Steve MacDonald

We’ve observed on these pages repeatedly that the left’s opposition to private gun ownership has nothing to do with violence as they describe it.   Opposition to private gun ownership creates more of the violence they say they wish to prevent.

It is no secret that the liberal elites have no problem with guns.  They are not afraid of guns, nor fearful of people armed with guns.  If they were the bodyguards of the leftist elite would not be armed, and they would have opposed the militarization of cabinet level agencies and federal and local police forces; they do not oppose these things, they encourage them.

Liberals need guns….in the hands of people they believe they can control, who can protect them and their government,  because liberals love violence.

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“…there is no reason to change it now.” – Zandra Rice Hawkins, Granite State Progress

In her comments on yesterday’s discussion of SB 116 – “Constitutional Carry” – Miz Hawkins relies on 90 years of profiling folks to determine who is and who isn’t “suitable” enough to be allowed to discretely carry a loaded firearm.  She touts the 1923 NH Senate’s decision that “un-naturalized, foreign born” persons – mostly Irish and Italian – were not “suitable” as a “common-sense law“.

Normally, GSP’s anti-gun remarks can be transcribed as “blah blah blah guns bad blah blah blah dead children blah blah blah mental illness is a crime blah blah blah“, but I decided to take a moment and reply to her discriminatory, and yes, ultimately sexist, mendacity on a point by point basis:

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I was completely taken aback by this video…

As I see it, there are multiple factors at play here:

• Muslim extremism is slowly creeping its way into American culture – more rapidly every year.
• Muslim extremists, piggy-backing on the methods of the American Left, are using American Universities as seed beds for their efforts.
• Anti-Semites are using minority persecution and “anti-colonialism” in the name of their fight for freedom.  Another Leftist mind trick.
• US Unions are being brought into the fight, in the name of “Solidarity”.
• This type of behavior could soon seep its way into our public schools, just as global warming, misguided social justice, and revisionist history already have.

If you have any Jewish friends about to send their child to college, I would…

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Guest post by Michelle Levell.

On the surface, SB 157 is reasonable. It would require a civics test as a condition for high school graduation. Many liberty and conservative leaning people would agree that our students should know the US Constitution and NH Constitution. However, the issue is more complicated than good intentions.

Although the sponsors have an amendment that would remove the requirement for home-schoolers and special education students, many of the flaws remain.

Regardless of the subject matter or intent, the legislature should not be involved in telling school districts what should be required for graduation or taught in the schools. Any New Hampshire school district could require a similar civics class or test, but coming from the legislature, it becomes an unfunded mandate, against Part 1 Article 28-A of the NH Constitution.

The body authorized for setting graduation requirements is the local school boards. They may determine what is appropriate for their districts. It should not be dictated by the state, whether it is the Department of Education, the Board of Education, or the legislature.

What else is wrong with this bill…?

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Any woman in Vermont legally allowed to carry a firearm under federal law can carry concealed without a permit.  This means that no man ever really knows if she is armed.

Does that matter?  It does to women in Vermont.

Since the year 2000 there are an average of 68% fewer rapes per 100,000 citizens in Vermont than in New Hampshire.

Democrats like the mad moms for more violence, the pro-crime out-of state funded lobbyists at Granite State Progress, NH Police chiefs, the New Castle promises more rapes folks, and NH State Senator David Pierce, are all opposed to allowing women in New Hampshire the same rights as women in Vermont.   Women who can carry concealed without a permit and are safer than women in New Hampshire.

Is such opposition a result of their devotion to their blind and ignorant ideology?  Maybe, but what if it is just about  money?

If Susan Bruce is speaking for all the NH Democrats then leaving 68% more women at risk for rape in the Granite State is a fair trade for $900,000.00.

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There is an overlooked paragraph in president Obama’s 2016 budget fact sheet that might actually prove useful to real people trying to find work in the real world.

Reducing Unnecessary Occupational Licensing. The Budget seeks to reduce occupational licensing barriers that keep people from doing the jobs they have the skills to do by putting in place unnecessary training and high fees.

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