From the Concord Monitor:
A few days after the New Hampshire Legislature, led by the newly-elected Republican majority, decided in its wisdom to allow guns into our State House, a U.S. congresswoman and her supporters are gunned down by a clearly deranged person who had much too easy access to guns. I do not share the confidence of the new leaders of New Hampshire that no such person lurks in our midst. We need to take steps to join the rest of the civilized world in eliminating guns from our society, not move in the opposite direction.
I will not enter our people’s house until this abhorrent policy is changed. I urge all of my fellow citizens to do the same.
MICHAEL ELLENBECKER
Concord
Abhorrent? Really? You really want to know what is abhorrent? The idea that "such person" isn’t anywhere else either. Taken to its illogical extreme, that "such person" could be anywhere, so she ought not dare to cross her threshold and be in the outside world beyond her house. I do believe that the idea that someone would look up on other citizens as absolutely out for blood lust via bullet simply for carrying a gun. Does she think that little of the vast majority of those that either open or concealed carry are just looking to "go Rambo?"
What IS abhorrent is this scenario:
She had just returned from the courthouse where the Legal Assistance helped her to file a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend; her two young girls greeted her with hugs. Suddenly, there was a loud BANG at the door and a bellowing voice said "OPEN up – I know you’re in there!". The ex-boyfriend. The banging continued and the wood began to splinter. She ran and called 911.
The question – with the door beginning to break, would the police arrive in time to protect her girls?
What Mr. Ellenbecker would happily do would be to take away the only tool that could equalize the huge tilt in the balance of power towards the ex-boyfriend.
Nice – taking choice away from vulnerable, single Moms from having a choice that could help defend them that would do them harm.
