On To Joisey...And Those Ever So Powerful Hunters...

WARNING: The following article is hilarious for all the wrong reasons so try not to soil the keyboard with hydration effluvium from a full frontal guffaw.

"A hard lesson was learned on election day in New Jersey's 12th legislative district, when incumbent State Senator Ellen Karcher (D-12) and incumbent Assemblyman Mike Panter (D-12) were retired from public service despite the infusion of millions of campaign dollars to save their seats.

That lesson can be summed up this way: don't mess with the sportsmen.

There is one reason and one reason only that these otherwise popular politicians lost their jobs: they went too far in assailing the rights and traditions of law-abiding New Jersey sportsmen and sportswomen.

There are well over a million hunters, anglers, and responsible gun owners in New Jersey. For the most part, they keep to themselves, content to exercise their rights, freedoms and chosen activities without interference. But when aroused to action by over-the-top legislation that threatens to interfere, they can become a force of nature at the polls."

Translation: Don't mess with the Fudds.

New Jersey did not turn into a bastion of all things liberal and gun-intolerable because the aforementioned sportsmen and women were concerned about their inalienable rights.

New Jersey bans the use of hollowpoints. New Jersey prohibits concealed carry for those not affiliated with law enforcement. The purchase of each and every gun requires its own license, a license that can and does take up to 2 months to receive. Local law enforcement has the final say on issuing said licenses, and needs NO reason for a turn-down. You can only carry a weapon to and from a certified range, and the gun must be disassembled in the trunk of your vehicle within a lockable case and apart from its ammunition.

All of THESE laws and more, the sportsmen and women of New Jersey find acceptable.

Mess with their deer tags and Katie bar the door.

What this story and those like it prove behind a shadow of a doubt is the power of the citizen to make a difference. Advertising dollars did not matter when it came down to voting for the politicians who swore they wouldn't screw with blackpowder season.

The very fact that this writer remains blissfully unawares of how truly lame all of this sounds...giving kudos to the people who tolerate some of the absolute WORST gun control laws in the nation...is quite par for the course in NJ.

Where the vast majority of gun owners make the pre-epiphany Jim Zumbo seem like the reincarnation of Thomas Jefferson.

Sad.