“The NH Progressive has the unique habit of cursing New Hampshire while they enjoy the quality of life directly attributable to its population and culture.”
Recently I happened upon a delightful opinion piece in one of the local daily papers that epitomizes the mindset of that particular virulent form of Leftist called the ‘New Hampshire Progressive’. This article is replete with the holy trinity of Progressivism; anti-gun, anti-Christian and anti-white. It serves as an excellent example of what I term ‘progressive porn’ which has unfortunately become more and more pervasive in the NH media as of late. It also contains the typical mudslinging and unsubstantiated allegations that one has come to expect from the extremist Left in our country. However the article exhibits something more, it reveals the ugly face of the ‘New Hampshire Progressive’. This letter is blatantly defamatory toward white Christian males painting them as the central cause of mass incidents of gun violence. Strangely enough the author happens to live in a predominantly white, Christian and overwhelmingly Pro-Second Amendment state. I can only imagine the burden she must be enduring to live in such a hell on earth.
Behold the words of the New Hampshire Progressive in all its glory;
Thank you, President Obama for your bold move through executive orders to try to put some sanity into our gun laws. As we have heard from every president in recent history, Republican and Democrat alike, a president’s most important role as chief executive is to secure the safety and well-being of the citizens of this country. You have just taken a step in that direction. It is time for Congress to act by backing and going beyond what you have initiated.
We are under attack in this country, not by Isis and Muslims, as some presidential candidates would like us to believe. We are under attack by gun laws that are antiquated and unable to protect law-abiding people. More mass murders have been committed by white “Christian” guys than by any foreign-born group. If the NRA wasn’t blocking legislation that would allow the NIH to track and give out statistics on actual gun deaths in this country, we would be astonished at the numbers.
I drive a 3-ton vehicle that has the potential to accidentally (or on purpose if I’m unhinged) cause the death of other human beings. For the privilege of driving that vehicle, I had to take driving lessons and am required to keep my license to drive up-to-date and carry insurance to protect anyone whom I might injure. I am required to register this potentially lethal vehicle. I am expected to follow many laws that have been put in place for the safety of everyone. How can we, with good conscience, not expect the same of gun owners? The gun lobby will read this and say that this would result in wide-scale confiscation of guns and that simply is not true. Having laws for cars has not eliminated them from our society as we still have hundreds of millions of cars on the road.
When nearly 90 percent of people in this country want more gun regulations, how can we sit back and allow the financial influence of the NRA to take away our right to be safe. When are the Republican presidential candidates going to be courageous and show that they would take serious a president’s most important role, that of securing the safety and well-being of the citizens of this country from the most pressing homegrown issue of the day — unfettered gun violence.
Judith A. Ackerson
Franklin
One of the first questions that I would ask this Progressive author is; please show me where in the US Constitution that it is written that one has a constitutionally protected right to own a motor vehicle or in the case of our Forefathers a Horse? The answer of course is that there is none because a means of transportation was not crucial to keeping or managing a ’free state’. Most intelligent Americans grasp the concept that driving is a ‘privilege’ and not a ‘right’ which is why the state has the authority to regulate and register all vehicles that utilize the public roadways. Though the author waxes romantically about the thought of mandating insurance on gun owners we must remind her that the state of New Hampshire does not have compulsory auto insurance for her “3 ton vehicle”. But as we all too well know the thought of ‘compulsory anything’ causes a tingle in a Progressives ganglia as we have learned with the ACA. Also I would be remiss if I did not at least mention the fact that more people have been killed or injured in New Hampshire in 2015 by motor vehicles than by firearms. Using the authors reasoning I would opine that she is more of a danger in her “3 ton vehicle” on our roadways than any gun toting New Hampshirites. However the ugly nature of the New Hampshire Progressive does not lie in a simple misunderstanding of the intent of the Second Amendment, truth be told many average Americans both on the Left and Right, fail to comprehend the intent of the Second Amendment. But thankfully such a misunderstanding can be readily clarified by a simple reading of the Federalist papers which are available in book stores and public libraries. One can even peruse cases decided by our own US Supreme Court on Second Amendment issues like the DC v. Heller or McDonald v. Chicago decisions. But one would have to be interested in facts to perform even the most rudimentary research. No, the ‘ugliness’ goes much deeper than just a simple constitutional misunderstanding about the Second Amendment.
Ask yourself; what would make a person continue to live in a state that that they obviously distain? If as the author insinuates, that white Christian males are responsible for the majority of mass murders why wouldn’t she simply move to a state that better fits her political philosophy and that according to her is ‘safer’ in her eyes? Surely a state like New Hampshire that is 93.9% white according to the 2014 census with approximately half that percent being ‘white males’, and possessing a large Christian population and is also undoubtedly pro-second amendment must be one of the most dangerous placed on earth? Why wouldn’t she relocate to a state that has extremely restrictive gun laws, or that has a majority non-Christian demographic or that even happens to have a ‘majority minority’ population? So why live in New Hampshire?
Let’s see how our state compares to others shall we?
http://www.bestplaces.net/religion/state/new_hampshire
http://www.deseretnews.com/top/1428/10/California-10-states-with-the-strictest-gun-laws.html
https://wallethub.com/edu/safest-states-to-live-in/4566/
Hmmm, the author’s statements do not seem to be supported by the evidence, but then again we are talking about Progressives in pursuit of an agenda.
So how about this particular statement made by the author, does it hold up to scrutiny as well?
“We are under attack in this country, not by ISIS and Muslims, as some presidential candidates would like us to believe. We are under attack by gun laws that are antiquated and unable to protect law-abiding people. More mass murders have been committed by white “Christian” guys than by any foreign-born group.”
Well, let’s look at the evidence:
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2016/01/08/police-officer-shot-multiple-times-in-west-philly/
| Date | Country | City/State | Killed | Injured | Description |
| 04/14/72 | USA | New York, NY | 1 | 3 | Ten members of a local mosque phone in a false alarm and then ambush responding officers, killing one. |
| 01/19/73 | USA | Brooklyn, NY | 1 | 1 | Muslim extremists rob a sporting goods store for weapons, gunning down a police officer who responds to the alarm. |
| 07/01/73 | USA | Bethesda, MD | 1 | 0 | An Israeli diplomat is gunned down in his driveway by Palestinian terrorists. |
| 07/18/73 | USA | Washington, DC | 8 | 2 | Nation of Islam members shoot seven members of a family to death in cold blood, including four children. A defendant in the case is later murdered in prison on orders from Elijah Muhammad. |
| 10/19/73 | USA | Oakland, CA | 1 | 1 | Nation of Islam terrorists kidnap a couple and nearly decapitate the man, while raping and leaving the woman for dead. |
| 10/29/73 | USA | Berkeley, CA | 1 | 0 | A woman is shot repeatedly in the face by Nation of Islam terrorists. |
| 11/25/73 | USA | Oakland, CA | 1 | 0 | A grocer is killed in his store by Nation of Islam terrorists. |
| 12/11/73 | USA | Oakland, CA | 1 | 0 | A man is killed by Nation of Islam terrorists while using a phone booth. |
| 12/13/73 | USA | Oakland, CA | 1 | 0 | A woman is shot to death on the sidewalk by Nation of Islam terrorists. |
| 12/20/73 | USA | Oakland, CA | 1 | 0 | Nation of Islam terrorists gun down an 81-year-old janitor. |
| 12/22/73 | USA | Oakland, CA | 2 | 0 | Nation of Islam terrorist kills two people in separate attacks on the same day. |
| 12/24/73 | USA | Oakland, CA | 1 | 0 | A man is kidnapped, tortured and decapitated by Nation of Islam terrorists. |
| 01/24/74 | USA | Oakland, CA | 4 | 1 | Five vicious shooting attacks by Nation of Islam terrorists leave three people dead and one paralyzed for life. Three of the victims were women. |
| 04/01/74 | USA | Oakland, CA | 1 | 1 | A Nation of Islam terrorist shoots at two Salvation Army members, killing a man and injuring a woman. |
| 04/16/74 | USA | Ingleside, CA | 1 | 0 | A man is killed while helping a friend move by Nation of Islam terrorists. |
| 03/09/77 | USA | Washington, DC | 1 | 1 | Hanifi Muslims storm three buildings including a B’nai B’rith to hold 134 people hostage. At least two innocents were shot and one died. |
| 07/22/80 | USA | Bethesda, MD | 1 | 0 | A political dissident is shot and killed in front of his home by an Iranian agent who was an American convert to Islam. |
| 08/31/80 | USA | Savou, IL | 2 | 0 | An Iranian student guns down his next-door neighbors, a husband and wife. |
| 11/06/89 | USA | St. Louis, MO | 1 | 0 | A 17-year-old girl is stabbed to death by her parents for bringing ‘dishonor’ to their family by dating an ‘infidel’ African-American. |
| 01/31/90 | USA | Tuscon, AZ | 1 | 0 | A Sunni cleric is assassinated in front of a Tuscon mosque after declaring that two verses of the Qur’an were invalid. |
| 11/05/90 | USA | New York City, NY | 1 | 0 | An Israeli rabbi is shot to death by a Muslim attacker at a hotel. |
| 01/25/93 | USA | Langley, VA | 2 | 3 | A Pakistani with Mujahideen ties guns down two CIA agents outside of the headquarters. |
| 02/26/93 | USA | New York, NY | 6 | 1040 | Islamic terrorists detonate a massive truck bomb under the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring over 1,000 in an effort to collapse the towers. |
| 03/01/94 | USA | Brooklyn, NY | 1 | 0 | A Muslim gunman targets a van packed with Jewish boys, killing a 16-year-old. |
| 03/23/97 | USA | New York, NY | 1 | 6 | A Palestinian leaves an anti-Jewish suicide note behind and travels to the top of the Empire State building where he shoot seven people in a Fedayeen attack. |
| 04/03/97 | USA | Lompoc, CA | 1 | 0 | A prison guard is stabbed to death by a radical Muslim. |
| 03/17/00 | USA | Atlanta, GA | 1 | 1 | A local imam and Muslim spiritual leader guns down a deputy sheriff and injures his partner. |
| 09/11/01 | USA | Shanksville, PA | 40 | 0 | Forty passengers are killed after Islamic radicals hijack the plane in an attempt to steer it into the U.S. Capitol building. |
| 09/11/01 | USA | Washington, DC | 184 | 53 | Nearly 200 people are killed when Islamic hijackers steer a plane full of people into the Pentagon. |
| 09/11/01 | USA | New York, NY | 2752 | 251 | Islamic hijackers steer two planes packed with fuel and passengers into the World Trade Center, killing hundreds on impact and eventually killing thousands when the towers collapsed. At least 200 are seriously injured. |
| 03/19/02 | USA | Tuscon, AZ | 1 | 0 | A 60-year-old man is gunned down by Muslim snipers on a golf course. |
| 05/27/02 | USA | Denton, TX | 1 | 0 | Muslim snipers kill a man as he works in his yard. |
| 07/04/02 | USA | Los Angeles, CA | 2 | 0 | Muslim man pulls out a gun at the counter of an Israeli airline and kills two people. |
| 09/05/02 | USA | Clinton, MD | 1 | 0 | A 55-year-old pizzaria owner is shot six times in the back by Muslims at close range. |
| 09/21/02 | USA | Montgomery, AL | 1 | 1 | Muslim snipers shoot two women, killing one. |
| 09/23/02 | USA | Baton Rouge, LA | 1 | 0 | A Korean mother is shot in the back by Muslim snipers. |
| 10/02/02 | USA | Wheaton, MD | 1 | 0 | Muslim snipers gun down a program analyst in a store parking lot. |
| 10/03/02 | USA | Montgomery County, MD | 5 | 0 | Muslim snipers kill three men and two women in separate attacks over a 15-hour period. |
| 10/09/02 | USA | Manassas, VA | 1 | 1 | A man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas two days after a 13-year-old is wounded by the same team. |
| 10/11/02 | USA | Fredericksburg, VA | 1 | 0 | Another man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas. |
| 10/14/02 | USA | Arlington, VA | 1 | 0 | A woman is killed by Muslim snipers in a Home Depot parking lot. |
| 10/22/02 | USA | Aspen Hill, MD | 1 | 0 | A bus driver is killed by Muslim snipers. |
| 08/06/03 | USA | Houston, TX | 1 | 0 | After undergoing a ‘religious revival’, a Saudi college student slashes the throat of a Jewish student with a 4″ butterfly knife, nearly decapitating the young man. |
| 04/15/04 | USA | Scottsville, NY | 1 | 2 | In an honor killing, a Muslim father kills his wife and attacks his two daughters with a knife and hammer because he feared that they had been sexually molested. |
| 06/16/06 | USA | Baltimore, MD | 1 | 0 | A 62-year-old Jewish moviegoer is shot to death by a Muslim medical student in an unprovoked terror attack. |
| 06/25/06 | USA | Denver, CO | 1 | 5 | Saying that it was ‘Allah’s choice’, a Muslim shoots four of his co-workers and a police officer. |
| 07/28/06 | USA | Seattle, WA | 1 | 5 | An ‘angry’ Muslim-American uses a young girl as hostage to enter a local Jewish center, where he shoots six women, one of whom dies. |
| 01/01/08 | USA | Irving, TX | 2 | 0 | A Muslim immigrant shoots his two daughters to death on concerns about their ‘Western’ lifestyle. |
| 07/06/08 | USA | Jonesboro, GA | 1 | 0 | A devout Muslim strangles his 25-year-old daughter in an honor killing. |
| 02/12/09 | USA | Buffalo, NY | 1 | 0 | The founder of a Muslim TV station beheads his wife in the hallway for seeking a divorce. |
| 04/12/09 | USA | Phoenix, AZ | 2 | 0 | A man shoots his brother-in-law and another man to death after finding out that they visited a strip club, in contradiction to Islamic values. |
| 06/01/09 | USA | Little Rock, AR | 1 | 1 | A Muslim shoots a local soldier to death inside a recruiting center explicitly in the name of Allah. |
| 11/02/09 | USA | Glendale, AZ | 1 | 1 | A woman dies from injuries suffered when her father runs her down with a car for being too ‘Westernized.’ (10-20-09) |
| 11/05/09 | USA | Ft. Hood, TX | 13 | 31 | A Muslim psychiatrist guns down thirteen unarmed soldiers while yelling praises to Allah. |
| 12/04/09 | USA | Binghamton, NY | 1 | 0 | A non-Muslim Islamic studies professor is stabbed to death by a Muslim grad student in revenge for ‘persecuted’ Muslims. |
| 04/14/10 | USA | Marquette Park, IL | 5 | 2 | After quarrelling with his wife over Islamic dress, a Muslim convert shoots his family members to ‘take them back to Allah’ and out of the ‘world of sinners’. |
| 04/30/11 | USA | Warren, MI | 1 | 0 | A 20-year-old woman is shot in the head by her stepfather for not adhering to Islamic practices. |
| 09/11/11 | USA | Waltham, MA | 3 | 0 | Three Jewish men have their throats slashed by Muslim terrorists. |
| 01/15/12 | USA | Houston, TX | 1 | 0 | A 30-year-old Christian convert is shot to death by a devout Muslim for helping to convert his daughter. |
| 11/12/12 | USA | Houston, TX | 1 | 0 | A 28-year-old American man is shot to death by a conservative Muslim over an alleged role in converting a woman to Christianity. |
| 02/07/13 | USA | Buena Vista, NJ | 2 | 0 | A Muslim targets and beheads two Christian Coptic immigrants. |
| 03/24/13 | USA | Ashtabula, OH | 1 | 0 | A Muslim convert walks into a church service with a Quran and guns down his Christian father while praising Allah. |
| 04/15/13 | USA | Boston, MA | 3 | 264 | Foreign-born Muslims describing themselves as ‘very religious’ detonate two bombs packed with ball bearings at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and causing several more to lose limbs. |
| 04/19/13 | USA | Boston, MA | 1 | 1 | Jihadists gun down a university police officer sitting in his car. |
| 08/04/13 | USA | Richmond, CA | 1 | 0 | A convert “on a mission from Allah” stabs a store clerk to death. |
| 03/06/14 | USA | Port Bolivar, TX | 2 | 0 | A Muslim man shoots his lesbian daughter and her lover to death and leaves a copy of the Quran open to a page condemning homosexuality. |
| 04/27/14 | USA | Skyway, WA | 1 | 0 | A 30-year-old man is murdered by a Muslim fanatic. |
| 06/01/14 | USA | Seattle, WA | 2 | 0 | Two homosexuals are murdered by an Islamic extremist. |
| 06/25/14 | USA | West Orange, NJ | 1 | 0 | A 19-year-old college student is shot to death ‘in revenge’ for Muslim deaths overseas. |
| 09/25/14 | USA | Moore, OK | 1 | 1 | A Sharia advocate beheads a woman after calling for Islamic terror and posting an Islamist beheading photo. |
| 07/16/15 | USA | Chattanooga | 5 | 2 | A ‘devout Muslim’ stages a suicide attack on a recruiting center at a strip mall and a naval center which leaves five dead. |
| 12/02/15 | USA | San Bernardino, CA | 14 | 17 | A ‘very religious’ Muslim shoots up a Christmas party with his wife, leaving fourteen dead. |
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/americanattacks.htm
Hmmm…the evidence once again does not support the author’s allegation that white Christian males are the main drivers of mass gun violence in the United States. As a matter of fact, let us examine the demographic breakdown of our own US military. These are the same soldiers who ‘utilize firearms’ to actually protect US citizens in addition to the author’s constitutionally protected right to spew forth this twisted Leftist propaganda.
Hmmm…what a surprise, it seems that “white Christian males” happen to make up the majority of the US military. It’s the very same military which has fought and died in our all our wars right up to the present day. In no way do I intend to slight the sacrifices made by soldiers of all sexes, creeds and colors in defense of our Nation, but this simple demographic breakdown is necessary to correct the vile and twisted accusations made the authors ‘opinion piece’.
So what makes the face of the New Hampshire Progressive so ugly?
The NH Progressive has the unique habit of cursing New Hampshire while they enjoy the quality of life directly attributable to its population and culture.
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