Monday, January 14, 2013
Cranford Mayor Hannen, along with 75 other New Jersey mayors agree with a push for gun control laws in Washington.
Editor's Note: It was originally reported that Mayor Tom Hannen would be joining Fanwood Mayor Collen Mahr on a trip to Washington. Hannen didn't intend on joining the group, but fully supports the effort. Hannen will be in Cranford dealing with a "full-agenda" of Cranford items he told Patch. ----- Fanwood Mayor Collen Mahr will travel to Washington on Wednesday as a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns to petition members of congress to implement stricter gun control laws. Mahr, along with eleven other New Jersey mayors, will meet in Cranford this morning to discuss their plan to tackle the issue. Also, the mayors will show members of the media at the Cranford Municipal Building a public service announcement featuring the family members…
Friday, January 11, 2013
Cranford Mayor Thomas Hannen and Fanwood Mayor Colleen Mahr are among twelve mayors that will visit Washington Wednesday to force congress to act on gun violence.
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Friday, January 11
Editor's note: This is a press release from the Township of Cranford. Twelve NJ mayors have joined bipartisan Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition in past month, bringing total to more than 70 mayors, and more than 800 nationwide Mayors from throughout New Jersey, along with former Gov. Jim Florio, are still waiting for Congress to pass sensible gun laws – at the one month anniversary of the Newtown massacre. They will meet with the media on Monday, January 14 at 10 a.m. at the Cranford municipal building to lay out their solution for an issue that has reached a boiling point in America. They will also display a new national television advertisement featuring gun violence survivors and victims’ family members. From there, the mayors …
Saturday, December 15, 2012
The following letter was sent to Congressman Leonard Lance.
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Last year guns killed 48 people in Japan, 8 in Great Britain, 34 in Switzerland, 21 in Sweden and over 11,000 in the United States. We spend billions on security threats abroad, but do little to improve the security from assault weapons and handguns that have killed over 30,000 people in 2012. When is enough, enough? The NRA will not be providing a pamphlet to assist our schools how to talk to children after this bloodbath. The right to bear arms is not more important than a child's right to grow up. I urge you sir, as you claim to be a moderate, to represent us and be a true leader and work with the Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence and make changes. Sensible change in our nations guns laws are long overdue. America is better than this…
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11:48 am on Thursday, January 17, 2013
Great! So the tax payers of New Jersey get to pay for our Maors to go to Washington DC to push for laws that ALREADY EXIST IN NEW JERSEY! People in New Jersey ALREADY can't have high capacity magazines, need to have people sign that we're not crazy, and have background checks. It's all political manipulation of the uninformed. more ›