certain mental health records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (A3717), another to open a 180-day window for people to dispose of illegal guns (A3796), and a piece of legislation that would authorize law enforcement to impound cars used to transport illegal guns (S2468).

There are a whopping 161 bills on the Public Safety Committee’s web page, Save Jerseyans. Some have already been introduced, and some have already passed. Trying to maneuver around there, or even to simply make sense of the pages upon pages of gun laws, proves to be a truly mind-boggling exercise and a little stressful to say the least…

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Focus On Family, Not Legislation

May. 01 Crime, Cultural Issues, Second Amendment 6 comments

The Roots of Violence Can’t Be Addressed By New Gun Controls

By Dale Glading | The Save Jersey Blog

American FamilyPick up a newspaper in any major city in America and I guarantee that you will read about a recent rash of shootings or some other acts of violence. Tragically, this same scenario is now being played out in suburbs and small towns across America.

Yes, murders and other violent crimes are extremely troubling. However, they are also somewhat preventable.

Unfortunately, the cure won’t come easily or immediately. There simply isn’t a short-term fix for a problem that has been brewing for the past several generations.

I speak of the breakdown of the American family. Specifically, out-of-wedlock births.

Study after study shows that the best possible environment for raising a child is a stable, intact two-parent household. And by two parents I mean one father and one mother.

Similar studies also show that the number one predictor of life-long poverty is out-of-wedlock birth.

Tragically, more than 70% of African American births are currently out-of-wedlock. The statistics for Latinos (53.4%) and Whites (29%) are substantially lower, but climbing dramatically.

So who is to blame? The media? Hollywood?

Try men.

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Cops: Magazine Cap Useless!

Apr. 30 Second Amendment 6 comments

U.S. Police Don’t Think Magazine Capacity Regulations Will Stem Gun Violence

By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog

While the Trenton Dems are busy tugging at your heart strings, Save Jerseyans, I’m doing my best to appeal to your logic center. I’m sorry that they don’t respect you as much as I do.

Here is tonight’s question: do you really, truly want to rely on grieving parents or the politicians who exploit them to craft gun policy? I didn’t think so! Because you have a brain and prefer to use it. So let’s turn instead to law enforcement officials for a learned opinion on the matter.

PoliceOne.com recently conducted a survey of roughly 15,000 American law enforcement personnel; almost 96% of them didn’t think the type of legislation supported by New Jersey’s Democrat Assembly majority would make a damn bit of difference:

Gun Survey

Click here to read the full survey release so you don’t have to take my word on any of this, Save Jerseyans. Trust the boys in blue in their area of expertise!