Rick Olson

Rick Olson is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, and a graduate of Southern New Hampshire University with a BA in Social Science. Rick subsequently attended Massachusetts School of Law in Andover MA. Rick takes up second amendment issues on Granite Grok, as well as issues surrounding hunting, fishing, trapping and wildlife issues. Rick Olson is a former Police Officer and Deputy Sheriff. He is Past President of the New Hampshire Wildlife Federation, President of the Londonderry Fish & Game Club  Rick is a nationally certified firearms instructor and a Hunter Education Instructor. He can frequently be found teaching Urban Rifle and Defensive Pistol classes as an Instructor with Defensive Strategies in Goffstown, NH.  Rick resides in Manchester with his wife Lisa. He has four children and ten Grandchildren.

We have never lived in a “Constitutional Republic”.

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”—Thomas Jefferson

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N.H. House Rep. David B. Karrick, (D) Merrimack Dist. 25, Warner

These very words were not spoken…but put in writing on during an email exchange between house reps. Representative David B. Karrick, DemocRAT, Merrimack District 25, Warner stated in the Palm Sunday email:

“We have never lived in a “Constitutional Republic“. Our founders created a Republic where the rights and privileges of the propertied citizens were greater than those without advantages or personal freedom.”-Rep David B. Karrick

During the founding years our forefathers ascribed to the notion

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Gratuitous Liberal Cowardice

“Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don’t sit in the dark hiding. It’s easy to hide and shout and waste people’s time.”    —Billy Connolly

Ben Sarro, Live and Local Morning Show host on 99.7 WNTK-FM in New London
Ben Sarro, Live and Local Morning Show host on 99.7 WNTK-FM in New London

Ben Sarro, morning host of WNTK FM 99.7 related to me an anonymous e-mail he received from a listener. Ben had Jenn Coffey on  this morning from the Second Amendment Sisters. From the context of the e-mail…sent anonymously, the discussion likely encompassed self-protection and police response times.

“You both made comments about people who live too far from police coverage and how risky it is for them to be safe when the police are so far away. To me, this felt like fear mongering. How many times does this happen really? Are there documented cases in New Hampshire of people calling the police for protection,

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The Anthony “Weiner Of Worcester,” Massachusetts

“We’re trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we’re trying to get to the bottom of what it’s of and who it’s of.”    —Anthony Weiner

Representative John P. Fresolo, (D) 16th District a/k/a the "Worcester Wiener"
Representative John P. Fresolo, (D) 16th District a/k/a the “Worcester Wiener”

Pre-Raphaelite Artist John Everett Millais was subtle in his 1848 painting of Isabella, where back in September, it was discovered that Millias had eluded on canvas, a character in the foreground with what appears to be an erection. But oh how those progressive sensibilities have become so callous! Enter the era of the New York Weiner…ergo, the “Worcester Weiner.”

State Representative John Fresolo, a Worcester Democrat, was placed on (paid)leave today for taking lascivious photos of his “phallic enrichments,” thereafter posting  them to the computer of  a female State House aide.

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Tobacco Tax Increase: The Progressives Racism And Class Warfare?

“Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is not fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.” ? B.R. Ambedkar

photos-of-extinguished-cigarette - Tobacco taxes in danger thanks to ObamacareI read Steve’s entry this morning on the tobacco tax increase the house progressives just passed. HB 659-FN-A   passed 193 to 167 largely right along party lines, bringing along the usual recognizable (and some Freshman) RINO’s. I think anybody that follows house voting behavior is not at all surprised or intrigued because those RINO’s sipping the progressive Kool-Aid ascribe to the notion that somehow fewer kids will smoke as the price of a pack increases. But the fact is, kids do pay taxes. When a 13-year-old

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The Ugly Face Of Tyranny

“We just can’t trust the American people to make those types of choices…. Government has to make those choices for people.” — Hilary Rodham Clinton  

Why The Town Of Durham Is Arbitrary To Landlords

“Even in Hell the peasant will have to serve the landlord, for, while the landlord is boiling in a cauldron the peasant will have to put wood under it” —Russian Proverb

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The Union Leader featured a story on Monday night, “Durham to landlords: Safety standards stand.” Landlords (or to use the contemporary term) Property Owners, get a bad rap. When one reads the aforementioned story, it paints a very glib picture…allows the reader to “fill in the blanks.” 

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For Rental Property Owners

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it’s enough.” —Author Unknown

landlordconnectionSo reads the quote at the top of the Landlord Connection, Inc.‘s website. I very rarely outright endorse a service in any of my writings. But today, if there is a service never more worthy of such, it is Landlord Connection. I have used Landlord Connection for over 12 years to screen prospective tenants seeking to rent from me.

Any person who owns rental property and does not have

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Gun Grabbers and the Firearms Commerce Stream

“A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.” —Hugh Kingsmill (British writer and critic. 1889-1949)

Ammo ShortageUSA Today: February 13, 2013: “Gun Dealers Report Shortages of Ammunition”

The Inquisitor: 2/18/2013: “The Great Ammo Shortage Of 2013 Continues.”

CNN Money: 3/12/2013: “Gun shops face massive ammunition shortage”

Huffington Post: 1/16/2013: “Ammo Shortages Widespread, Gun Stocks Surge As Obama Pushes For Tighter Controls .”

The Daily Caller: 2/18/2013: “Gun dealers report striking ammunition shortages.”

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The Shrill Kathy On Fame And Infamy

“Let your family, staff, and friends know that you’re still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.” —Donald Rumsfeld 

Kathy_Sullivan_Shrill_KathyKathy Sullivan, in an opposite editorial yesterday asked in the Union Leader, “Is Bill O’Brien really better known than Franklin Pierce? Naturally, this was yet another hit piece on Bill O’Brien. Ben Franklin once quipped, “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

Politics meets social science. Result?  A conflation of unintended consequences… the outcomes of which were neither foreseen nor intended.  It was the

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Petition to Oppose HB 135

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

The “Gun Nuts” Liberals Pretend Do Not Exist

“Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again” —Sen. Chris Dodd, on the campaign trail.

Fingers_In_EarsThere certainly is no shortage of left-wing talking points disparaging those of us who are vocal, unapologetic and loud in defending the individual right of citizens to, “keep and bear arms.” Remember Obama’s quip,

“And it’s not surprising then they get

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More Liberal Lies About Background Checks

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”  —Mark Twain

biden-malarkeySince  January, Gun Grabbers have been tossing numbers around in support of why we need universal background checks. President Obama parroted the talking point back in January stating, “As many as 40 percent of guns are purchased without a background check.”

The New York Times, USA Today, The LA Times, the Washington Post, The Brady Campaign, and a whole host of others have repeatedly made the claim. On January 24, however, Professor John Lott, in writing for

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Conservatives Financially Supporting American Progressivism?

“Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.”  —Christopher Lasch

Progressive_Flo_CommunistaYes. It is true. Wittingly or unwittingly, Many liberty-minded, Constitutional Conservatives are financially supporting Socialist-Progressive causes in America. Want to know for sure? Talk insurance. Specifically, Progressive Insurance. You know whom I speak of. The insurance company with the ubiquitous cute ads featuring “Flo”.

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Gabby Giffords Husband Buys An AR-15…NOT!

“A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.”  —Bill Cosby

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Mark Kelly making a gun purchase – Breitbart.com

On 9 March, Breitbart’s AWR Hawkins reported that Former Astronaut and Congressman Giffords husband Mark Kelly, “purchased” an AR-15 and subsequently announced on his Facebook page that he was not going to keep the AR-15, which he has yet to pick up from the store.

Days after making the purchases, Kelly wrote on Facebook: I just had a background check a few days ago

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A Visit With Madame Curie

Liberty Harbor Academy Presents… A Visit with Madame Curie by Susan Marie Frontczak, Storysmith Tuesday, April 2 – 6:00-7:00 PM Liberty Harbor Academy, 1230 Elm St. Manchester, NH Marie Curie is best know for the discovery of radium and radioactivity but few understand the obstacles  she faced just to get into the laboratory. From the … Read more

Lunch With Sociologist Opining About Guns

“We’re uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It’s classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.”  —Jared Diamond

Multivariate Social ScientistI had lunch recently with a close friend with whom I attended college some years ago. He continued his education and is now a PhD. He is not a “lefty” sort of guy, but he isn’t a conservative-libertarian either. But with Social Scientists now weighing in on the gun debate, attempt to convey clarity, ambivalence is the net product.  In our conversation over lunch he conveyed his thoughts about guns. Specifically,  this thought:

“All too often following one of these mass shootings that garners national attention, the attempt to meaningfully discuss solutions to gun violence in America is muted and we fail to find any meaningful consensus regarding what we as a society can do to address gun violence.”

To qualify his remark he added,

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Taxpayers Are Boring

  Representative Cynthia Chase (D) Cheshire Dist. 8 Keene ponders the bill seeking to increase the taxes on gasoline her constituents will pay has obviously decided her vote and deliberates and ponders further over a game of Solitaire on her iPad.

No Second Amendment Right Anywhere Else But America

“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.” — George Washington

A weapons Guide for the uninformedThe never ending gun policy debate. Wrought with fraud and declared upon the graves of dead children and teachers, the Newtown Massacre has been the new genesis for the current debate over citizens right to own and possess firearms. In the current political climate, the quotidian quips of vociferous faux Expositors of anti-gun rhetoric abound endlessly with claims made of whole cloth and cherry-picked facts that belie logic and truth.

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The U.S. Army And Recruits as Chattel

“The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.”   —Tom Lehrer

Army_logoThis story was related to me by a friend. A son of his  friend is at the crossroads of life choices after high school. Entertaining the possibility of enlistment in the Army, he decided to take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. (also know as them “ASVAB”). With his inclination toward Army enlistment, he subsequently arranged with the Army recruiter to take the test.

With two locations to chose from for taking the test, either Boston  or Portland, ME. The young fellow picks Portland. The day of testing arrives

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