Doesn't that make you wonder about the stability of Massachusetts residents, Bob?
I always assume that a state's own government knows its people better than anyone else could know them. So if Massachusetts doesn't trust its own citizens to behave rationally I think it is foolish for anyone else to trust them either.
I'm actually grateful to the state governments of New Jersey, New York, and other states identified by their own governments as being populated by dangerous people. Without the work of their legislatures and governors I would have assumed that those people were normal.
It's also clear that the rest of the country would be safer if there were some way to prevent the people of Washington, D.C., New York City, and Chicago from ever getting out and coming in contact with the rest of us: Mayors Fenty, Bloomberg, and Daley have made a convincing case that the residents of those cities are homicidal maniacs.