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NH: How Seacoast legislators voted on allowing guns in N.H. House
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The Republican-controlled N.H. House of Representatives voted on Jan. 7 to allow guns on the floor and in the visitors' gallery of the House. This misguided vote was not a continuation of a long-standing policy. According to Rep. Steve Shurtleff, "Deadly weapons were first prohibited in the House back in 1971 after a fellow lawmaker threatened (to shoot) House Speaker Marshall Cobleigh. Aside from the two-year period that (Republican) Speaker Bill O'Brien wielded the gavel, the policy (not to allow guns in the House) has remained in place since." |
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Millwright66
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Might be revealing to research just how many of the "nay voters" are new to NH. I lived in NH for a time in the late Seventies and found carrying a sidearm wasn't even a cause for comment, ( except for tourists and "new complaints" immigrating - even back then - from "taxachuttets . |
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Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. — Noah Webster in "An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution," 1787, in Paul Ford, ed., Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, at p. 56 (New York, 1888). |
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