You are endowed by your Creator with certain unalienable rights. They cannot be specific to you or your tribe. As enumerated, they do not provide for location exceptions. No matter where you live, or what you look like, or who you love, you have rights the government may not infringe. Rights that government exists to protect for you.
The NH House tried to correct an injustice. College campuses that accept taxpayer dollars should not have the right to disarm students and faculty. It denies them their natural right to self-defense, as enumerated in the Second Amendment. You can thank misleading University system presidents, at least in part, for giving the NH State Senate cover when it chose to let them continue to deny you those rights.
President Elizabeth Chilton also took an institutional stance against the law, sending out both a campuswide message and testifying to the state senate judiciary committee. She (pictured) submitted testimony along with Don Birx, president of Keene State College and Plymouth State University, and Mark Collopy, the police chief for UNH.
They said “research from states that have adopted campus carry has found increased fear of crime, lower perceptions of campus safety, and reduced confidence in campus police.” …
Chilton’s testimony emphasized perception of safety and argued these feelings form a basis for the well-being and senses of security of UNH’s students, faculty, and staff.
Feelings. Nothing more than feelings.
But none of the cited research includes any evidence that crime rates rise as a result of campus carry. The primary opposition to it is based on progressive lies about guns and violence, none of which can be corroborated by actual data.
A few quick questions. Are there any other examples of this where the left whined about fear and misrepresented data to prevent lawful gun owners from carrying firearms? Yes, everywhere all the time?
And no matter how crazy the perpetrator might be, where do all the mass shootings happen? Gun-free zones.
The potential presence of armed resistance changes the likelihood of a mass shooter event, but College Presidents (and the K-12 systems that feed them) don’t teach their students that. Instead, they lie to them and then pretend that this deception is irrelevant. That those feelings are more important than the actual safety of students and faculty, natural rights, or any State or Federal Constitution that restricts them if they take public money.
There is no Second Amendment exception for feelings. If there were, Democrats would have disarmed everyone everywhere.
Republican State Senators should know better, and I suspect they do, so who bought them off with favors, threats, or actual promises of financial support? Did they kneecap the bill because they knew the House would never go for their changes? Who managed them and how? What was more important to them than your rights?
We know why Democrats would never support it, but with a Republican super-majority there’s no excuse (for a long list of failures this session).
Whatever the motivation, I get the “feeling” that we need to primary a bunch of Republican State Senators in New Hampshire. A few of them have been there too long. They’ve forgotten their job is to get the government out of our way and keep it there.
