NH Again in the National News

Well, THAT makes me feel better (4.00 / 4)

It is now being tweeted that Rep. Tasker says he was carrying one gun, not two.

Tasker also said that the gun fell to his feet, and burt for the "clunk" no one would have known. Call me crazy, but I think when he picked it up and put it back in his shoulder holster the other people in the room might have noticed.  



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Tue Mar 20, 2012 at 20:10:45 PM UTC

that's a curious (0.00 / 0)

sort of justification Rep. Tasker is offering up for behaving irresponsibly.  

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by: susanthe @ Tue Mar 20, 2012 at 20:13:17 PM UTC

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Hey, there's ... (4.00 / 3)

... no such thing as bad publicity, right? Right? (Groan.)

Just had to check in here today. You can't make this stuff up.

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by: michael57 @ Tue Mar 20, 2012 at 20:38:30 PM UTC

This narrowly-averted disaster comes on the heels of the Florida shooting (4.00 / 1)

of an innocent 13 year old by a trigger-happy and over-zealous neighborhood "watcher."  This guy was carrying a gun and shot a young man who had done nothing provocative, let alone threatening. He will likely not be charged with any crime because of the same "stand your ground" law we have here in NH.  I''m certain our gun zealots in NH will not see any connection.  Innocents getting shot is just the price we pay for F-R-E-E-D-O-M!

 "The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved,"  unattributed aphorism

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by: susaninrindge @ Tue Mar 20, 2012 at 21:32:07 PM UTC

The story in NHPR (4.00 / 4)

was about Trasker and the guns, not about the awful bill that was being heard in the committee, the one mandating women wait 24 hours before getting a legal medical procedure and be given scientifically false information by their doctors. That is disturbing enough. The anti-woman zealots in the House GOP want to charge anyone not complying with a class A felony.

That should have been the story. But no..the sideshow had to take over.

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by: Jennifer Daler @ Tue Mar 20, 2012 at 21:57:36 PM UTC

Rep. Daler makes an excellent point (0.00 / 0)

about what a good job our media are doing to set the agenda. Unfortunate that they chose to concentrate on the comedy of Tasker dropping his phall-- er, um, weapon on the floor, when the real tragedy was the item under discussion.

Apparently not as interesting as someone doing an impression of Barney Phyfe.

November 2012
Hope for a return to sanity.

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by: GreyMike @ Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 02:26:49 AM UTC

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*Fife (0.00 / 0)

musta got Barney mixed up with his cousin Duncan. Feeling a little loopy, have rest awhile now.

November 2012
Hope for a return to sanity.

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by: GreyMike @ Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 02:32:19 AM UTC

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LOADED gun, correct? (0.00 / 0)

That was the report I heard.

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by: elwood @ Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 00:49:52 AM UTC

'loopy' is a mischaractization (0.00 / 0)

He donated blood, and failed to correctly readjust/refasten his holster while replacing it (having removed it while giving blood)

So it appears that no good deed goes unpunished.


BH's token Republican / Libertarian / TeaPartier / Free Stater, courtesy of a Federal Affirmative Action grant.

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by: SethCohn @ Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 01:29:30 AM UTC

thank you Rep. Cohn (4.00 / 4)

for proving my point. Someone who is too impaired to handle their holster had no business with a gun.  

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by: susanthe @ Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 01:44:26 AM UTC

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Oh, and loopy (4.00 / 1)

was the term Tasker used to describe himself to a reporter.  

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by: susanthe @ Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 01:46:25 AM UTC

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A gun is not a fashion statement (4.00 / 2)

Or an ideological statement. Except the NH state house where some loopy reps think packing in Reps Hall or the LOB  makes them look cool.

It doesn't.

You and your pals give the 2nd amendment a bad name.



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 02:08:42 AM UTC

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no way the blood donation left him loopy (4.00 / 1)

He like the rest of these strange folk started out loopy. I don't know exactly what you call where they're going or coming from, or even where they hope to end up except 'round the bend.

These folk have never been outside our fair state, at least I hope not, because then I could at least understand the lack of any human perspective as to how nice and safe it is in these parts of the globe. I have no clue as to what terrors they are plagued with up there in the venerable NH Statehouse,that make them want to go arm themselves, since they must know we live in one of the top 5 safest states. But they also know the world is populated by more people like themselves.
Scary thought, no?

note: I know it's not okay to use a preposition to begin a sentence with...I just can't help myself  

note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other

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by: JonnyBBad @ Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 01:32:07 AM UTC

Thinking of Edward.... (4.00 / 4)

My Dad died over 40 years ago.  He kept two working rifles and a shotgun at our camp while I was growing up, and a large collection of antique firearms of all sorts, illustrating the various firing mechanisms developed over the years at home.  Not to mention the others kept in the gun room in my grandfather's attic.  Seldom has anything brought his voice back to me like the spate of recent examples of irresponsible gun ownership in the NH House.  I cannot begin to imagine what he would have done if any of us had been so cavalier with a firearm.

I can almost hear him..."WHAT do you think you are doing...?" and I almost think I can detect a faint whiff of Hoppe's No. 9 in the air...

Here is a fact that should help you to fight a little longer.
Things that don't actually kill you outright make you stronger.

Piet Hein, Grooks

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by: Lucy Weber @ Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 01:36:05 AM UTC

I grew up with guns in the house (4.00 / 4)

My father wouldn't even let me point a toy gun at anyone while playing Davy Crocket.

The new second amendment fetishists in our state don't get it.

It's all about them. Nothing else matters.

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by: Chaz Proulx @ Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 01:56:13 AM UTC

Corretc me if I'm wrong... (0.00 / 0)

...but isn't it illegal for members of the public to carry guns to these meetings?

If so, why can a representative do it?

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by: IgnoreAtYourPeril @ Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 02:25:43 AM UTC

Oh I see now they repealed the carry ban last year (0.00 / 0)

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by: IgnoreAtYourPeril @ Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 05:32:06 AM UTC

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this isn't even the first time (0.00 / 0)

Last year another member of the House dropped his gun on the floor of the anteroom to Reps Hall.  His holster accidentally became unbuckled.  


sitting state rep: running for re-election in 2012.

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 09:53:43 AM UTC

This isn't the SECOND time. (4.00 / 2)

Rep. Mirski's pistol fell when he sat down during a redistricting committee meeting. He didn't notice and we sat watching his pistol on the floor pointing at us through the entire meeting.

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by: Chuck Townsend @ Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 10:49:20 AM UTC

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Just remember this instance (0.00 / 0)

Now I foresee a new legal defense - the "Loopy Defense." Your honor, I only shot that unarmed child because I was "loopy." Please forgive me, that is the way we are in New Hampshire." Perhaps this new defense will make it in time for the guy who shot Trayvon Martin to death as part of his neighborhood watch in Florida. It would work particularly well there where the elderly seem to be continuously "loopy." They elected Scott after all when his company was required to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for their Medicare fraud.

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by: xteeth @ Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 11:16:56 AM UTC

This keeps coming back to me, (0.00 / 0)

the sign that one of our local Free Staters made for Tasker's campaign:

SEND A TASKER TO THE STATE HOUSE

No matter who this person really is, what he believes, how he acts, he's one of the Northwood Taskers, his grandfather is a Northwood icon, the Man in the Tin Hat, and the name is enough reason to put him in office.  

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 11:52:37 AM UTC

"responsibility" is like "accountability"-- (0.00 / 0)

It means that persons (humans) are able to respond; in contrast to a door post, which is deaf and dumb and does not respond. Indeed, the instinct-driven are entirely responsive to prompts, since they do not perceive themselves as acting on their own (being self-directed).  They respond to their gonads, as if they were some external force. Think of Pavlov's dogs responding to the ringing of the dinner bell.

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by: hannah @ Wed Mar 21, 2012 at 21:52:52 PM UTC