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It has been said that things are not changes all around for the better. So I was reading new articles online, when I came across this one from the Concord Monitor. I have read about several such cases and ironically usually they do include a resident of the “progressive” state of Massachusetts. In this article, you have an 81 yr old man who has been hunting since he was 13. For those of us who have never hunted (never had the stomach to actually kill an animal), most people who skin and then take the meat out will hang and drain the animal’s body. This gentleman as for decades hung the deer and other animals on a tree in his front yard. Someone anonymously called this into police, who of course had to investigate. I cannot fault the police here, but I fault the person who called it in.

“Did you tell them to go back to Massachusetts? That’s what we do up here,” Henry Ladd Jr., 43, recalled saying to the officer.

The police investigate and since nothing illegal was being done, they left, but it brings up an interesting point. Is something someone else is doing that harms NOBODY, but that someone else disagrees with, give anyone the right to stop it? Am I fearful of mobs of people trying to break into my home? Nope, just the ravenous undead *snicker*. Am I fearful of being mugged by armies of degenerates as I walk to my car? I am cautious and keep an eye out for what is around me, but no. So again, does that give ANYONE else the right to say I cannot carry something for personal defense because they don’t see a threat? Again, the answer is no. And that is the schism that I see in our country right now. On one hand you have people who have never harmed another person in their life, and on the other, you have a group of people who feel they know what is best for everyone. This includes my above point on self defense, taxation, and the role of government.

I am not saying we shouldn’t have a federal government. I am not saying the government shouldn’t have assistance programs. I am not saying every citizen should be allowed to own an M1 Abrams. I am also saying I do not have all of the answers, but some of the legislation whether it be guns or air fresheners on your car’s rear view mirror shows me that the people writing this legislation don’t know either.

Whether you disagree with my viewpoints on guns, freedom, taxation, government organizations, or even on the existence of the tooth fairy, you HAVE to admit things ARE changing even here in NH. It sometimes feels like legislators put laws on the books to make themselves feel better rather than really facing a problem, and no, I am not even talking about the 1,990 page health care “reform” bill.