Jinx attempt — let’s see if putting this thread up prompts a resolution in Watertown.
As a liberal, fairness requires me to point out that New Hampshire has “the third-largest legislature in the English speaking world”, which means one representative for every 3,300 residents, 2,937 of whom could not pick them out of a police lineup. As a Masshole, I am required to point and laff whenever some Granite(headed) Staters go full-metal FREEEEEDUMB! Snooty elitist NYMag reports:
New Hampshire Republicans are less than thrilled about the state legislature’s recent vote to repeal stand-your-ground laws, which protect your right to shoot other people in self-defense without trying to retreat or flee first. For example, State Representative Peter Hansen wants to know: Who will think of the vaginas and children?
In response to an opponent’s anti-stand-your-ground speech, Hansen e-mailed the all-legislature listserv the following, obtained by a local blogger Susan the Bruce (h/t Salon):
“What could possibly be missing from those factual tales of successful retreat in VT, Germany, and the bowels of Amsterdam? Why children and vagina’s of course. While the tales relate the actions of a solitary male the outcome cannot relate to similar situations where children and women and mothers are the potential victims.”
…After a fellow lawmaker chastised Hansen for being crude on a legislative listserv, he replied-all:
“Having a fairly well educated mind I do not need self appointed wardens to A: try to put words in my mouth for political gain and B: Turn a well founded strategy in communication into an insulting accusation, and finally if you find the noun vagina insulting or in some way offensive then perhaps a better exercise might be for you to re-examine your psyche.”
To which we will only add that Hansen sounds like a total penis. A penis who can’t punctuate.
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