Penny Dean and Your Rights

Often we hear politicians tell us that the "public has a short memory." Thanks to the internet and video sites such as <a href="http://youtube.com">YouTube</a> our memory has gotten better in the last decade or so. More precisely, we are using computer memory to supplement our human memory. So if you were to grade our memory, we would get an "A" now that we are allowed to use computers in the test.

Tuesday, March 27, 2011

Senate Bill 88, http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/default.aspx introduced by Senator Boutin (R-SD16) http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/senate/members/senate16.asp would, <b>in theory</b>, remove the duty to retreat and allow law-abiding citizens to use force, including deadly force, against an attacker in their home, to defend themselves, and other persons and to defend themselves any place outside of their home.

The <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/262834/ct-considers-confiscating-la... Review</a> discusses a law being considered in Connecticut which would make you a felon if you don't turn in your "high-capacity" magazine.

This appears to be illegal, unconstitutional, and simply ignorant... yet it's being discussed as if it could happen.

"If a little is good, then a lot must be really great." -- said in jest at a cooking school.

The above quote is commonly heard by master chefs when teaching new students about how much spice to use in a recipe. In reality, the right amount of any spice is "not too much" and "not too little" at the same time. This is also called "in moderation."

<img src="http://cmsimg.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=DP&Date... align="right">At PNJ.COM we read about a homeowner who opened the door to strangers and was met with a metal baseball bat over the head.

<blockquote>AMHERST - Police chief Peter Lyon said Amherst Street resident and state Rep. Peter T. Hansen acted appropriately and well within the law when he detained at gunpoint a man who had broken into his home late Tuesday night. -- The Nashua Telegraph, front page 1/6/11</blockquote>

and in the same column of the same front page:

<blockquote>CONCORD - The House of Representatives [ended the] ban on carrying [...] weapons inside the chamber. -- ibid.</blockquote>

According to Reuters, other countries are suffering from violent drug dealers. Sometimes they do not blame legally operating gun shops for the problems, either:

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"These people had kidnapped innocent citizens a number of times, and after receiving money from their families they still killed some of their victims," Fars quoted provincial prosecutor Ebrahim Hamidi as saying.

We have all seen those articles with a title like "This Year In Review" or maybe "The 10 top [whatever] of 2010" and similar stories. They do it every year, and we always look at them and we either laugh, cry, reflect, or even vow to make a New Years' resolution to do something about it. Right?

It's the most wonderful time of the year... and during various holiday seasons, we expect employers and vendors to have special holiday celebrations and games.

N.J. Governor Chris Christie Commutes Gun Owner’s Prison Sentence
NRA Hails Decision, Calls for Real Reform

Fairfax, Va. –The National Rifle Association praised New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for commuting the prison sentence of Brian Aitken—a gun owner who was arrested, convicted and imprisoned for illegal possession of firearms, even though he had made every effort to comply with New Jersey’s restrictive and confusing laws. The NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund supported Mr. Aitken’s case.