Part 3 – Testimony on behalf of HB564 – relative to possession of firearms in safe school zones - Granite Grok

Part 3 – Testimony on behalf of HB564 – relative to possession of firearms in safe school zones

At the end of Part 2, I started to lay out a curated list of what Progressives have said about how they view us, how they view government, and how they believe they have the right to use the latter to Rule the former. Here’s the “to be continued bit”.

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  • NH State Rep Kris Roberts (D): “Government has to protect us from our own stupidity.”
  • NH State Rep Leigh Webb (D): “The role of government is to legislate behavior
  • NH State Rep Laura Pantelakos (D): “I don’t care about protecting peoples’ Liberty
  • NH State Rep John Mann (D): “liberty” is either an ideology or a gross misrepresentation and oversimplification (accidental or otherwise) of what government is for.”
  • NH State Rep Cynthia Chase (D): (concerning the Free State Project): “What we can do is make the environment here so unwelcoming that some will choose not to come, and some may actually leave. One way is to pass measures that will restrict freedoms that they think they will find here.”
  • NH State Rep. Debra DeSimone (R): “The Constitution is a guideline
  • NH State Rep. Sandra Keans (R, now D): “I don’t try to justify anything by the Constitution, it’s not my job and I don’t want to do it”.
  • NH State Rep. Suzanne Mercer Vail (D): “One rarely considered consequence of the Free State Project, will be the formation of another form of government. The aim is to overpower the state government. The method is to weaken the laws of New Hampshire, creating more freedom and liberty in a state where that is maxed.”
  •  NH State Rep. Susan Almy (D): “Well, you don’t get to decide what is Constitutional and I don’t get to decide what is Constitutional, the judiciary decides what is Constitutional”.

I will stop my verbal testimony here but be sure, there are a lot of non-NH based politicians in the similar vein but let me go to my conclusion:

  • Former US Secretary of State, US Senator and First Lady Hillary Clinton:
    • We just can’t trust the American people to make those types of choices…Government has to make those choices for people.
    • We need to stop worrying about the rights of the individual and start worrying about what is best for society!”
    • And one that rings VERY true to the Second Amendment supporters here today: We’re going to take things away from you” – Hillary Clinton, June 2004
    • “Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”
    • We think the government, by saying, ‘You have to make this schedule. You have to have your kids in for inoculations here, you have to do a pre-screening here, you have to do this’ — the government will make better decisions than the people will make, and people will be healthier because of it.”
  • President Obama (D-Il):
    • …that my individual salvation is not going to come about without a collective salvation for the country. Unfortunately, I think that recognition requires that we make sacrifices and this country has not always been willing to make the sacrifices that are necessary to bring about a new day and a new age.”
    • In America we have this strong bias toward individual action. You know, we idolize the John Wayne hero who comes in to correct things with both guns blazing. But individual actions, individual dreams, are not sufficient. We must unite in collective action, build collective institutions and organizations.

Sorry, those are not choices that politicians should, or even think they should, be able to make for others.

 

TO BE CONTINUED.

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