Pirate's Cove

Overnight Saturday, technically Sunday morning, fights broke out in Trenton at Art All Night, followed by a couple people pulling out their handguns and taking shots at each other and hitting citizens, including kids (what were they doing out at 3am?) So, of course

(Fox News) Less than 24 hours after the gunfire, [New Jersey Gov. Phil] Murphy — a former Goldman Sachs banker who served as President Barack Obama’s ambassador to Germany — began calling for gun control without addressing the other circumstances involved in the crime.

“It’s yet another reminder of the senseless gun violence, even having signed six stringent gun laws last week,” Murphy said at a news conference Sunday following a service at Trenton’s Galilee Baptist Church.

During the service, he said he “and many others around this state are committed to ending this scourge of gun violence” and urged the Congress to take action on guns “as a national matter.”

On Twitter, the governor also said the immediate aftermath is the time to speak about possible gun control.

“These are not inappropriate times to talk about gun policy,” he wrote. “These are the most important times to talk about gun policy.”

Tahaji Wells, who was shot and killed by police, had been released early from prison. He was sentenced in 2004 to 18 years in state prison after pleading guilty to aggravated manslaughter at the tender age of 17. He was sentenced to six more years after pleading guilty to a second-degree racketeering charge. Yet, he was recently release from jail, when he should have been there into the 2020’s. He was found to have a handgun with an extended magazine, already illegal in NJ. Everything points to this being gang related, in a neighborhood that is prone to gang violence, in a Democratic Party run city that is not known for being particularly safe. And yet

We awoke to news of a mass shooting right here in Trenton.

Art All Night is a time when we all come together. We cannot let gun violence tear us apart.

These are not inappropriate times to talk about gun policy. These are the most important times to talk about gun policy. pic.twitter.com/EJtM7iLOPN

— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) June 17, 2018

The conversations on the articles at NJ.com wondered when Phil would blame the guns, despite having signed 6 anti-gun measures that mostly affect law abiding citizen’s ability to defend themselves in a state that is one of the most gun restrictive in the nation. And is seemingly soft on crime.

But, hey, if Phil wants to talk about gun policy, let’s talk about the danger of him and all the elected officials being protected by people with guns. By their own talking points, that is dangerous. They should be disarmed, just like the law abiding population.