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    | NJ: Carol Bowne Murdered by Ex-boyfriend.. and New Jersey Laws Submitted by: 
			
Robert Morse
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    | Carol Bowne is dead. The petite hairdresser was murdered by her ex-boyfriend.. and by the state of New Jersey.  Bowne had received threats.  She did everything a law-abiding citizen could do.  She obtained a protective order.  She installed security cameras inside and outside her home.
 
 Ms. Bowne tried to get a firearm for self-defense.  She started the long process to be allowed to buy a gun in New Jersey.  The state delayed her application and Bowne ran out of time.
 
 The man who stabbed Carol Bowne to death was a convicted felon.  He had a previous charge of battery and armed kidnapping of another women.  The police knew her murderer.. and yet they denied Carol Bowne a firearm purchase permit to defend herself.
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     Millwright66
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    | Just about every NJ legislator needs to be smeared with this lady's blood everyday on their way into the State House just as a reminder of the consequences NJ citizens bear because of their conceits. 
 We will never know if Ms. Browne could have successfully defended herself.  She - thanks to smug, self-righteous conceits regarding self-defense by NJ legislators -  never had the chance.
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                      | I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.  — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |  |  |