As I understand it, Ward Bird had posted his property and made it clear that trespassing was frowned upon. After confronting a trespasser who would not stop trespassing, he brandishing his legally owned and obtained hand gun, and was arrested and sentenced to jail for it. This was handled badly, he never should have been imprisoned, and while he has been granted a parole hearing to perhaps resolve the matter of the balance of his sentence it should not have come to this.
But I can’t help but wonder if a different sign might have helped?
With that in mind, here’s a (viable?) alternative for anyone looking for more options to keep folks off their property so that they might avoid the same set of circumstances. Just print off a few copies, and tack them around the perimeter.
Although it does lose something when the hand painted sign is not made out of several different sizes of scrap wood.
(on the jump…)
There is a very touching bit of sympathy-searching in the Union Leader’s My Turn editorial today. Eric Merklin, husband of State House Rep Tara Sad (D-Walpole) cranks up the left wing fantasy-template on State House violence and goes fishing.