Gabby Giffords New Group Defies Statistics
New Hampshire is now home to a brand new gun control group, set up with the help of former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, in an effort to expand background checks.
Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Captain Mark Kelly, announced the organization, the “Granite State Coalition for Common Sense,” at press conference Tuesday. The gun safety advocates argue New Hampshire has a number of loopholes in their gun laws that need to be addressed, prompting the need for the local group.
Kelly was quoted as making the outrageous claim that NH has a gun problem — one death every three days from gun violence in the Granite State. However, State Rep. J.R. Hoell points out that New Hampshire has some of the lowest crime rates in the country. There were just 12 reported homicides in 2014 according to statistics from the FBI, half of which were committed with weapons other than firearms. The only state with a lower rate is neighboring Vermont, which has half the population of the Granite State.
Gun rights activists and Hoell argue that expansion of checks is a slippery slope to weakening the Second Amendment, with Hoell saying, “Universal background checks will lead to registration, which will lead to gun confiscation. Period.”
Most feel that Giffords and Kelly as paid gun control (astroturf) lobbyists working with one-worlder Michael Bloomberg, former Mayor of NY, have no right to try to change the laws of New Hampshire.
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