The problem in JC is different altogether. We don't have a problem of crazy white folks owning too many sophisticated guns. We have too many illegal guns in the hands of gangstas and their teenage (i dunno whos my daddy) kids.

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One Million Moms Group Marches For Gun Control In Jersey City

January 26, 2013 1:15 PM

The One Million Moms for Gun Control group rallies in Jersey

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JERSEY CITY, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) ? Gun control advocates rallied in Jersey City Saturday, speaking out in the wake of the massacre last month in Newtown, Conn.

The group One Million Moms for Gun Control led the rally in Lincoln Park in Jersey City. The group formed the same day as the massacre, in which gunman Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 children ages 6 or 7, and six staff members, before turning the gun on himself.

The group is calling on Congress to take New York?s lead and enact tough gun-control legislation.

A few hundred braved the cold to attend the march and rally, and turn up the heat on lawmakers in Washington.

?If concerned parents and citizens stand together we can make a very strong statement that we?re, we?re aware, and we?re voting, and we?re paying attention,? said Nancy Bangiola of Morristown.

Bangiola said it is not about taking away all guns.

?I think we represent the reasonable middle,? she said. ?I think everybody here is pretty well aware of the Second Amendment.?

Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy attended the rally, and said the focus is on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

?We?re not taking guns from hunters and the like,? he said. ?These weapons do not belong in any civilians? hands.?

Rallies were also held in Washington, D.C.; Boston and Chicago, among other municipalities, according to published reports.

Earlier this month, President Obama challenged the powerful gun lobby to ?do the right thing? and end gun violence in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

Obama on Wednesday also unveiled a $500 million package of executive actions and legislative proposals aimed at reducing gun violence. The package includes a call on Congress to ban military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and it would close loopholes in the gun sale background check system.

The president?s long list of executive orders also includes:

Ordering tougher penalties for people who lie on background checks and requiring federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.

Ending limits that make it more difficult for the government to research gun violence, such as gathering data on guns that fall into criminal hands.

Requiring federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.

Giving schools flexibility to use federal grant money to improve school safety, such as by hiring school resource officers.
Giving communities grants to institute programs to keep guns away from people who shouldn?t have them.

Also earlier this month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the nation?s toughest assault weapon and magazine restrictions.

But many gun rights advocates say creating new laws won?t solve the problem and will only infringe on their rights.

A group formed in the wake of last month?s Newtown, Conn., school massacre will rally in Jersey City this weekend for stronger gun-control laws.
Mandi Perlmutter, who helps run One Million Moms for Gun Control?s New Jersey chapter, said the nationwide group wants to ?bring some common sense? to the discussion over gun violence.

?The goal is to do for gun control and gun violence what MADD did for drunk driving,? Perlmutter said, referring to the advocacy group Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Saturday?s rally in Jersey City will coincide with others set for Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago and elsewhere.

One Million Moms formed Dec. 14, the day 20 students and six staff members were fatally shot inside Sandy Hook Elementary School. The shootings shocked the nation and jump-started plans to tighten up gun-control laws at state and federal levels.