Stand Your Ground

HB 135 Up For Vote – Thursday, May 23, 10:00 am

May 20, 2013

HB 135, to repeal NH’s “Stand Your Ground” , is scheduled for a vote by the full Senate this Thursday, May 23.  The session begins at 10.  Call your Senator and tell him or her to support the Committee’s report to vote ITL – Inexpedient To Legislate!    

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May 18th GrokTALK! Guest Segment – Jenn Coffey

May 19, 2013

In Segment three of this weeks GrokTALK! the Honorable Jenn Coffey talks about stand your ground, what it really means in New Hampshire, what you need to know about knife rights and a few other topics as well. Note: You can listen to Jenn Coffey every Wednesday at 6:20am on the Jenn & Jenn segment, [ Read more ]

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Say Hello to the Happy Train

May 1, 2013

Rick reported the news yesterday of the likely demise of HB 135 (2013)– Deputy Dawg Stephen Shurtleff’s  repeal of stand your ground for me but not for he. Most of us had an inkling of this last week, and I’m not about to go on about that or the bill’s demise because Rick has more to add (or just [ Read more ]

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House Bill 135: From the Senate: “Inexpedient to Legislate”

April 30, 2013

Senator Sharon Carson just messaged me… The Committee voted to recommend 4-1 HB 135 ITL —MORE TO COME…

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April 27th GrokTALK! Skip and Steve open the Program…

April 28, 2013

This week on GrokTALK! before our guests arrive Skip and Steve talk about Bill O’Brien, making State government smaller, a local New Hampshire case where despite stand your ground a Democrat county attorney still pressed charges, second amendment rights, contracts, the government messing up prescription drugs, what happens when you are late for your guest [ Read more ]

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HB 135: State v. Craig Moses

April 27, 2013

“In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.” —Tacitus Liberals love to ignore inconvenient facts. Stick fingers in ears, close eyes and yell, “La-la-la-la-la!” Franklin resident Craig Moses was acquitted under the Granite State’s “Stand Your Ground” law.  Moses was arrested nearly a year ago in Nashua outside a nighclub and charged [ Read more ]

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Real life NH Example of why HB135 (repeal of Stand Your Ground) is a bad idea

April 26, 2013

From Pro-Gun NH, an example of someone who would be in jail if it wasn’t for the passage of the “Stand Your Ground” law simply for trying to protect his family member in a public space.  I keep hearing that we are “not to worry – this is not a problem in NH” with the [ Read more ]

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“Citizens With Guns:” Better Trained Than Police? Really?

April 24, 2013

“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”   —George S. Patton I was at the State Senate hearing yesterday on HB 135. I heard a great deal of testimony. Senator Carson asked people not to read their testimony, Zandra Rice-Hawkins, boringly read [ Read more ]

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Assuming I survive….

April 24, 2013

From this morning’s Concord fish wrap: “Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth Woodcock said people who legitimately act in self-defense usually don’t get charged with a crime, anyway. “I think you have to have some confidence in your law enforcement people, that they do do their level best to prosecute, the people who really deserve prosecution and [ Read more ]

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HB 135 Deputy Dawg Shurtleff ‘Stand Your Ground Repeal’ – NH State Senate Hearing is Tomorrow

April 22, 2013

c/o Scott Smith / Facebook New Hampshire: Shurtleff Criminal Protection Bill Scheduled for Senate Committee Hearing in Concord on Tuesday On Tuesday, April 23, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hear House Bill 135. Introduced by state Representative Stephen Shurtleff (D- Merrimack 11), HB 135 will render law-abiding citizens defenseless victims by removing consequences [ Read more ]

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A Message to the Ayotte “I told You So” Crowd

April 18, 2013

Many of us objected to Senator Ayotte’s vote to break a filibuster on gun control.  Now that the measure is dead in the Senate, and Senator Ayotte voted to kill it, and Obama is mad as hell, the folks who thought we were overreacting, are all “well SEE!?” To these folks I submit the following:  [ Read more ]

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House Bill 135: Representative Jan Schmidt Thinks People Don’t Understand

April 9, 2013

“It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.” —Don Herold On Wednesday, March 27 Representative Janice Schmidt (D) Hillsborough 27 – Nashua took to the Londonderry Patch with her local voices entry entitled, HB 135: I Don’t Think It Means What You Think [ Read more ]

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Life Imitates Democrat legislation

April 4, 2013

I was just reading Scott’s post about the chickens of modern day feminism coming home to roost and it occurred to me;  the video of the young man that dodged the ball that then modified the face of  his date is a perfect example of how the left wants us all to behave. I’ll call this “Life [ Read more ]

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Shurtleff Defends Stand Your Ground Repeal In The Union Leader

March 30, 2013

“There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.”  —George Eliot Last Monday, Steve Shurtleff wrote an op-ed in advocacy for his bill to repeal stand your ground. He tells several lies, makes completely inaccurate statements and could [ Read more ]

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NH House Vote To Repeal Stand Your Ground (HB 135) is Today

March 27, 2013

Update [-Skip]:  The NH House just voted to pass HB135 which means that you must flee from danger instead of asserting your Right to Self-Defense.  From the House Republican Alliance: “We are saddened but not surprised by the passage of HB135, which removes a person’s right to defend oneself. The passage of this politically motivated [ Read more ]

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Support the Boulder Airlift!

March 27, 2013

Via Jim Rawles   

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Guest post by Penny Dean, Esq. – HB135 “Stand your ground” must be defeated

March 25, 2013

HB 135 NEEDS TO BE ITL’D If the proposed changes to RSA 627:4 in the form of HB 135 are adopted (i.e. the return to the previous version of the law-see below), the affirmative defense will no longer be available to those who are forced to defend themselves or others at places other than their [ Read more ]

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What Problem Will HB 135 (The Repeal of Stand Your Ground) Address?

March 19, 2013

HB 135 would not address any problem, unless justifying the fear-mongering and misinformation campaign of the anti-gun crowd is the goal. To that end there is a great editorial about H135 and the fear mongering of the left, in the union leader.  here’s a snippet. Testifying against the “stand your ground” legislation in 2011, Associate [ Read more ]

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Petition to Oppose HB 135

March 17, 2013

A petition was set up at the website, “SignOn.org” a website variant of MoveOn.org. The lefties originally began a petition to support HB 135, and at the same time another petition was started to oppose HB 135. HB 135 is the bill seeking to eliminate “stand your ground.”  Now that the petition started to outpace [ Read more ]

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Support ‘Stand Your Ground’ In New Hampshire [Updated]

March 17, 2013

[Updated] For those who are not interested in using the original petition site reported below (SignOn.org), I have created a separate petition on a different site.  I used the exact same language as the original.    New Hampshire Democrats have been doing their best to roll back, repeal, or undo anything and everything the last (Republican) legislature did.  The most recent [ Read more ]

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If I didn’t think he was serious…..

March 9, 2013

…I coulda satirized him.  Apologies to Michele Malkin….

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A picture…

February 20, 2013

…is worth a thousand words. H/T Looking Spoon  

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‘If it’s illegal for us, don’t sell it to police!’

February 10, 2013

An interesting concept….. H/T Instapundit Full abstracted post here from Grass Roots North Carolina (GRNC) ‘GRNC Alert 2-9-2013: LaRue Tactical Takes a Stand for Second Amendment Rights! The Second Amendment has always had fair-weather friends. LaRue Tactical, manufacturers of firearms and firearm accessories, is one company that will never be accused of being our fair-weather [ Read more ]

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Guest post by NH State Rep Jane Cormier – “Bad Bill of the Month”

February 8, 2013

Bad Bill of the Month HB 135 Bill Sponsored by Rep. Stephen Shurtleff, Merrimack 11 HB 135 STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE…. 1. Eliminates the provision allowing a person to use deadly force anywhere he or she has a right to be. (If you are in a dark parking lot, just be ready to run, I [ Read more ]

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It’s all Greek to me….

January 30, 2013

H/T KT Ordinance In 480 BC, during the Greek-Persian war, Spartans under King Leonidas of Sparta held the pass in the Greek mountains at Thermopylae against a million-man Persion army by blocking the pass with 100 men abreast.

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