NH Democrat endorses buying guns with EBT cards

Biz-Pac Review ^ | May 9, 2014 | Tom Tillison

[2ndDivisionVet]

NH State Rep. Timothy Horrigan

Regardless of political affiliation, you may want to sit down for this story.

In opposition to a bill banning the use of EBT cards to buy guns, a Democratic lawmaker in New Hampshire argued that the legislation is “a blatant violation of the Second Amendment,” saying people receiving public assistance should be allowed to use cash benefits to purchase firearms.

Yes, you read that correctly.

“The firearms ban is a blatant violation of the Second Amendment,” Democratic state Rep. Timothy Horrigan said Wednesday on the state house floor. “Cash benefit recipients presumably have the same right as the rest of us to purchase guns for hunting, sports shooting, or even self-defense.”

The Democrat’s rationale is that recipients “don’t have much money to spend on that, but they do have the right under the Second Amendment to do so.”

While dependence on government entitlements is a staple of the Democratic Party, finding a pro-Second Amendment member of the party is not as easy in the age of Obama. Either way, Horrigan panders to both issues with perfection.

At least until we run out of money.

The last time Hoorigan found himself in the media spotlight was in 2010 when he resigned his position after speculating on the death of Sarah Palin, saying he would not run for re-election — the lawmaker was quietly reelected in 2012.

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[2ndDivisionVet]

Didn't you kind of know he'd look something like that?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I'd be all for eliminating all transfer payments, but as it stands they can spend it on casinos and Hawaiian vacations. Why not guns?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Okay, but what do you define as a “transfer payment?” Veteran’s benefits? Social Security retirement?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[Little Ray]

Dunno ‘bout guns, but I’m okay with ammo.
Guns have to be fed, too...

[nickcarraway]

“Give a man money, he can eat for a day. Give a man a gun, and he can get money for a lifetime.”

[Madame Dufarge]

He's busting balls:

Anti-Second-Amendment moonbat

[2ndDivisionVet]

He was pretty good in The Big Lebowski.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Alinsky tactics.

[who knows what evil?]

Classic moonbat representing Durham, home of leftist University of Red Hampshire. Moonbat population slowly increasing as conservatives flee this state...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Anything not funded by actuarial-defined payments to an investment account from which benefits are paid is a transfer payment/pyramid scheme and will be abolished by reality at some point in the future, no matter how sacred you believe the particular transfer payment you receive to be.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Yeah, most of ‘em are headed my way, if U-Haul, Penske, Budget, Pods and professional moving vans are any indication.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Didn’t we have this discussion a year or two ago?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Don’t know. Don’t care.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Let me understand this, though. I became disabled in the service of this country and you’re saying that my monthly allotment is a pyramid scheme? Do I have that right?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You love to take personal offense and bully up, don't you?

If you are receiving a payment that is not funded by regular contributions to an investment account, it is a transfer payment, by definition. Period. Exclamation point.

What this means to you in reality is that you will continue to get your transfer payment far into the future, but after the triple-digit inflation kicks in that will be required to pay back the "stimulus," you'll be able to buy a couple of McDonald's hamburgers a month with it. If you're lucky.

That's reality. I'm just the messenger.

[bunkerhill7]

people with EBT cards have no ID`s-

It`s too difficult for them to get ID`s...

how can they buy a gun?

[dangerdoc]

How do you spell false flag?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Speaking of taking personal offense. I’m just trying to get it through my head that at a supposed “conservative” site I am being lumped together with ghetto trash, meth-dealing hillbillies, welfare queens, moochers and assorted other riff-raff as being a taker, while you, who I’m guessing thinks of himself as one of the beknighted and put-upon producers shakes his head at all the bums gettin’ them transfer payments.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I'm not lumping you in with anybody. You're the one doing that. I just explained to you what a transfer payment is. The rest is all yours.