Man With Gun in Bag was Lawmaker

[maxanne]

http://www.concordmonitor.com/stories/news/state2003/072003_lawmaker_gun_2003.shtml

This is one of the reps in my district in NH - in fact I ran against him in 2002. We pay our state reps $100 a year - and clearly, this man is overpaid.

His nickame is "Crow" by the way. No wonder the rest of the nation thinks we're a bunch of dumb, gun totin hicks.

WE ARE!!

[realFedUp]

1. good one

tell us more about your run against him.

[maxanne]

3. due to redistricting

4 reps were elected from my district. I live in the most Republican county in the state. The NH House has 400 reps. Three of the Repub candidates were incumbents - including Crow Dickinson. There were 4 Repub candidates and 2 Democrats. This was the first time in years that any Democrats ran against them - and they weren't very happy about it. They tore my signs down every night.

Of course, we all lost - but it sure was a learning experience, for me and for them.

[aquart]

7. Next time you think a sign will be torn down

You might want to coat it with itching powder, or some other fun substance.

You know, like the dye packs in banks or on certain designer clothing.

[maxanne]

8. oh, fun

Good idea!!! If I run again I'll remember this. :-)

[DEMActivist]

2. OK, help me here.....

He said he had put the gun in the suitcase earlier. Then, when he was packing for the National Conference of State Legislators in San Francisco, he checked two or three times to see whether the gun was still in the bag.

When he couldn't find it, he assumed he'd already unpacked it, he said. He found out he was wrong at about 8:30 a.m. Friday when he was going through airport security and "I looked up and saw everybody staring into the monitor."

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So, what??? the guy STORES his gun in a suitcase and that's why it was there to begin with? Come on folks, I need to understand why the gun was IN the suitcase to begin with. This is a valid storage place for a loaded weapon?

[maxanne]

4. don't try to understand

because it's never going to make sense. There are holes in that story you could drive a bus through. He's managed to stay in office forever without ever uttering a coherent statement.

I'm betting he was liquored up - and I want to know why he needed to take a gun to a conference of state legislators?

[mainer]

5. Does anyone know what happened ....

to the gun-in-the-teddy-bear case? it was all over the news a few days ago, then it vanished. it still gives me the chills. Some strange girl knocks on your hotel room door and gives your kid a teddy bear "as a gift." And then it turns out to have a loaded handgun?

Was someone else on their flight planning to grab the teddy bear and use the gun while in the air?

[Heddi]

6. I thought the same thing

rather interesting scenario, don't you think.

In fact, I'd think this type of scenario is just the type of thing that Homeland Security would be all over---who was on that flight? Who gave her the teddy bear? Did they have any association with anyone on that flight?

and yet we hear nothing. Not a peep. A 30-second blurb on CNN's saturday rotation.

Wonder what they would have done if it was a Koran with a gun inside of it? Think we'd have threat-level red by now? I'm sure we would....