New Jersey lawmakers, who often lead the nation in passing gun safety laws, have barely moved on eight gun safety bills currently before them as New York and even the U.S. Senate reached deals in the wake of recent mass shootings.
, and no matter where the opposition is coming from, we want to make sure that Senate President Scutari posts the bills [for votes], and we don’t understand why that wouldn’t be possible,” said Raisa Rubin-Stankiewicz, a lead state organizer for March For Our Lives. “It is necessary to take action now. There is no time to waste.”
Meanwhile, Scutari’s left flank is restless. Sue Altman, executive director of the New Jersey Working Families Alliance, said the gun control proposals are “very, very popular among New Jerseyans, so it seems inexplicable to me that [Scutari] can’t leverage his power as senate president to get the votes if he really wanted to.”
One proposal, similar to a law signed in New York last year, would allow gun manufacturers to be sued by the state for public harm. Unlike the other proposals, that bill moved Monday when it passed the Senate Judiciary committee, with Democratic support and Republican opposition.spoke But Scutari, Hale said, “doesn’t have the same sense of urgency to act.” Plus, “he has to make sure he has all the votes he needs to pass what would be some of the most aggressive gun control measures in the nation. Every policy ideal must get through the practical and transactional parts of New Jersey politics.”
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