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MoveOn Mail Box – Ignorance Is Not Bliss

concealedcarryapgraphicbanksJodi Gilman Jones of ‘Portsmouth’ New Hampshire, wants MoveOn members to sign a petition that says…”With all the violence today and accidents involving guns, why do we need citizens to carry concealed weapons without a permit? Shouldn’t we be trying to increase gun safety?”

This is what happens when you step repeatedly in steaming piles of MoveOn.org.

The existing mandatory Federal Background check 90 bazillion percent of people support and every law-abiding citizen who buys a firearm from a firearms dealer must complete (even at a gun show)  does not ask nor does it care if you will be carrying your firearm open or concealed.

In New Hampshire, if you passed the Federal background check, you can already legally carry and conceal an unloaded firearm with a loaded magazine on your person or in a vehicle, as long as there are no bullets in the gun while concealed.

In New Hampshire, if you already passed the Federal background check, you can already carry that same firearm loaded when it is not concealed. (Conspicuous or open carry.)

For a law-abiding citizens to carry and conceal a loaded firearm they are already legally allowed to posses (carry, and conceal) in New Hampshire they tithe to the local village chief every few years and he signs a small candy wrapper sized piece of paper with a number on it.

You don’t have to have the paper to carry a firearm and ammunition concealed on your person separately, and you don’t need the paper to carry a loaded firearm out in the open, but, but but…Safety!

But this is (for the sake of argument)  the state of affairs that Jodi would like to maintain; by removing a local permitting process that collects a few bucks but otherwise has no effect on who can conceal or carry a firearm with the exception that should a single mom legally able to carry accidentally conceal her firearm (put on a coat or sweater if she is cold) without having been provided in advance a roughly 3 x 6 ” scrap of paper signed by a local police chief and get caught, she would get arrested.

It is beyond her capacity to understand.

I’m a single Mom. I live in a “city” in New Hampshire. We are not in a metro here. The New Hampshire Senate passed Senate Bill 116, which would repeal the licensing requirement for carrying a concealed pistol or revolver.  In other words, you can carry a concealed weapon without a permit. Sen. Sharon Carson, R-Londonderry, said “This bill recognizes that the simple act of putting on a coat should not require a permit from the state.”  Really?! How is that to same? Please sign this petition to send a message to New Hampshire that we want gun safety! Not the opposite!

Not to be picky but according to Jodi Gilamn Jones’ My Life’ page she lives in Newmarket, New Hampshire, population 8,936. The city of Portsmouth New Hampshire has 21, 440 residents.  I live in a town in New Hampshire, of some 25,500 and it’s rural and woodsy. Portsmouth does have nearly twice the population density but Newmarket’s is less than Merrimack.  Regardless of that, we’re not talking Chicago where until recently you were more likley to get murdered than allowed to carry a firearm, a distinction lost on likes of MoveOn Monks tasked with repeating the progressive dogma.

Now, I bet Jodi is a great lady once you get her away from the steaming piles of MoveOn.  And being a single mom can be a tough job, just ask Yvonne Dean-Bailey’s mom.  But there is a massive disconnect between the words attributed to her in the most recent MoveOn.org email and reality.

I suspect that she spends some or perhaps too much time in the questionable company of New Hampshire Democrats. (They have been known to tell tall tales.)

If she is, in fact a MoveOn member — important enough to be quoted in an email –then she is either one of those tall-tale-tellers or it could be that she just doesn’t know any better.

Whatever the severity of this particular ideological handicap may be, let me assure you Jodi, that foregoing the need to carry a tiny piece of paper from the local public-safety witch-doctor will only make New Hampshire more like Vermont – which is one of the few places on the planet that is actually safer than New Hampshire.

That is, of course, if safety is actually what concerns you.

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