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Senator Andrew Hosmer’s Response to a League Leader

Yesterday Susan Olsen, former Chair of the Women’s Defense League and current Legislative Director, sent an email to the entire NH Senate in support of SB 116.  Ms. Olsen sent the email as a New Hampshire resident, not as a representative of The League but the response from Senator Andrew Hosmer requires a comment.

Below is the email exchange in case you have not yet seen it:

Date: Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:08 AM
Subject: Support Women’s Rights – Support SB 116

Senator,

SB 116 will allow women who are legally able to defend themselves and their children INSIDE their homes to legally defend themselves and their children OUTSIDE their homes without seeking the permission of the legislature and local law enforcement.

For a woman who has been the victim of domestic abuse or of stalking, the legislature and current law forces her to cower behind closed doors and drawn draperies for as long a 14 days while waiting for her local police chief to determine whether he believes she is “suitable” and, thus, able to defend herself while she drives her children to the pediatrician or, simply and as importantly, drive to work so she may earn a living to support those children.

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I don’t know how I happened upon this but back in 2012 I wrote an article about the ‘Most DEPSICABLE political flier in the 2012 election cycle‘.  It was an ad for Senator Hosmer sent out by the vile Ray Buckley (now we know who Hosmer is parroting when he was condescending, sexist and rude to Susan Olsen).  That ad caused me to look at where the story originated and I found something quite interesting.

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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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[Art.] 2-a. [The Bearing of Arms.] All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state.

Based on MY Senator’s (that would be Andrew Hosmer) response to Susan’s request to support SB116 which seeks to implement “Constitutional Carry” here in NH (just as they have had in Vermont for years with NO ill effect in that safest of safe states), I just sent email to him:

From: Skip@GraniteGrok.com
To: SenHosmer@gmail.com
Sent: 2/9/2015 6:50:35 PM
Subject: Your “half baked” response to Susan Olsen’s email to you.

Senator Hosmer,

Really, that was a proper response to Mrs. Olsen’s politely worded  email to you – “half baked”?  This seems akin to the School of Carol Shea-Porter Political Civility who, when asked a question by a Republican lady several years ago who lived in her District, snarkily dismissed her as “No, you’re not being one of my constituents” simply for being on the other side of the political aisle.

For a number of years I’ve heard the Democrats throw out the Democrat meme #WarOnWomen for many sundry reasons the last few years at those that seem to be opposed to them – using Political Correctness in a politically weaponized manner any time a Republican of any measure was deemed out of line in a sexist fashion.  But then you, a high ranking Democrat in NH, have the temerity to completely dismiss Mrs. Olsen (yes, a dear friend of mine) in such a off-handed way?  Such a fine and upstanding example of “political civility” this is not!  Or was your response, like that hashtag meme, simply the new political expediency (seeing that the Democrat #WarOnWomen has run its course and only fit to be tossed into the heap pile)?

Unlike Mrs. Olsen, I AM one of your constituents. 

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NH State Rep Leigh Webb (D): “The role of government is to legislate behavior“

And yes, when Government legislates that YOU will give to SOMEONE ELSE your money, of course they’ll be happy!  But is it FAIR that a few benefit from the many?   Instead of paying for something themselves?  Why should Government be creating an environment where its citizens must use game theory against each other?  From the Union Leader (reformatted, emphasis mine):

HANOVER — Solarize Hanover plans to begin work on 62 installations soon, which is the equivalent of permanently removing 65 cars from the road, Town Manager Julia N. Griffin said Thursday.  Launched in October, Solarize Hanover’s goal is to dramatically increase the solar-electric or photovoltaic residential and small-business installations in Hanover by offering a group purchasing plan to obtain volume-based price reductions and unique networking opportunities to simplify the process of installing a solar system.   It is part of a larger solar project, Solarize Upper Valley, which is coordinated by local nonprofit Vital Communities.

Non-profit, yes?  So they actively went out to the Hanover community to get private pledges to get this done, eh?  THAT’S the NH spirit – local activism, local resources, local “sustainability”.  So what is this all about – and where did the money come from? From private donations, you say?  No???

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And one wonder’s why Conservatives are so anti-UN?

UN Climate Chief Announces “We Are Remaking The World Economy”

The United Nation’s climate chief says that reordering the global economy to fight climate change is the “most difficult” task the international body has ever undertaken. Christiana Figueres, who heads up the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, told reporters, “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.” Figueres continued, “This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years–since the industrial revolution.”

And I will add, the one that has boosted more people out of abject poverty than any other in the world’s history.  But, like all Smart People, she believes she and a handpicked few others can

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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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Yesterday, Susan Olsen, former chairwoman for the Women’s Defense League of New Hampshire and current Legislative Director, sent an email to the entire New Hampshire Senate regarding SB 116 (email below). Some of her responses were simply canned “thank you for your email” while others were in support of the bill. There was one response from a Democrat Senator that was so condescending, misogynist and rude it begs to be shared.

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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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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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