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Newark Mayor Booker's plan to curb guns
NJ.com ^ | 8/17/07 | KATIE WANG

Posted on 08/18/2007 9:44:44 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim

Newark Mayor Cory Booker yesterday outlined a series of measures designed to monitor the flow of guns in and out of the state's largest city and to prevent gun dealers from opening shop in residential neighborhoods or near schools.

Booker, joined by Gov. Jon Corzine and Attorney General Anne Milgram at a news conference yesterday afternoon, admitted the initiatives may not stop the bloodshed overnight, but called them necessary steps in order to curtail violence.

The announcement comes nearly two weeks after four college-age Newark residents were shot in the head behind an elementary school in the Ivy Hill neighborhood. Three of the students died and a fourth survived.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: aliens; bang; banglist; booker; corybooker; crime; gungrab; newark; tbone
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To: ozzymandus

Exactly.


41 posted on 08/19/2007 2:20:03 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: Octar

City voters have no brains is close to the mark.

Very close.


42 posted on 08/19/2007 6:43:22 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: kiriath_jearim

Complete useless BS from a dangerously corrupt and incompetent mayor. NJ already has the most servere gun laws in America. The “sanctuary city” criminal illegals don’t give a rat’s rear-end. And why should they?


43 posted on 08/19/2007 10:15:11 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
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To: El Gato

>>>And if you believe that, there’s a large bridge not far from NJ that I could probably sell you.

Yes there is. But it is called, monetization.


44 posted on 08/19/2007 10:21:31 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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