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OK, tonite, I’ve got nuttin – but there’s a lotta folks out there that do.  From RedState, Bonchie points out that the Left’s claim to “right to be safe”, especially those of the teen survivors from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School murders that have gone full political, is sheer nonsense. Emphasis mine:

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There is no right to public safety. There are laws which seek to provide that environment, but you can not have a right to something which relies on the positive action of others for it to be exercised. This is the same reason there can never be a right to healthcare. Not because it’s not a noble goal, but because we don’t have a right to force a doctor to treat us.

Even then, it’s not really true that public safety is a primary core function of the constitution. I’m guessing he’s taking that from the often misused general welfare clause, but in noway does that line empower the government to override individual rights. The Bill of Rights supersedes any law or action the government may enact.

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As to be expected, the Left is not letting a crisis go to waste.  They’ve marshalled their forces for the regular emotional political shove that I’ve been watching for years and combining it with “it’s for the children”.  And part of the regular S.O.P for Progressives:

• Work to silence the opposition by any means possible
• Hurt them financially

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As seen on FB (emphasis mine):

Here are some interesting facts (in case you accidentally find someone interested in such things):

There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. U.S. population 324,059,091 as of Wednesday, June 22, 2016. Do the math: 0.000000925% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant! What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death:

• 65% of those deaths are by suicide which would never be prevented by gun laws
• 15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and justified
• 17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug related or mentally ill persons – gun violence
• 3% are accidental discharge deaths

So technically, “gun violence” is not 30,000 annually, but drops to 5,100. Still too many? Well, first, how are those deaths spanned across the nation?

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All that does is make it nigh onto impossible for the average person to figure out who is goring their wallets.  It doesn’t solve the problem:

Year after year I am saddened to see my town continually divided over the ability or inability of its citizens to afford an increase in our property taxes.

At every town meeting, a group of residents approaches the microphone to explain how they are living on a fixed income and will be forced to move from the town they’ve lived in all their lives if taxes increase. Another group approaches the mic and talks about how we cannot afford not to increase the school budget or town budget to pay for vital building expansions or services. And both groups are right. What’s wrong is the way we are asked to share the burden.

I believe Hampshire citizens know at a gut level that a property tax is not an equitable way to tax people…

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“Hanson also said the debate over gun control needs to be one of facts, not emotions…“

Guns, that is – either open or concealed.  I have to admit, I’m glad to see that the Concord Monitor actually quoted him on this important piece of news and I was unaware of all of his certifications in this area (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Keith Hanson, conservative talk radio show host

..Not only that, but Hanson said Supreme Court cases, such as Warren v. District of Columbia (1981), have found that members of law enforcement do not have an individual duty to protect people.

The only people who can really protect us from mass shootings, Hanson said, is ourselves. He’s supportive of teachers who have demonstrated proficiency with a firearm serving as immediate first responders and force multipliers in an active shooting incident. He argued that a teacher’s innate desire to protect their students from a threat would spur them to act.

“There’s one thing a cursory study of history will tell us, which is that criminals, bullies, thugs and tyrants often only respect one thing, and that’s a force equal to or greater than the force they are capable of using,” Hanson said.

Hanson also said the debate over gun control needs to be one of facts, not emotions,

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SHOT: Obama Says Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back

“When somebody says like the person you just mentioned who I’m not going to advertise for, that he’s going to bring all these jobs back. Well how exactly are you going to do that? What are you going to do? There’s no answer to it,” Obama said, refusing to even say Trump’s name.

“He just says, ‘I’m going to negotiate a better deal.’ Well how? How exactly are you going to negotiate that? What magic wand do you have? And usually the answer is, he doesn’t have an answer,”

CHASER: Manufacturers to American Workers: We’re Hiring.

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Massive Overnight Twitter Purge Outrages Conservatives.

“Users locked out of accounts, lose thousands of followers.”

Plus: “Gab TV broadcast the reports they are getting by the thousands of people locked out. Twitter seems to be labeling Trump supporters ‘Russian bots’ and banning them until they provide confidential information most people don’t want Twitter to have.”

My account seems unaffected, but I’m good about blocking bots just as soon as they start following me. So I suspect Twitter really is purging fake accounts — but so far they seem to be letting leftwing bots slide.

More at the post:

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Well, well, with all of the other news going on this week, look what’s happening now – another campaign promise kept (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Border wall work begins in downtown Calexico

The federal government began work Wednesday to replace a section of border wall in California, the first wall contract awarded in the Trump administration outside of eight prototypes that were built last year in San Diego. Customs and Border Protection is replacing a little more than two miles in downtown Calexico, a sliver of the president’s plan for a “big, beautiful wall” with Mexico. A barrier built in the 1990s from recycled metal scraps and landing mat will be torn down for bollard-style posts that are 30 feet high, significantly taller than existing walls…In November, SWF Constructors of Omaha, Neb., won a contract for $18 million to replace the wall in Calexico, about 120 miles east of San Diego. It encompasses an area bisected by the New River, where smugglers are known to guide people through polluted waters. The project, which includes a bridge over the river, is expected to take 300 days.

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As I have been blogging about the Windham School Board’s seemingly problematic process in implementing their Transgender bathroom/locker room policy, I decided to ask further. Given that they receive State tax funding, I find it entirely appropriate that NH’s Right To Know (RTK) law, as enshrined in RSA 91-A, should be used.  A government that is open and transparent should be the aspirational model we all seek. When Government, at any level, is not transparent, bad things happen (“the road to hell is paved with good intentions” is only the best case scenario).  I do have some materials that a number of birdies have tweeted over – something ain’t jiving well here.  So let’s either let them use their own Big Flashlights on themselves – or we’ll shine ours on them.

SAU93.org
Windham School District / Board
19 Haverhill Rd
Windham, NH 03087

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That bit in the Constitution about “shall not be infringed” – meh, only a technicality or “guidance” (at best)

(H/T: Newbusters)

Here’s a few other morsels of “we aren’t going going to take away your guns”…

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UPDATE Confirmed:

Subject: School Board Meeting Location Changed
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:10:02 +0000
From: Windham School District <noreply@windhamsd.org>
Reply-To: Windham School District <noreply@windhamsd.org>
To: <redacted>

The location for the Windham School Board Meeting scheduled for tomorrow, Feb 20 has been changed to the Windham High School.

School Board Meeting Posting

This is the meeting at which the Windham School Board is going to discuss their JBAB policy.  I guess some little birdies told the head honcho that the jig was up on trying to use a smaller room than what might be needed to get the meeting canceled due to [deliberate] overcrowding.  Good for the good guys!

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“…transgenderism is a belief system that increasingly looks like a cultish religion—a modern-day Gnosticism denying physical reality for deceived perceptions—being forced on the public by the state”.

Well, tonite is the night that Rob Breton, Dennis Senibaldi and Keleigh McAllister will be facing the music – and probably not tunes they wish to listen to.  And elections are coming up, to boot!  Since I can’t be there, I did write down some ideas on the JBAB policy (“Transgender Bathroom bill for Windham Schools”) and applied what should be our MOST fundamental Law concerning what they are foisting upon the good folk of Windham.  That, of course, would be both the US and NH Constitutions.  There’s one particular section that is rather egregious in its overreach and liberty hating thrust in ignoring what should be concrete, steel hardened, fences that limit the reach and intrusiveness of Government into individuals’ lives (but then again, Progressives hate the Constitution, so no biggie for them). Guidance C (emphasis mine):

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