Posted on 10/05/2015 12:09:35 PM PDT by jazusamo
A prominent gun control advocate is calling for the resignation of the Oregon sheriff leading the investigation into the recent shooting who he labeled a pro-gun “conspiracy theorist.”
Douglas County sheriff John Hanlin ruffled feathers with gun control groups after it came to light that he sent Vice President Joe Biden a letter in January 2013 threatening not to enforce stronger gun laws.
According to reports, Hanlin also posted a conspiracy video on his Facebook page suggesting the government was behind the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting as well as the 9/11 terrorist attacks in a coordinated effort to “disarm the public.” He later distanced himself from the video and denied claims that he is a conspiracy theorist.
This has enraged gun control activists.
Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said the “overwhelming majority of Americans don’t want a 9/11 and Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist leading the investigation.”
“We are calling on John Hanlin not only to be replaced as the lead investigator, but also to be immediately removed as sheriff,” Gross told reporters.
“As sheriff, he has shown he has no qualms about putting his ideology over his responsibility to protect his citizens,” Gross added.
The controversy over Hanlin emerged after last week’s shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, where shooter Chris Harper-Mercer killed nine people and injured many more.
Shortly after Hanlin took over the investigation, it was discovered that he previously had spoken out against gun reforms.
In the letter to Biden, Hanlin and other sheriffs said “Gun control is NOT the answer to preventing heinous crimes like school shootings.” Hanlin also suggested he would not enforce stronger gun laws.
Hanlin also posted a video on his Facebook page suggesting government conspiracy theories about 9/11 and Sandy Hook, writing, “This makes me wonder who we can trust anymore…"
Gross called him an “extremist.”
“The sheriff charged with enforcing the law has openly vowed to break it,” Gross said.
No, he's a totalitarian leftist. He's pursuing his evil agenda. Tirelessly.
Rust never sleeps.
The left has gone mad with power. They want to silence and fire and jail and institutionalize anyone who disagrees with them.
I “call on” Dan Gross to move to Venezuela and enjoy the gun free workers paradise.
You’re exactly right, leftists are just happy as can be as long as you agree with them not only in actions but in thoughts. If you think differently than them they want you eliminated.
Let me get this straight; you can decline to enforce immigration law and make your city a haven, you can decline to enforce drug laws, but you cannot support the second amendment?
You don't fire a sherriff ... you campaign against him and win the election over him
While I think claiming our corrupt government had anything to do with 9/11 is a bit of a stretch, it would not surprise me at all if it were discovered some leftist group/gun control group was responsible for encouraging one/some of the school shootings. Find someone on the edge, drug dependent, and push them...
At any rate,what the brady organization “wants” is totally irrelevant, and so are it’s leaders. Especially if their last names are “Gross”....
Yep, according to this idiot. Fortunately the sheriff and the voters don’t agree.
Exactly!
Show up - have him arrest them for inciting to intimidate or something.
If they want him replaced, well Sheriffs are elected. Have at it. Run an anti-gun liberal against him.
Wait ‘til Gross finds out the constitutional power an elected sheriff has over Federal agents.
He’ll get really “enraged” then.
I hope he goes bats**t crazy. :-)
So let me get this straight. Gross wants this sheriff out for using his 1st Amendment rights and doing a bit of critical thinking on his own rather than being a leftist drone.
Uh huh. It makes perfect sense (to a leftist drone) when put in perspective.
Goes?
Well said, you’re right on.
Good point. :)
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