we can sit around and try and attach a binder full of reasons and fixes to our gun problem but until we recognize that if "we" don't stop the persons we assigned to look out for us then we will never get there and the NRA wins. let's see what the people of NH deal with those last bastions of safety between them and the criminal murderers is selling them the instruments of their trade.Some say we’ve become a society too concerned with political correctness and cultural sensitivity. Conversely, others demand heightened awareness of ethnic, racial, and religious differences. Those who are zealots, passionate about one cause or another, rarely give a hoot about stepping on the toes of the opposition one way or the other.Then there’s the New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police who are sponsoring – in collaboration with New Hampshire gun makers Sig Sauer and Sturm, Ruger & Company – a month-long auction in support of their cadet training program. Now, that’s nice, that effort; gun manufacturers and cops working together to help raise money for youngsters looking to potentially join the police force. What are they auctioning off? Trips to Hawaii? A weekend at a local spa? Season tickets to the closest major league club? No, no and no.This group decided that the very best way to raise funds and show support for their up-and-coming police officers who will, at some point in their careers, likely be in the line of fire in service to their duties, is to hold an auction. Specifically an auction to sell a Ruger SR-556C assault rifle and 30 other guns – one for each day of the month – to the lucky New Hampshire citizens who have the cash to be the highest bidders.
i don't think most of us know what political correctness and cultural sensitivity are those who understand the interpretation seem to give less than gnat crap about its implementation into the society.
According to The New York Times, this upcoming event was discovered by Hanover, NH Chief Nicholas J. Giaccone, Jr., as he was perusing the internet:
When Chief Nicholas J. Giaccone Jr. of Hanover pulled up information about the raffle on the Internet, he said, he was flabbergasted.
“I looked at the first weapon and Googled that one,” said Chief Giaccone, who recalled using an expletive when he pulled up information about the Ruger SR-556C, a semiautomatic weapon. “It’s an assault rifle.”
The Chief wasn’t the only one who was flabbergasted; in fact, quite a few people were incensed. A local Salem, New Hampshire citizen, Richard J. O’Shaughnessy, wrote a Letter to the Editor of the Eagle Tribune and pretty much said it all:
You might think that the New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police would show better judgment. You might think that they would have more respect for Chief Michael Mahoney of Greenland, who died in hail of bullets last April. You would think that they would have more respect for the police officers who were shot with one killed in Manchester. You would think that they might have remembered that 26 children and teachers were riddled with bullets in Connecticut last month.
Apparently not, because in a fundraising promotion for their association they are having a raffle with guns including semiautomatic weapons as the prizes. People who should know better are adding to the glorification of the gun culture in this state. New Hampshire is becoming another Somalia.
we have heard about how dysfunctional the list of mentally challenged people is from either human error or inadequate state gov't i'm thinking the latter.
