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NH: Guns do not belong in the State House chamber and gallery
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Bruce W. Krafft
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"THE HOUSE of Representatives convenes this Wednesday in Concord to adopt deadlines and rules of operation for the next two years. While the rules of the House typically produce little fanfare for the media, one proposed rule change could have a significant effect on safety and security in the State House."
"The Republican majority in the House has proposed removing the current ban on carrying guns and other deadly weapons in the House chamber and the visitors’ gallery."
"Deadly weapons were first prohibited in the House back in 1971 after a fellow lawmaker threatened House Speaker Marshall Cobleigh. Aside from the two-year period that Speaker Bill O’Brien wielded the gavel, the policy has remained in place since." ... |
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Millwright66
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| Then NH ought to also ban canes, too. Or are the inhabitants of these halls so fearful their actions might be objectionable to the electorate they need to "fortify themselves" in the house the people built - from the people that built it ? |
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| We'll take one step at a time, and the first is necessarily - given the political realities - very modest. We'll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law and again and again. Our ultimate goal, total control of handguns, is going to take time. The first problem is to slow down production and sales. Next is to get registration. The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and ammunition (with a few exceptions) totally illegal. — Pete Shields, founder of Handgun Control, Inc., New Yorker Magazine, June 26, 1976, pg. 53 |
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