Daniel Horowitz is ringing an alarm bell with the help or Republican Rep. Thomas Massie.

When Congress passed national reciprocity, it also passed Fix NICS legislation. At the time Rep. Massie warned that in the US Senate, as soon as there was another shooting, Senate Republicans would drop reciprocity and bring Fix NICS to the floor. When it got back to the House, Leadership would say, you passed this before…and that’s what they are doing.

A few Senators have stepped up to slow the cramming of this attack on your right to self-defense down our throats, but we only have a few days.

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I love it when liberals embrace the power and risk of private business ownership.

The Used Apple Store posted to its Facebook page on Monday that the company will refuse services to those affiliated with the Republican party. How can they tell which customers are Republican? Well, they just know, store owner Billy Williams told NH1 on Tuesday. 

The Used Apple Store refusing service is a form of a protest against what the Republican Party stands for, he said.

“Well, they just know?”

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The House Finance Committee had a work session on the HB 628, which implements an income tax under cover of a scheme to provide “state-funded” Family Medical Leave Insurance (FMLI) for short-term disability coverage. The progressives on both sides just want the taxing authority and but their mule of choice is a fiscal and administrative disaster.

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We all know, from media reports, how Delta Airlines submitted to pressure regarding the recent school security failure at a massive 3,000 student high school in Florida. This vast student factory had that single, incompetent, coward, for a “resource officer.” That “officer” was supervised by the now utterly discredited, and apparently mentally unstable, elected, Broward County Sheriff.

But did you know how Delta was brought to its knees and who did it?

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Open borders policies provide drug cartels with conduits for Heroin and Fentanyl. DACA (inadvertently?) provides armies of young adults for gang recruitment. And sanctuary cities (and states) give cartels and illegals working for them more room to operate.

Jessica Vaughn from the Center for Immigration Studies explains.

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The following companies caved to liberal pressure by blaming the NRA because the NRA is something the left can blame. Lord knows you can’t blame all those bits and pieces of government that failed. The state and federal safety net the progressives insist are more than adequate after they disarm us.

They actually mean “enough to protect them from us,” but that’s a story for another day.

Here’s the list of companies that have dropped NRA deals (so far):

*Delta Air Lines: The company axed discounted rates for NRA members.

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The town of Gilmanton, New Hampshire appears to be violating first amendment protections for political speech.

 A New Hampshire town building inspector has asked property owners to take down signs suggesting selectmen don’t support the police, saying the messages appear to violate an ordinance against political signs.

Letters were sent to private property owners regarding signs that said, “We support Gilmanton Police Even if the Selectmen Don’t.”

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Democrat New Hampshire district one congressmember Carol Shea-Porter has signed on as a co-sponsor of a bill to ban “assault weapons.”

 In a press release, she said that “gun massacres” increased by 183 percent after the federal ban expired in 2004. “One law can’t stop every mass shooting, but we can make them less deadly and less frequent,” she said. “These weapons of war were designed for military use and have one purpose: to kill lots of people quickly and easily. We need to take action now.”

As usual, she’s misleading.

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It was American author Frank Herbert who once wrote, “Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.”

In the aftermath of the massacre in Parkland, Florida, the survivors and those traumatized by the killings, directly or indirectly, could not be expected to objectively and rationally debate the issue of guns in America. Yet it was they who filled the audience of what was billed as a town hall meeting, an open debate on the gun issue. It was, in fact, a CNN-sponsored anti-gun rally.

On center stage was anti-gun activist, Scott Israel, Sheriff of Broward County, along with Dana Loesch, representing the NRA.

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Insanity. Often described as doing the same thing and expecting a different result or outcome. School Shootings. We do the same thing over and over and over and the outcome is the same: Dead kids. Lots of dead kids.

• April 20, 1999: Columbine High School. 15 Dead, 21 injured.
• March 21, 2005: Red Lake Senior High School. 10 dead, 7 injured.
• October 2, 2006: W. Nickel Mines School, PA. 6 dead, 3 injured.
• April 16, 2007:  Virginia Tech, 33 dead, 23 injured.
• February 14, 2008: Northern Illinois University, 6 dead, 21 injured.
• April 2, 2012: Oikos University, Oakland, 7 dead, 3 injured.
• December 14, 2012: Sandy Hook Elementary School, 28 dead, 2 injured.
• June 7, 2013: Santa Monica College, 6 dead, 4 injured.
• October 1, 2015: Umpqua Community College, 10 killed, 9 injured.
• November 14, 2017: Rancho Tehama Elementary School, 6 dead, 18 injured.
• February 14, 2018: Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, 17 dead, 14 injured.

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, in an interview with Doug Wyllie over at Police One, made the point,

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Apart from the shooter, the real culprits in the Parkland shooting are the people with the responsibility and the authority to protect the school and the public.  Prompted by self-interest and leftist ideology, the Sheriff and School Administrators conspired to ignore increasingly serious criminal offenses by students in order to claim great strides in improving student behavior.  As a result of these intentional actions the public was subject to increasingly more severe student committed crimes, student criminals weren’t punished and became emboldened, mentally disturbed students weren’t treated, and taxpayers were defrauded.   

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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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