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How do you think I feel - I grew up in New Jersey, which has turned into the PRNJ. Thankfully, I had an opportunity to escape, and came to Texas, Free America. NJ used to be solidly Republican - until all of the jackasses from NYC came across the Hudson River after the candidates they voted for destroyed New York. Rather than learn from the experience, the blissninnies continued to vote for the same type of socialists in their new home, resulting in such wonderous representatives as Florio (who shoved a true ban on "assault" rifles and normal capacity magazines down our throats), Richard Hughes (responsible for the '86 machine gun ban), Torrecelli, Lautenberg and Corzine.

One thing does bring a smile to my face - when I was on the Delaware Memorial Bridge on my way out of NJ and we passed the "Welcome to Delaware" sign, I turned to my wife and said, "Now you won't have to worry about bailing me out." Of course, this elicited the desired wide-eyed, slack-jawed expression that I was looking for, followed by "What!? What are you talking about?!" Since she was new to NJ and relatively new to the country, I explained the law to her - and the fact that I had at least 200 years of prison time sitting about 3 feet in back of her (in the form of normal cap magazines that had somehow or other found their way into my collection, at 5 years per). I didn't bother mentioning the penalties for owning the hundreds of hollowpoints or some of the other interesting things that were keeping the magazines company - it would have just confused the issue. Anyway, she then said, "This isn't a problem in Texas, is it?" When I explained that Texas was actually part of the United States of America - i.e. its citizens believe in individual liberty, an important part of which is guns, she said "I'm glad we're going there." So was I. While I didn't move because of guns, I'll never again live in an anti-gun jurisdiction: serving time in jail or getting killed by a bunch of over-enthusiastic JBT's for exercising rights that my father and grandfathers took for granted is not in my plans.