I would actually go this Repub event

It looks as though some New hampshire Republicans are beginning to see which side their bread is buttered on.

GOP Fundraiser to feature machine gun shoot

City Republicans will be packing some serious firepower at their next party fundraiser.

Tired of the usual chicken dinners, the Manchester Republican Committee is planning to arm supporters next month with Uzis, M-16 rifles and other automatic weapons for a day of target practice at a Pelham firing range.

“The thought just struck me one day: a machine gun shoot. What the heck?” said Jerry Thibodeau, the committee chairman.

Thibodeau, who is himself a hunter and skeet shooter, pitched the Aug. 5 event as a fun social gathering, as well as a demonstration of the party’s support for Second Amendment rights.

If I’d have been able to get the day off work, I would have attended the campaigning done by Rep. Dave Reichert of Washington’s 8th District at a pistol range in Bellevue last year (even though his administration of the King County Sheriff’s Department continued the longtime policy of roundfiling all applications for Class 3 items).

It kind of makes me feel warm and fuzzy when the politicians aren’t afraid to be around heavily armed citizens.

Especially when the response from the Dems is thus

The concept prompted shudders across the political aisle. Chris Pappas, the city Democratic party chairman, called the event “not just in poor taste; it is downright offensive.”

“The citizens of Manchester have lived through a deadly spike in violent crime the past year-and-a-half, despite the campaign promises of (Mayor) Frank Guinta to lower crime rates,” Pappas said. “That the mayor’s political party would seek to glorify the use of machine guns for political gain is unconscionable.”

It’s not the guns, pussy. It’s the criminals.