“We’re defenseless, come and kill us,” is the message that occupants of “gun-free” zones unwittingly broadcast to the frightening alternate universe where terrorists and mass murderers live and thrive.

Mass killings are rare, premeditated, and nearly impossible to predict. No amount of mental health screening and no amount gun control – even to confiscation – will stop mass killings.

When considering the possibility of having to confront mayhem, we must keep in mind the admonition that “When seconds count, the police are minutes away.”

Honest cops tell us that our first line of defense against violence will always be ourselves.

Because police have no constitutional obligation to protect anyone, the recent Newtown, Conn., horror once again instructs that to improve public safety, each of us must rediscover, understand and be able to plan and act upon our individual, unalienable right of self-defense.

On Jan. 2, the opening day of New Hampshire’s 2103-14 legislative session, the New Hampshire House of Representatives will vote on whether or not to adopt newly proposed House Rule 63.

House Rule 63 would ban deadly weapons from Representative’s Hall and its immediate surroundings.

Democratic leadership in the new House majority wants to disarm all those whom we have elected to represent us.

Before dutifully obeying their leaders and voting to adopt Rule 63, Democrat members might first pause to consider that killing sprees worldwide have taken place primarily in gun free zones – on gun-free campuses, in gun-free parks, in gun-free theaters, in gun-free malls, in gun-free government buildings, on gun-free islands and in gun-free schools.

Democrat members need to fully understand that the message their leaders would convey from the membership of the House to the worst of sociopaths living among, is that “We’re defenseless, come and kill us.”

Rep. Paul Mirski

Enfield Center