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"The Garden State has some of the nation's strictest gun-control laws. Carry permits are rare, so it's not something that officers hear often during traffic stops. New Jersey doesn't recognize carry permits from any other state, either, something Allen said she didn't realize.

You see...this kind of thing should be prima facie grounds for expulsion of a state from the Union of these here United States.

I mean...it's not like we really need a small, county-sized tract of land called "New Jersey" filled with people people speaking some inscrutable dialect only vaguely resembling English.

I'm sure we could get along quite nicely without it, but what to do with it is proving to be a bit of an issue. Checked with the Canadians, and it's pretty clear they want nothing to do with the place. It's just too liberal for them. We checked with the British to see if they were interested, also, but they said they're now pretty much out of the overseas empire business. We asked the Bangladeshis if they could take New Jersey off our hands. The Bangladeshis said "Thanks, but no thanks...the place is full of people from New Jersey." Next call: the Chinese. ;-)