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Wed Apr 17, 2013, 04:15 PM Apr 2013

New Hampshire legislator calls women 'vaginas' in House email

CONCORD, N.H. — A New Hampshire lawmaker apologized Wednesday for referring to women as “vaginas” in an e-mail to his House colleagues during a debate over repealing a law allowing people to use deadly force to defend themselves.

“I am embarrassed, to say the least,” wrote state Rep. Peter Hansen, R-Amherst, a day after saying he didn’t regret the remark and had used the word for shock value.

In an e-mail sent April 1, Hansen, who once used his gun to restrain an intruder at his home, referenced a speech given by another lawmaker, who described how he had been able to retreat without using deadly force in public.

“There were two critical ingredients missing in the illustrious stories purporting to demonstrate the practical side of retreat. Not that retreat may not be possible mind you. What could possibly be missing from those factual tales of successful retreat in VT, Germany, and the bowels of Amsterdam? Why children and vagina’s of course. While the tales relate the actions of a solitary male the outcome cannot relate to similar situations where children and women and mothers are the potential victims,” Hansen wrote, according to messages posted online this week by liberal blogger Susan Bruce.


More: http://www.freep.com/article/20130417/NEWS07/304170106/New-Hampshire-legislator-calls-women-vaginas-in-House-email
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New Hampshire legislator calls women 'vaginas' in House email (Original Post) Tab Apr 2013 OP
About the 4th post on this subject Mopar151 Apr 2013 #1
"I am embarrassed. I should not have spelled it with an apostrophe." tanyev Apr 2013 #2

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2. "I am embarrassed. I should not have spelled it with an apostrophe."
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 05:39 PM
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