Thank Goodness for Gun Control!

Why, if New Jersey didn't have such strict gun control, someone could have gotten hurt!

Machete attack in New Jersey

CBS/WCBS) PATERSON, N.J. - Police said Wednesday they have arrested three men who were caught on tape attacking two people in a New Jersey restaurant, chopping at one victim with a machete.

Watch the video (careful, it plays automatically). It's a good thing that machete wasn't that sharp, because that dude was swinging it like he was sentencing thieves in Arabia. Reading the story, the only person injured by the machete was the dude that handed it over to the wielder... There's got to be more to the story than is shown, because if not, and these guys are just beating the hell out of anyone who walks in, then New Jersey is on a par with Detroit here.

I love, too, how they try to blame this on the recession. "Officers have been laid off" my hairy Italian ass - $20 says they still have plenty of cops to harass people with out-of-state license plates on the Garden State Parkway. This isn't a police problem here. This is a judicial problem, plain and simple. At the start of the video, the dude sitting in the chair pulls out a gun, holds it out in the air and racks the slide. In a restaurant with video surveillance. He doesn't care if he gets caught doing it - because he knows the odds of serving hard time are infinitesimally small.

As an aside, doesn't the unidentified dude accused of swinging the machete look like a dark Adam Sandler?

That is all.

Thanks to reader Scott for the link!