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A campaign to carry

Posted: October 19, 2014 at 8:51 pm

The owner of the Boscawen pizza parlor looked uncomfortably at the 45 mm handgun strapped to Robert Forsythes hip.

The gun was legal, Forsythe told him reassuringly. A Republican candidate for a House seat in Merrimack County District 8, Forsythe who pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon without a permit earlier this year has campaigned almost entirely on Second Amendment issues.

Sometimes, he said, when asked whether people get nervous around the gun or question him about it. They never say anything, really. If they do, its usually a chance for him to educate them about existing gun laws.

The gun is legal because New Hampshire has long been an open carry state, where residents can carry a handgun without a permit as long as its visible. After his arrest, Forsythe got his concealed weapon permit, which allows him to carry the gun hidden from view or with him in a car something that isnt legal under the open carry law.

The focus of Forsythes campaign is something candidates expect will create controversy during the next legislative session: the prospect of constitutional carry. Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona and Vermont are among the states that have constitutional carry, in which a government-issued license to carry isnt mandated.

I would co-sponsor constitutional carry, and if I cant push that through, Ill at least try to sponsor legislation to allow loaded rifles in cars. Nobody ever uses a rifle in road rage, said Forsythe, a 32-year-old former U.S. Army medic.

Issues such as the economy, Medicaid expansion and Northern Pass are secondary to Second Amendment issues for Forsythe, and he isnt shy about it.

Its been proven many times . . . the more armed citizens you have, the safer you are, Forsythe said.

The gun-regulation divide surfaced again recently after the state Department of Safetys changes to the concealed carry license application prompted pushback from gun-rights activists. Constitutional carry discussions will be taken up this next session, said Pat Sullivan, executive director of the New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police.

This keeps rearing its head in many different forms, Sullivan said. What we have currently works, and if its not broken, dont try to fix it.

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Topeka attorney defends abortion provider's killer in First Amendment case

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Scott Roeder, imprisoned for the murder of Wichita abortion provider George Tiller, is awaiting a Leavenworth County judges ruling over whether the Kansas Department of Corrections wrongly disciplined him after concluding he threatened another abortion provider.

Roeder is represented by Topeka attorney Billy Rork, who said he thinks the department violated Roeders right to freedom of speech.

Rork said Friday he is working free of charge to represent Roeder, an acquaintance since they were teenagers, who wrote him a letter asking for his help. Rork said he took the case mainly because Im a big First Amendment guy.

Rork appeared on Roeders behalf at a Sept. 2 Leavenworth County hearing before Judge Dan K. Wiley, who has yet to rule in a civil suit Roeder filed last year against the corrections department. Court records show attorney Sherri Price represented the KDOC at the hearing.

Roeder, 56, is an inmate at Ellsworth Correctional Facility. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for 50 years after being convicted of first-degree murder in the May 31, 2009, shooting death of Tiller, one of the nations few late-term abortion providers. Tiller was attending church in Wichita when Roeder shot him point-blank in the forehead. Roeder also was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault after he pointed the gun at two other men in the church.

The Associated Press reported Roeder was being held last year at Lansing Correctional Facility when the corrections department disciplined him after concluding he made threats of violence against a different Wichita abortion provider during a telephone interview with an anti-abortion activist. The activist put a recording of the call on YouTube.

The recording included discussion about how Julie Burkhart, executive director of the abortion rights group Trust Women, had opened a womens health center providing abortion services in the Wichita building Tiller used. Roeder could be heard saying it was death-defying for someone to reopen that clinic.

He added, To walk in there and reopen a clinic, a murder mill where a man was stopped, its almost like putting a target on your back saying, Well, lets see if you can shoot me.

The Associated Press reported Roeder was given 45 days in disciplinary segregation with no outside communication, followed by 60 days of loss of privileges and a $20 fine.

Rork said Friday that Roeder hadnt realized the activist was recording the conversation and would post it online.

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