[Living Free in NH]

Opposing the bill, Dover Democratic Rep. William Knowles said this would be an invitation for people to become vigilantes.

Maybe it'll convince a few scumbags to leave folks alone, or they'll get their head blown off...

[joesnuffy]

It is always kind of difficult to retreat if you are in a wheelchair,other wise disabled,or elderly...

This is great news ..imagine government giving back your God given right to defend yourself and your loved ones from deadly criminals.

How the heck did government manage to take this right away in the first place...?

[1rudeboy]

This pleases me.

[beltfed308]

“Nothing should chip away at our freedom,” Hudson Republican Rep. Lynne Ober said.

“If weapons had been confiscated centuries ago, we might have been singing ‘God Save the Queen.’”

Nice to hear this from a Representative!

[catholicfreeper]

I would like to read the text of this bill.I will look it up tonight. Let me say as a long time member of the NRA, that I think this is a very bad idea if this is as far reaching as it appears to be. People get into fights all the time. Where I currently live its is legal to have a gun in one's car. I can only imagine the mischief that is going to occur in the hit of the moment.

[Finop]

"even if retreating from an attacker is an option." Is it just me???

[Maceman]

I support 2nd Amendment rights, and I think that deadly force should be legal anytime someone invades one's home.

But I do not support people firing in public places when their lives are not in immediate danger.

We just had a sentencing here in MA of a "yewt" who fired on the street during an argument, missed his target, and ended up paralyzing a 5-year old girl who was sitting on her own porch.

[wideawake]

It's getting so it's downright dangerous to rape somebody these days. Former President Clinton has weighed in, claiming that Constitutional rights to assembly are being hindred.

[immigration lady]

If we confiscate them now, we may be soon be saying "Allah is Great"

[fella]

Retreat, always Ethan Allen's first course of action. How is it that the hot bed of our Revolution has become a girlly-man land?

[DM1]

I LOVE it in NH
moved here from Mass in 03 :)
too bad we will be stuck with Lynch as Governor for the foreseeable future

[Southack]

Castle laws are winning in state after state...and Concealed Carry laws have already won in 47 states.

These are conservative, pro-gun, national trends that the Beltway Pundits can't see from their lofty perches in Washington, D.C.

[JamesP81]

This bill is unnecessary and creates the potential for people to use deadly force when they otherwise would not use deadly force or would have retreated from the incident

This may sound like chest pounding on my part, but I got a problem with this statement. Retreating from an "incident" for an American, especially an American male, when it isn't necessary is a pansy french kind of thing to do. It's a symptom of some of the inner problems we face as a culture in this nation.

When criminals start getting shot for screwing around with people they'll quit doing it and all will be better for it.

A man with a gun citizen. A man without a gun is a subject.

[archy]

Related Portsmouth Herald story FReepposted here:

House reverses course, supports expanded use of deadly force (NH)