The New Jersey state legislature is now considering a bill that would limit handgun purchases in the state to one a month. Similar legislation has been considered, but not passed, in neighbouring Pennsylvania.
The National Rifle Association, home of the armed zealots of the land, will of course say that this unnecessarily restricts a citizen's "right" to possess as much fire power as he or she can afford.
I, on the other hand, find it very difficult to see this as any progress whatsoever. For Christ's sake if every American state treated car and lorry drivers the way they treat firearms users they would all end up like Florida.
In the meantime here in Old Blighty we are headed down a slippery slope of our own.
The National Rifle Association, home of the armed zealots of the land, will of course say that this unnecessarily restricts a citizen's "right" to possess as much fire power as he or she can afford.
I, on the other hand, find it very difficult to see this as any progress whatsoever. For Christ's sake if every American state treated car and lorry drivers the way they treat firearms users they would all end up like Florida.
In the meantime here in Old Blighty we are headed down a slippery slope of our own.
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