Brad Cook is a lawyer. According to the Sheehan-Phinney Website, his focus is Estate Planning and Probate, Government Relations and Not-for-Profit, Charitable and Religious Institutions Practice Groups. This all sounds wonderful. But it’s obvious he knows very little about firearms and “the law” even though he is a lawyer.
He’s probably loads smarter than little ol’ me. Maybe too smart. Why else would he write something like this?
The problem is that, in New Hampshire, almost any adult can lawfully walk into a fifth-grade class, or any others, filled with 10- and 11-year-old-boys and girls with a loaded gun and no gun permit. There is no law in New Hampshire that can stop them.
Who can tell me what’s wrong with this? I see a lot of hands because there is more than one answer.
Name One Criminal in a Shooting Who Followed the Law?
First, there is a law that prohibits someone with a loaded gun walking into a fifth-grade class filled with 10- and 11-year-old-boys and girls or children of any age. Federal Law prohibits it. You must have a carry permit issued by some state or local authority to legally walk on school grounds or into any school building with a firearm. Period.
You need ‘a permit.’
The police chief doesn’t typically issue those to anyone who can’t pass a federal background check. These are law-abiding citizens who suborned their second-amendment rights to the will and force of government.
They asked permission and received it.
Second, even for someone who illegally obtained a firearm (and had to forego the option of a carry license), there is no law anywhere that can stop them.
There is no law anywhere that can stop anyone from doing anything.
Murder’s illegal. Shouldn’t that stop people from committing it our classrooms? If that’s not enough what other law do you think you can craft that might? There isn’t one.
You’d think a lawyer at Sheehan-Phinney would know that.
Why Am I Telling A Lawyer About the Law?
The law exists to set boundaries for a just and moral people. Like the young woman who chooses to get the optional carry license for self-defense nearly anywhere she might be attacked. No, the license does not protect her any more than the law. But the firearm does. A tool that could mean the difference between being raped or murdered before the police even know you’ve been assaulted.
The law also exists to punish those who operate outside it. But always after the fact. Otherwise, we’d be living in tyranny. So make all the laws you want, not a one will prevent a criminal from shooting up your local middle school. But you can pass laws that could encourage it.
The “reasonable” suggestion Brad Cook makes to address a problem that “no law can fix” would disarm law-abiding citizens and leave those 10- and 11-year-old-boys and girls defenseless.
Nearly every active shooter incident ends when good-guys with guns show up to shoot back.
And for the record, parents with loaded firearms have been walking into NewHampshire public schools for as long as we’ve had them. How many shootings have we had in those schools? I’m a little fuzzy on the history but I think it sounds a lot like zero. None.
Get Your Gun Free Zone Here!
Brad’s support for Democrat legisaltive proposals to allow local school districts to ban guns on school grounds would increase the time it takes for good guys with guns to arrive.
The longer it takes, the higher the body count.
How many teachers, staff, and children are we prepared to sacrifice to this ridiculous idea?
If Democrats (with the help of Republicans) get their way, you will get that chance at an upcoming school board meeting. Held somewhere near where your boys and girls would not just be left defenseless against people who will not follow the law. They would be sitting in an advertised gun-free zone.
Why isn’t that a bigger safety concern?
Because proposals to eat away at the edges have nothing to do with children or their safety, it’s just another soft target for the Left to push state-wide and national gun ban and gun control policy.
A policy that uses the bodies of dead children Democrats left unprotected to ban more guns in more places.
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