Uncertainty surrounding the public health crisis, as well as heightened attention to social injustice, may be connected to an extraordinary increase in the number of New Jersey residents seeking approval to own a firearm.
"We are trying to reduce the interactions that police officers have with citizens, so we want to make sure that it's a violation that warrants calling us," he said.
Just this past school year alone, Middle Township police delivered 110 notices to school principals that indicated a student may still be reeling from a traumatic incident off school grounds, and deserves to be "handled with care."
Carrying a badge and guns comes with pressures and scenarios that certain people just can not handle in the end, no matter how tough they may appear on the surface.