Posted on 09/27/2011 9:09:27 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
When Ruidoso, New Mexico Mayor Ray Alborn issued an order banning the carrying of firearms in city owned buildings last month, he couldn’t have imagined he would be faced with nearly 100 armed, irate gun owners at the next meeting of the city council.
But 2nd Amendment supporters from all over the nation came to the little town to express their outrage at Mayor Alborn’s ham-handed affront to law abiding American citizens.
And express themselves they did as speakers went one by one to the microphone, “…most of them with their guns holstered by their sides.”
“You are just as much a tyrant for requiring someone to surrender their civil rights to carry a firearm in order to participate in their government as you are in asking them to surrender their right to vote or anything else,” said one of the meeting attendees.
Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, Larry Pratt made the trip to Ruidoso to inform Alborn that “almost all of the mass murders in our country have occurred in areas just like you’re fixing to set up, in gun free zones…”
Like so many liberal political hacks, Alborn is convinced that guns belong only is the hands of the police, as officers are exempt from his edict.
Also typical of his breed is Alborn’s whining lament threatening resignation if his wishes are not followed.
“My responsibility is the health, safety and welfare of our [city] employees so if we’re not going to be able to do these kinds of things I’m not sure I want to be sitting in this seat,” he said upon being confronted with the actual will of the people he was elected to represent.
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
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He threatens to resign? Take him at his word.
Then, resign, Asshole. People like you have no business sitting in government at the expense of the taxpayers.
Where's the Tombstone "Well, bye" graphic when we need it?
Don't let the door . . .
:: “My responsibility is the health, safety and welfare of our [city] employees ::
The employees? Not the citizens?
Must be they are members of a public union, right?
Thanks, you caught me while I was recreating it. See post #9... :)
Thanks, you caught me while I was recreating it. See post #9... :)
Either the Constitution is the Law of the Land, or it isn’t!!
Tin gods who fancy themselves lord and dictator will have their heads handed to them just as this mayor did.
Is he gone, yet?
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