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NH GOP Rep: Guns on Campus Will Prevent Violence

by: William Tucker

Thu Nov 17, 2011 at 06:00:00 AM EST

The House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee recently voted to recommend passage of HB 334, a bill that would prohibit local governments or state agencies from enacting any ordinances or regulations regarding gun use and possession.

In response, officials from Great Bay Community College in Portsmouth wrote letters to their representatives emphasizing the dangers in eliminating current restrictions on gun possession on college campuses. They urged the representatives to amend the bill to allow the state’s community college and universities to continue to set gun policies for their campuses.

GOP state Rep. Mark Proulx was incensed by their "ridiculous" objections and fired off an email, first reported by the Huffington Post, with the claim that allowing guns on campus will prevent violent incidents.

"For people that are supposed to be so smart, you never learn from history," Proulx wrote from his state email account. "The history lesson you should have learned is that gun free zones become killing zones*. These killing zones are the places that crazy people who are looking to make a name for themselves go."

"Not to mention when these incidents happen there were people there that could have stopped the killing early on but could not," he wrote. "They could not because they were following some ridiculous law or rule that would not allow them to carry the weapon they wear every day."

* Proulx was quoting historian Rep. Al Baldasaro who testified in favor of repealing the gun ban in the New Hampshire Statehouse.
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So much for the laser-like focus on the economy.. (0.00 / 0)
Just this week, UC-Berkeley campus police shot and killed a student who brandished a gun at them on campus.  How does this Bill help the economy, create jobs, promote public safety or do anything constructive for the people of our state? Shameful.
Of course (4.00 / 2)
Guns always prevent violence. Just look at our murder rate compared to Europe's. And while you're at it, check what the leading cause of death in the American workplace is.


A Reminder from the Campus Police: "Which One of You is the Good Guy?" (4.00 / 1)
Rep. Proulx's dream of avenging sophomores protecting their fellow students from danger is a recurring fantasy, ignoring the carnage - 100,000 shot, killed or wounded a year according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence - wrought by guns.

In 2008, a UNH student who wanted to carry a side arm on campus tried to make the "guns mean safe classrooms" argument. He got a lesson from UNH Deputy Police Chief Paul Dean on how things would work out in the real world when officers responded to a report of shots fired.

"If I enter a classroom and there are two people with a gun," Dean said, "who do you think is going to die?"

If you were an officer running into a classroom as two people traded gun fire, what would you do?


Typical Republican Thinking (0.00 / 0)
I can remember advocates of the Bush tax cuts who said "cutting taxes will increase revenue." Sounds like unbelievable B.S., right? Well we see what happened to the revenue stream. This is an argument using the same logic. If we have MORE of the "instrument of bad behavior" then we will have less of the bad behavior. Yeah, right.
It just goes to show that Republicans live in an alternate reality.
Or, alternately, they are trying to arm the populace in an effort to get them to kill each other, so they can pillage the public coffers without any interruption from anyone who makes less than $500k/year (or whatever the number is this week).
No Relation (4.00 / 3)

I'm not related to Mark Proulx.

Just thought I'd make that clear--LOL

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