Senator Kelly Ayotte, R_N.H., is locked in a tough re-election battle with an anti-Second Amendment governor in New Hampshire. Her support for Senator Dianne Feinstein’s unconstitutional gun control bill certainly isn’t going to help in that bid.
Yesterday, Ayotte was one of only two Republican senators to vote for Feinstein’s gun control legislation. The bill was originally proposed back in 2015—“Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2015”—but Feinstein made it even worse this time around with a new amendment that grants attorneys general even more broad powers over ‘we, the people.’ This amendment also makes it even harder for innocent people to get their rights back.
Ayotte was also a co-sponsor of another gun control bill that essentially does the same things as Feinstein’s but makes it a bit easier for innocent people to try to gain their rights back.
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Clearly Ayotte isn’t paying attention to what has been going on over the past two years in her home state of New Hampshire. In that time, constitutional carry has been passed by the state legislature, not once but twice. Each time, Governor Maggie Hassan (far left wing Democrat) vetoed these bills. Hassan is now running against Ayotte for her U.S. Senate seat in 2016. Noteworthy is that all gun control bills that were brought forth in the New Hampshire legislature were also handily shot down.
Ayotte doesn’t seem to grasp the political winds in the Granite State. During the New Hampshire Senate hearing for the first constitutional carry bill (Senate Bill 116), there was almost five hours of testimony. Of all of the people who testified, only four were against the bill and three were paid hacks. That’s a lot of Granite Staters who felt it was important enough to take a day off from work to spend it in Representatives Hall in Concord. That is how the political winds are blowing in New Hampshire.
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In reality, no one should actually be surprised by Ayotte’s anti-Second Amendment stance. As New Hampshire’s attorney general, she opposed updating the Castle Doctrine from being applicable outside of your home as well. Ayotte said it would create a ‘public threat’ if people dared to have the right to protect themselves against criminals in public. Eventually the legislation passed and Ayotte was wrong. New Hampshire is still one of the safest places on planet Earth years later.
Both Ayotte and her opponent can’t seem to grasp the strong support of Second Amendment freedoms that a majority of Granite Staters enjoy and fight for. Since Hassan is the Democrat, no one expects her to do what her constituents actually want her to do. But as the Republican, constituents have higher expectations of Ayotte to uphold the Constitution. Ayotte has been veering to the left far too often lately during her re-election bid, which isn’t helping her maintain her base. Her vote for an unconstitutional gun control bill pushed by the far-left could very well be the final nail in her re-election bid coffin.
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.@KellyAyotte is Out of Touch with Her Own Constituents on Gun Control https://t.co/XuDy2KMQK9
— Conservative Review (@CR) June 22, 2016
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