New Jersey Newspaper Attacks Wyoming Over Gun Laws

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Blue States like telling Red States what to do, but they don’t like it when we do it to them

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — New Jersey’s biggest newspaper has a message for the least populated state in the nation: butt out.

The Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark published an editorial on Tuesday telling Wyoming to mind its own business.

The editorial came after Wyoming last week asked the U.S. Supreme Court for permission to submit a brief on behalf of itself and 18 other states supporting a New Jersey man who is challenging that state’s concealed weapons law.

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“Most New Jerseyans don’t want to have to worry that the guy they’re fighting with over a parking spot might be packing heat,” the editorial stated. “That’s why you need to show justifiable need to carry a handgun here.”

The editorial goes on to question whether people in Wyoming and other states want New Jersey meddling in their gun laws. It stated that states with lax gun laws “actually do threaten our citizens by making it easier for dangerous people to acquire guns and bring them back East.”

The editorial stated Wyoming is among the top states in rates of gun deaths per capita and supplying guns that are used in crimes in other states. “So the problem isn’t our laws. It’s yours,” it stated.

Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead issued a statement last week announcing his administration’s move to get involved in the challenge to the New Jersey law.

“This decision out of New Jersey impacts the right to keep and bear arms outside of the home,” said Mead. “So, I felt it was necessary to have the attorney general support a petition to the Supreme Court to hear this case.

“If the current decision stands, states providing greater protections than New Jersey under the Second Amendment may be pre-empted by future federal action,” said Mead.

Wyoming is one of the most pro-gun states. It allows citizens to carry concealed handguns without a permit, doesn’t prohibit private ownership of machine guns, and Mead last year signed a law allowing hunters to take game animals with firearms equipped with silencers.

The adversary tells us to “butt out” while lecturing us about our laws? And look at that editorial, now why would you encourage people to fight over a parking lot? Are New Jerseans naturally-born a-holes? Do they come out of the womb insulting the nurses?

Besides, if the guy you’re fighting in the parking lot is a gangster like Tony Soprano, he will have a gun, and he will shoot your ass. So here’s an idea, treat everyone like they have a gun, and you’ll do fine.

The problem is never the gun, the problem is always some people, and it is because of them that we carry guns, I’m not talking about people who fight over a parking lot but the ones that want to murder us.

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