If you’re an open-carry activist or proponent… please read #9. The state is charging someone with disorderly conduct for what appears to be the mere act of openly-carrying a pistol. The judge rejected a plea in the case out of concerns that the man should be charged with a more serious offense.
This should be alarming to all of us who value our inherent and constitutional right to carry a firearm.
1. The Keene Police protected and served the community when one of their officers arrested a man for robbing someone of a 12-pack of beer and kicking him in the face. This is what the police should be doing. Good work Keene PD! This is a crime clearly worthy of state action as this man is a threat to those of us who wish to be peaceful.
Only go after people like this who have hurt someone and your days of having to worry about all the pesky activists will be numbered!
2. The Manchester Police have likewise protected their community when they caught a guy who beat the crap out of someone else with a baseball bat. Good work MPD! This guy obviously is dangerous and needs to be met with justice. This is the type of thing that protection services should be investigating and preventing. The guy could have avoided having the force of the state come after him if he simply refrained from using the blunt force of a baseball bat on another human being.
Initiating violence against anyone for any reason is always wrong.
3. Some in the New Hampshire legislature are concerned that if Massachusetts expands the freedom of voluntary interaction between people before they do that they’ll miss out on the money that they can extract from it.
“”If Massachusetts passes a gaming bill before New Hampshire, we will lose up to $100 million in revenue,” (a New Hampshire state senator) said.”
As I’ve said before, it’s sad that politicians generally only care about enhancing freedom when it means that they can make money off of it.
The New Hampshire government is $600 million in the hole for the next two years. Fiscal incompetence could mean that the government might not be able to afford to go after peaceful people anymore. What a grand day that will be.
4. In a very unusual move a judge in the Nashua District Court has rebuffed the police and found that there is no evidence to hold a burglary suspect who is believed to be responsible for several area burglaries. This can indeed happen when the guy is actually guilty but the state has flimsy evidence. If in fact this burglary suspect is guilty, his release surely puts the community in danger.
“After his arrest, police released more information about the alleged burglary attempt, indicated he was suspected in several residential burglaries in the area and asked the public’s help in learning more about Keyser.”
The article doesn’t say specifically but if you’ve been reading my news updates hopefully you can infer why this man (if guilty) has been causing burglaries.
Not addressing the root of the problem is absolutely dangerous. You cannot arrest and prosecute your way out of this problem. All you can do is continue to place innocent people in danger by clinging so firmly to the status-quo.
5. In Hollis, NH, another burglar has been caught.
“The number of daytime residential burglaries seem to be exploding across the region, including in Hollis and Merrimack.”
“Merrimack police have reported a “drastic” increase in residential burglaries, about 20 in the past nine months, according to Detective Scott Park.”
I will continue to beat my dead horse until our communities are made safer by offering drug addicts an alternative to a life of petty crime.
“(…) a detective was planning to attend a Tuesday night meeting with detectives from area police agencies to compare notes about the burglaries.”
I’ve been to these meetings before where detectives gather and discuss recent crimes. I just wish these obviously intelligent investigators would have the intelligence and courage to discuss the cause of all this madness at their meeting. It is glaringly obvious. If they (you reading this) really wanted to make communities safer they (you) need to advocate an alternative for drug addicts. The tough on crime approach doesn’t work. It got us to where we are now.
6. A Union Leader editorial is titled the following: “We don’t need casinos to balance the budget or fill the Rainy Day Fund. We need frugal governing.”
My commentary: We need the freedom to do with our property what we choose. We need the freedom to interact with people consensually without the threat of violence or actually violence being used on us. We need the freedom to do all of the aforementioned without the threat of being locked in a cage.
Union Leader: I think you do wonderful work covering the news of our state. I just wish you were better at advocating freedom.
7. In Plymouth, NH a pair has been arrested for a string of Wal-Mart thefts.
“Mirabella told Samaha, who ended up setting her bail at $20,000 cash, that she had planned to go to college to study “law enforcement” and that “obviously this doesn’t help the situation at all.””
Q: What would cause someone interested in a career in law enforcement to resort to a life of crime?
A: Even sworn law enforcement officers turn to a life of crime when they develop addictions.
The article doesn’t mention drugs…Â but does it really have to?
8. Some more excellent news about the state of the NH judicial branch. The Chief Justice is asking the Governor not to make any judicial appointments. Why? They cannot afford it.
Less judges means less people authorizing violence against individuals who have harmed no one else.
9. This is a very troubling story. It seems a man is being charged with disorderly conduct for merely carrying a BB-pistol into a bank. He didn’t brandish it, at all. It is not illegal in New Hampshire to carry a firearm anywhere (under state law at least) other than in a court building. It seems that using the disorderly conduct law the Portsmouth Police have extended this prohibition to any bank where a teller becomes alarmed.
“Durand said the judge seemed to take issue that Gowell was only issued a violation (…)”
“Police have said the man made no direct threats to bank tellers and characterized the incident as a lapse in judgment.”
Yeah, well, judge, I take issue that he was charged with anything. If the bank employees were alarmed (understandable in this age of bank robberies executed by addicts who need money for their addictions) I have no problem with them calling the police. The man should have been told to leave and not come back. Or perhaps told to leave and not come back with his pistol on. It is private property, after all.
The judge rejected the plea. There will probably be a trial. I suggest we reach out to this man, find out precisely what happened, and possibly support him.
This could be the slippery slope towards the state banning/restricting open-carrying through the use of the disorderly conduct statue.
And to end, some light humor for you:
I just saw this Google Ad on the home page of Free Keene 🙂 Must be hitting on all the talk about police and drugs we do here.
