The Daily Newt: Solutions and Safety

Defending Your Second Amendment Rights Following up on the message we reinforced yesterday—that we are committed to solving problems, not slinging mud, and to running a campaign based on action, not attack ads… We have fielded a number of calls of concern from New Hampshire neighbors about an anti-Newt recorded phone message that maliciously misfires on Speaker Gingrich’s record on defending your Second Amendment rights. In addition to staying positive in this campaign, we are staying focused on the issues that matter to Granite Staters. We refuse to get sidetracked by each and every distortion of Newt’s record of leadership, innovation, and upholding American values and exceptionalism. But the Second Amendment – and the entire U.S. Constitution for that matter – is especially sacred in the First in the Nation State. So here is a link to a section of the Newt 2012 website (which we assure you wasn’t added yesterday or just a week ago) on Newt’s defense of the right of the people to defend themselves. The Second Amendment section includes a video of Newt’s address at the 2011 NRA Annual Meeting. (P.S. That attack call you might have received was not from the NRA!) Last month, Newt participated in a Constitutional Conversation in Hampton NH, hosted by the Granite State Patriots Liberty PAC. Throughout the campaign, and during his presidency, Newt has and will discuss and defend the U.S. Constitution. Discuss and defend the NewtHampshire campaign with your fellow Granite Staters. National media appearance When you stay positive, you don't have to spin. Newt enters the No Spin Zone on The O'Reilly Factor tonight on the Fox News Channel, 8pm ET.

NHDP - NHGOP's Guns on Campus Bill Receives Widespread, Intense Opposition

Concord, NH - In case you missed it, the Republican legislature's plan to force college campuses to allow guns on their campuses has received widespread and intense criticism, including more than 20 letters to the editor and multiple editorials in opposition to the reckless proposal.

Concord Monitor: Guns on Campus is a Maniacal Idea

"The year 2011 is shaping up to be the Year of the Gun in New Hampshire, and citizens are none the safer for it.

"Lawmakers began the year by overturning the ban on carrying guns in the State House complex. They went on to pass a 'stand your ground' law that allows citizens to use deadly force rather than first attempt to retreat when in any place they are lawfully entitled to be.

"Steps to eliminate the need for a concealed weapons permit, and thus a criminal background check, failed. So did a plan to form a state 'defense force' comprised of citizens charged with defending the state 'from invasion, rebellion, disaster, insurrection, riot, breach of peace or imminent danger thereof.' But an idea that's even worse, forbidding colleges and universities from banning guns from their campuses, lives on, thanks to its embrace by the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee."

[Link: http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/296359/guns-on-campus-is-maniacal-idea]

Valley News: Misfire on Campus Guns; N.H.'s Assault on Student Safety

"Hoell also subscribes to the notion that allowing possession of firearms on campus would head off incidents of mass murder like that which occurred at Virginia Tech in 2007. Nick Halias, chief of the UNH police force, provided a dose of reality to counter that delusion. He points out that police officers are trained to react to "the active shooter, to eliminate that shooter as fast as possible. To have other students with weapons, where you don't know who is the bad guy and the good guy, would be a dangerous situation." The chief evidently has a master's in understatement."

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"It's probably fruitless to hope that our gun-loving representatives in Concord will think better of this, but worried parents might want to take a shot at persuading them to be reasonable for once."

[Link: http://www.vnews.com/11292011/8189872.htm]

Keene Sentinel: The Legislature Mulls a Plan to Let Guns on College Campuses

"In a widely circulated complaint last March, House Speaker William O'Brien said that college students were intellectually and emotionally deficient, at least so far as voting was concerned; they allegedly lacked the maturity to grasp the substance of important things. The speaker's point was partisan, in that at the time he was trying to beef up residency requirements for people whom he said tended to vote liberal. Doing such "foolish" things, he remarked, was 'what kids do.'"

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 "The answer from advocates of ending the gun ban is an emphatic yes - otherwise campuses become "killing zones," in the words of one enthusiastic proponent of the change.

"One has to wonder why, then, college and university presidents are lined up against the initiative. Presumably, they value campus safety. Ed McKay, the chancellor of the University of New Hampshire, explained in a letter to legislators that campus life can include "impetuous behavior" that, were guns in the mix, could lead to "dangerous and potentially catastrophic" consequences."

[Link: http://sentinelsource.com/opinion/editorial/the-legislature-mulls-a-plan-to-let-guns-on-college/article_3009de1e-a266-5027-a22a-994dd7757be6.html]

[freekeenenews] Former NH Cop to Carry Firearm on University Campus on Friday

Brad Jardis is a former NH law enforcement officer who will be
traveling to Plymouth State University on Friday along with Tommy
Mozingo, a former soldier in the Army. Both Jardis and Mozingo will
be carrying firearms openly and performing an outreach project
informing students and other members of the public of their right to
carry weapons for self-defense, despite college regulations
prohibiting it. Jardis says those regulations are illegal and plans
to challenge them this Friday.

Jardis details his case in this post at Free Keene:
http://freekeene.com/2011/12/05/press-release-re-plymouth-state-university-information-distribution-on-120911/

NHGOP Statement on State Senate Veto Override of Deadly Force Bill

Lawmakers Take First Step in Overriding Governor Lynch’s Veto of SB 88

Concord, NH –Republican State Committee Chairman Wayne MacDonald released the following statement on the successful override vote in the New Hampshire Senate of SB 88.  SB 88 has become known as the “Deadly Force Bill” and was vetoed by Governor John Lynch despite widespread support from the public.  The bill gives law abiding citizens the right to use deadly force to protect themselves in self-defense situations.

“The citizens of New Hampshire should be extremely proud that the State Senate stood up for law abiding citizens and their Second Amendment rights by overriding the Governor’s veto of SB 88 today.   In New Hampshire, self-defense is both a right and a responsibility.  Clearly, Democrat Leadership does not value these principals.  They would rather try to score cheap political points than debate the serious issue of allowing citizens to defend themselves when faced with attacks perpetrated by criminals.”

CEI Daily - Condom Mandates and Operation Fast and Furious

Condom Mandates

A porn actor tested positive for HIV in LA this week, effectively shutting down the industry for testing.

Policy Analyst Michelle Minton comments.

"The rate of HIV infection among the general population from my unscientific analysis, is roughly comparable, if not greater — than it is among the licensed adult film actors working in California. According to CDC data from 2009 (the most recent available) there were 48,100 new cases. If there are 305 million people living in the US, that means that about 0.0016 percent of the popoulation contracted HIV in 2009. While the numbers for adult film actors are tougher to nail down, we can use the data provided by the Adult Industry Medical Center (AIM), which serviced most of the licensed adult actors in the L.A. area and was required by law to report any positive cases of HIV to the to L.A. County Health Department within seven days. According to AIM’s reports, there have been only a handful of HIV infections in the adult entertainment community in the last decade."

Operation Fast and Furious

The controversial Operation Fast and Furious has resulted in several resignations, including that of the acting head of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau.

Senior Counsel Hans Bader comments.

"The officials who recently resigned were 'scapegoats' for higher-ups in the Obama administration who had more culpability than the officials who resigned, argues Jim Kouri, formerly with the National Association of Chiefs of Police.  Others have reached the same conclusion."