Dean Trefethen – Dover, Only NH Mayor To Stand with Nanny Bloomberg

by Steve MacDonald

First, thanks to Kathleen LaBonte, who pointed out in the comments for this post, ‘Legal Gun Owners Against Stupid Gun Grabbing Mayors,‘ that Dover, New Hampshire Mayor Dean Trefethen is the only mayor in all of New Hampshire to climb on board Mike ‘Buckshot’ Bloomberg’s anti-gun owner clown car.

Trefethen has signed on to “mayorsagainstillegalguns.org.”

Really?  Mayors Against Illegal Guns?  Illegal guns.  Bloomberg is such an arrogant ass.  Every law abiding gun owner is against illegal guns so I’m reasonably certain (reasonably) that every mayor is as well; except perhaps for Chicago’s  Rahm Emanuel of the ‘please just don’t touch the children fame,’ who may be the only U.S. mayor on public record for demonstrating that it is possible for a cities chief executive to couch gun related gang violence in terms of when he’s really really REALLY against illegal gun use.  Hey- No shooting at each other when there are kids around?  Got it?

Dean has only been Mayor-Mayor of Dover since mid 2011 but he was Deputy Mayor for the three years prior.   He served 8 years on the city council and was on the zoning board of adjustment as well.    A real joiner, that guy.  And now he’s hitched his little blue wagon to Nanny Doomberg to promote the idea that more gun control laws will have some kind of impact on illegal guns.

What is both ironic and amusing about this notion is that illegal gun owners probably FAVOR stricter gun laws and more stringent background checks.  Why? Because only legal gun owners–their perspective victims–will ever be affected by those laws.  Lawbreakers don’t care about the law.  So any smart criminal would have to support a government or politician willing to guarantee them a force majority.

I think it is safe to say that Dean, who has been stewing in Dover’s liberal ghetto for longer than we were supposed to be afraid of global warming, is more interested in creating victims.  That’s about the only thing the Bloomberg/Doomberg grandstanding plan will ever accomplish, though I expect he will get praise from his sycophantic left-wing majority citizenry for his “courage” on this important issue.  Or is he just a progressive rube?

Speaking of courage.  Kathleen politely reminds us that Trefethen is up for re-election this December.  If someone has the courage to try, maybe they could challenge Mr. Treflethen for the office.  Despite all his years of ‘experience’ he’s still inclined to glom on to dumb things.

One Lesson Why Government Should Be Made To Move Slowly…

by Steve MacDonald

New York State and it’s governor acted with great haste in the wake of the Newtown tragedy, writing and enacting even tougher gun control laws than they already had.

But a state permitted to legislate like a three year old who has just discovered a spider on their arm is destined to make mistakes. Government should never EVER be encouraged to do something NOW! It will screw it up.  There is very little that a state or federal government need address that it cannot first study at great length and detail. My suggestion would be months, years, and more often than not, never. The people will be safer and more well fed on the fruits of their own labor when their government is at rest, or acting–when necessary at all–with the speed of a sloth.

In the case of New York, their triumphal achievement was to restrict magazines to a size (seven) that does not exist for almost every weapon ever made, while it was still illegal to purchase the ten round magazine the law was supposed to have permitted for range practice.

The answer?  Make the sale of ten round magazines legal in all cases but make it illegal to put more than 7 rounds in them.

I kid you not.

 Hot Air

Mental Health Issues - Taxing Up The Wrong Tree

Skip at GraniteGrok already gave a good  run-down on HB 499 and how it could reult in gun buyers having to report all sales to the the Department of Health and (in)Human Services, and pay a fee on every sale---You have to keep track of that fee so we get a back-door gun registry while claiming to get gun owners to shoulder the cost of adding more beds for mental health patients.

As former New Hampshire State House Rep Jenn Coffey points out, in a letter sent to the committee members hearing HB 499, if you are serious, and you want to tax an actual cause and effect relationship in the real world, gun owners are not the people you need to consider taxing.

According to a report issued in 2009 by the New Hampshire department of Human Services, there were 164 citizens that died from a drug overdose, which is significantly higher than all of the traffic fatalities from the same year which was a total of 130 citizens ("Division community based," 2009).  A year later, in February of 2010, WMUR reports that prescription drug overdoses are a leading killer in New Hampshire.   Nothing about that fact has changed to date.

so...

If you want to create a new tax or fee that is related to mental health care, then it would have to be on all over-the-counter and prescription drugs sold in the state.  That is the method of choice most often used by those who suffer from mental health issues that leads them to suicide. 

Connecting the risk to the behavior most likely to lead to it....hmmmm.

So this would be very sensible if you happen to be a liberal who taxes tobacco, gas, electricity, or anything else that you--as the wise and benevolent rulers above all men (and women, and the gender-neutral, un-gendered, dis-engendered, trans-fat gendered, or gender-challenged)--want "less of" for the greater good of all people-kind (oh, and don't forget saving mother earth for our animal friends).  Put another way you tax it as much as you dare, because that would prevent the behavior.  That is how taxation as social engineering works, and it is what liberal Democrats believe--or more likely claim as an excuse to raise taxes.

But not here.  HB499 makes no such connection.

And no, Ms Coffey is not suggesting that we tax all prescription and OTC drugs, she is merely pointing out that any legislator with two-brain cells to rub together would realize that the primary source of the undesired behavior tied to the recommended solution is prescription drug abuse not guns, and even the average Democrat has at least two of those brain cells so they can make their index finger click "Donate" every time an email comes in from Obama For Anything asking for three dollars.

Put another way, this HB499 funding scheme...

The commission’s study shall consider among its funding methods whether persons buying and selling guns may be required to pay a fee which would be transmitted to the department of health and human services to be used for the purposes of increasing mental health beds.

...has nothing to do with mental health issues or an adequate number of beds, it is a scheme to create a stacked anti-gun committee, that will very likely agree to create an New Hampshire HHS gun registry (having recorded all sales and collected the 'fee'), the only purpose for which is to allow some government entity to later find those lawful gun owners...and it will not be to "say hi, how's that gun working out."  The only reason for the government to keep track of lawful purchases is so they know who to visit when they decide it is time to take some guns away.  And no, any actual illegal gun sales will still go unrecorded no matter what crazy idea or excuse progressives come up with or could.   Who wants to bet that it would increase those unrecorded sales?  /Steve raises his hand.

The curious might ask...why can't you just do this crap in the daylight?  Why do you need to hide you intentions, bury them under unrelated issues, disguise them from the people who elected you to office?  Those of us paying attention know why?  Democrats cannot be honest about what they want because it would get them kicked out of power--except for Chuck Weed.  He can say every stupid thing a liberal can think to say and no one seems to give a damn.

New Hampshire Democrat Ken Gidge, the bill's sponsor, appears  incapable of operating in daylight.   This bill is a stealth bill on several levels.  It connects things that have no relation, while using it--not to create the HHS fee directly--but to create a stacked committee that will come to agree with the suggested fee and the records keeping required to collect it.

Prescription drug abuse?    Maybe they need that to keep the beds filled so they can use it as cover for the rest of their schemes?

You are reading  "Mental Health Issues – Taxing Up The Wrong Tree"   by  Steve Mac Donald originally posted at GraniteGrok.com (Home)

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Colorado Ammo Mag Company says “You Pass that Bill and We’re Gone.”

News from the world of ‘How bad did you really want that‘ and “reap what you sow“…(Michelle Malkin.com)

On Friday, liberal lawmakers in the Colorado state House passed legislation requiring background checks on private gun sales and placing limits on ammo magazines. A final vote may come today before the bills move on to the state Senate. Dems now hold majorities in both chambers and the governor’s mansion is occupied by Democrat John Hickenlooper.

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Colorado’s largest and most profitable manufacturer of high-capacity ammunition magazines has vowed to leave the state if lawmakers pass a measure banning the devices — a move officials with the company say could cost hundreds of jobs and upward of $85 million in potential spending this year

Most of Magpul’s materials vendors are in Colorado and it looks like some of them may follow Magpul wherever they go, taking jobs, revenues…all of it with them.

So is Magpul that serious?

Arrogant Democrats here in Colorado have fooled themselves into thinking that companies like Magpul are bluffing. The company fired back last night on Facebook:

We’re hearing some rumors that the Gov and the Dem caucus think we are bluffing. Just to clarify for them, then…we’re not a political company. We don[']t play political games. We’ve made our position very clear, very publicly. We would not survive lying to our customer base, nor would we ever consider it. If you pass this, we will leave, and you will own it. We’ve already got plans in place to get PMAG manufacturing moved rapidly, and the rest of the company will follow. We will make sure to at least have a small remain-behind operation through the 2014 elections so that we can remind folks why we are gone.

Excellent.

Trust and Safety in New Hampshire

Here are two pull quotes from the New Hampshire Union Leader that I wanted to share.  One is about trust, the other about safety.  I think you’ll find them…interesting.

In an article on 2013 LSR H-0451 regarding a proposed change to the right to know law, New Hampshire House Democrat Majority Leader Steve Shurtleff, D-Penacook, said of local elected officials having more opportunities for private executive sessions meeting out of public view…

“At some point, you have to trust these officials not to abuse it,.”

Now that is funny, right there, I don’t care who you are.

and…

In an article on a gun free state House, the editorialist reminds us that back in 2009 when the Democrats ran things and the Rules Committee banned guns in the State House, House Democrat Majority Leader Rep. Mary Jane Waller noted that children tour the state capitol.  She said, “We have a responsibility to be sure this building is as safe as their schools.”

Not sure I have to say anything else about that?

You are reading  “Trust and Safety in New Hampshire”   by  Steve Mac Donald originally posted at GraniteGrok.com (Home)

Steve has been recognized as the Americans For Prosperity Blogger of the month for December 2012