Posted on 04/30/2015 8:48:59 PM PDT by marktwain
As predicted in an article three days ago, before Governor Hassan had made a definite statement, she says that she will veto the New Hampshire constitutional carry bill. The bill has passed both the Senate and the House, but not by veto proof margins. From unionleader.com:
CONCORD — Before the House could take a vote Wednesday, Gov. Maggie Hassan said she would veto a bill that would repeal the requirement for a concealed firearms permit.Governor Hassan did not explain why the requirement for a permit was necessary, given that the sister state of Vermont has had constitutional carry ever since it was founded, has no permit system, and has murder rates very close to those of New Hampshire, both of which are commonly in the lowest five states in the Union. Both states have preserved open carry without a license, and the permit system in New Hampshire is not particularly onerous, except that it allows a bit of "discretion", to rest with the county sheriffs as to whether a permit will be issued or not.
The House passed the measure by at 212-150 margin.
She said the state’s permitting system gives local law enforcement oversight in order to protect the community, while the person applying can appeal that decision.It seems clear that the real issue is one of power. Governor Hassan wants to hang onto a sliver of arbitrary power over whether people may be armed or not. It does not appear to be exercised much, but it is there, a reminder that it is men who rule, not the rule of law.
New Hampshire: All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state. Pt. 1, art. 2-a (enacted 1982).The Vermont provision is a little more verbose:
Vermont: That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State -- and as standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military should be kept under strict subordination to and governed by the civil power. Ch. I, art. 16 (enacted 1777, ch. I, art. 15).It was the Vermont provision that prompted the court decision that has kept Vermont a constitutional carry state for its entire existence. I do not know if the New Hampshire version has ever been challenged, but then it is only 32 years old.
She met with the Democratic caucus before the vote to tell members she would veto the bill, and also told members of the NH Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America of her decision when they delivered hundreds of postcards urging her to veto the bill.For those who wish to look at the crime rates, here they are:
so the only ones will be the homeboys who will unconstitutional carry.
So much for that whole “living free” thing, eh?
I’m sure Gov. Hassan is fine with the dying part, though. At least if you’re unborn, or aged and consuming too many healthcare resources.
Live Free or Die?
Motto change needed.
Any chance they can override this dumb bitch?
....”the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed...”
So we see that the governor does not believe NH is part of the USA ... or at least that being governor means you don’t have to follow the supreme law of America
with anti-American and/or screwed-up politicians like this, we are in very deeeeep dooo doooo
People in Red Hampshire are as dumb as she is.
Live subdued and die.
“Live Free or Die?
Motto change needed.”
Live FRee or Die Hard!
And their next door neighbor, Vermont, has always had the loosest gun laws in the country and enjoyed (as NH does, I’m sure) a very low crime rate.
Both states are also totally white, full disclosure compels me to add that.
New Hampshire: All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state. Pt. 1, art. 2-a (enacted 1982).
The Vermont provision is a little more verbose:
Vermont: That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State -- and as standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military should be kept under strict subordination to and governed by the civil power. Ch. I, art. 16 (enacted 1777, ch. I, art. 15).
Look carefully. See how New Hampshire says "persons" and Vermont says "the people"? Government-granted privileges versus God-given rights, respectively.
Right there in black-and-white, if you know what you're looking at.
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That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State — and as standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military should be kept under strict subordination to and governed by the civil power.
“Live subdued and die.... then pay a death tax...”
[[Both states are also totally white,]]
Her last name is Hassan- not totally white-
“Live subdued and die.... then pay a death tax…”
8. (4) A great debt will require great taxes; great taxes, many taxgatherers and other officers; and all officers are auxiliaries of power.
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt, provided enough of it can be got and it be medicated with the proper ingredients. If by good fortune a debt be ready at hand, the most is to be made of it. Stretch it and swell it to the utmost the items will bear. Allow as many extra claims as decency will permit. Assume all the debts of your neighbors - in a word, get as much debt as can be raked and scraped together, and when you have got all you can, “advertise” for more, and have the debt made as big as possible. This object being accomplished, the next will be to make it as perpetual as possible; and the next to that, to get it into as few hands as possible. The more effectually to bring this about, modify the debt, complicate it, divide it, subdivide it, subtract it, postpone it, let there be one-third of two-thirds, and two-thirds of one-third, and two-thirds of two-thirds; let there be 3 percents, and 4 percents, and 6 percents, and present 6 percents, and future 6 percents. To be brief, let the whole be such a mystery that a few only can understand it; and let all possible opportunities and informations fall in the way of these few to cinch their advantages over the many.
/Freneau “Rules”
Rules for Radicals? No, “Rules…
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm
http://www.usdebtclock.org/state-debt-clocks/state-of-new-hampshire-debt-clock.html
Hassan. Is that an Arabic name?
One of my classmates in HS was Hassan and she claimed to be from Egypt originally.
Not all of us.
Most of them are
Massholes.
There has been an uptick of Maryland license plate sightings in the last few days.
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