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FB Doodlings: No, kids playing in the political arena voluntarily are fair game

Kids as pawns
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Letter: Senators condescending in debate on gun amendment

Sometimes for a conservative blogger, the Concord Monitor can’t be beat for finding fodder. The above was from yesterday concerning the Amendment that would allow local School Board make decisions on our Right to keep and bear arms (Article 2-a in the NH Constitution).

What Democrat NH State Senator Hennessey wanted to do is start to unravel the idea that we are a Dillon’s Rule state – the State of NH has primacy and the Towns and Cities in NH are mere political subdivisions. While this can be viewed as a bit disconcerting here in the State whose motto is “Live Free or Die” at that macro level, it would allow The State (at the local level) to monkey with universal Rights simply because of an extremist ideological hatred of firearms wielded by law-abiding citizens to where we wouldn’t really ever know, based on crossing a town/city line, if we were in compliance with the law or magically transformed into jailbait with a turn of one’s tires.

Jonathan Weinberg decided to take on the State Senators that stood up for Individual Rights with this line (what IS it about these people and the idea of “tone”???): “While the senators spoke directly to the students in the gallery, they were condescending and spoke as if we could not possibly be expected to understand.” Immediately what came to mind was the Biblical admonition: “He who has ears, let him hear”. Then a commenter decided that Weinberg was a fount of all [Progressive] knowledge (emphasis mine):

Nancy Brennan · UNH and Emerson

Well put, Jonathan. Thank you. I was in the gallery and totally agree. The kids are indeed the adults in the room on this issue.

Of course, no dice with me:

Mere political pawns – Tide Pod eaters last week, Second Amendment experts and Moralizers this week. And now David Hogg has announced that he’s a Voting ID activist.

Mastery of every field they’ve touched, I reckon and all before the age at which they’ve actually supported themselves without Mommy and Daddy handing them $100 bills a fistful at a time.

And I think it is rather insulting to the real adults in the room – that phrase “the kids are indeed the adults in the room” is nothing more than a Progressive phrase to shut down the debate as in “how DARE you go after the children”.

Well, when they want to restrict my enumerated Right through the use of politics (for anytime one invokes the Force of Government, that, by definition, is politics), they are fair game for anyone.

Let me add that gun-free school zones, simply by the dint of historical example, don’t work. Yet, Progressives and anti-gunners keep believing that just because they declare “something” simply by their “higher morality”, everyone will simply fall into line. Then they refuse to take responsibility for their policy and blame something (guns) or someone (but never from one of their identity politics totem pole groups) for when it goes sideways.

Yes, we should leave children (and make NO mistake, these Parkland kids are children) alone and out of politics even when their parents and family bring them into it (I hate seeing little kids holding Right or Left ideological signs!!!!). That said, the Parkland kids decided to come play in an arena in which they’d normally get slaughtered (rhetorically speaking) but these kids have a lot of Progressive money and organizations behind them what wished to carry out Rahm Emmanuel’s command in not wasting this crisis.

None of us on the Right should allow them the pretense of non-politicalness. When they rail against politicians, other organizations, calling people murders, assigning them blame for no reason, scream against the Constitution, let’em have it – they ARE fair game for anyone on the Right as it is the Left that is using them, as I said before, just like they did Cindy Sheehan before them.

His Letter (emphasis mine):

I am very disappointed in the senators who voted against the amendment to Senate Bill 357, relative to the enforcement of gun-free school zones. Specifically Sens. Bob Giuda, Jeb Bradley, James Gray, Harold French, Ruth Ward, Andy Sanborn, Gary Daniels, Kevin Avard, Sharon Carson, John Reagan, Regina Birdsell, Chuck Morse, William Gannon and Daniel Innis.

The utter disrespect from some of the senators, calling school board officials incompetent to make important decisions, is sickening, as well as a misinterpretation of the point of the amendment, which is local control.

Each district has different methods of how to keep students safe. This was not an attack on the Second Amendment, nor did it disallow the idea of arming teachers or expanding the number of resource officers in school. All it was going to do was make sure each district could make each school as safe as possible.

While the senators spoke directly to the students in the gallery, they were condescending and spoke as if we could not possibly be expected to understand.

I can tell you, senators, that I am aware this issue is multifaceted. There are so many social issues in this country that I think people miss that they’re interconnected. Whether it’s gun violence, immigration, domestic abuse or mental health, it comes down to a single idea of compassion and respect for one’s neighbor and caring for other people.
Please go out in your communities and question your representatives to make sure they are actually representing your ideals. Most importantly, vote.

JONATHAN WEINBERG
Concord

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