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SHERIFFS THREATENED FOR NOT SUPPORTING GUN MEASURE
Columbia Basin Herald ^ | Feb. 6, 2019 | Charles Featherstone

Posted on 02/08/2019 1:52:29 AM PST by gattaca

EPHRATA — It seems ironic coming from gun control advocates.

But law enforcement agencies across Washington state are looking into threats to kill county sheriffs who have said they will not enforce last year’s gun control measure, I-1639, which was approved by state voters with a little more than 59 percent of the vote.

According to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office, around 1 p.m. Monday the department was told about threats made online specifically against Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich.

“(S)heriffs that are non compliant will be shot. (B)y me,” said the online threats, apparently posted on a Facebook page. “Ozzie Knezovich is gonna get a bullet in his skull.”

Sheriffs and police chiefs from counties across less densely populated eastern Washington, including Grant County Sheriff Tom Jones, have said they will not enforce the new measure until its constitutionality has been determined by the courts.

In response, someone posted a comment on Facebook to Jones’ statement in which they said “(I) am going to kill every single one of them,” referring apparently to Republican elected officials.

“Sheriff Jones is aware of the threats made on social media and the Grant County Sheriff’s Office is cooperating in the investigation,” reads a statement from the Grant County Sheriff’s Office.

“Spokane County Detectives are investigating these online threats, and this information will be forwarded to the JTTF (Joint Terrorism Task Force) and law enforcement agencies across the state,” read a statement from the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.

I-1639, as passed last November, would impose tighter restrictions on gun ownership, including raising the age limit to buy a gun from 18 to 21, and creating more expansive background checks. The National Rifle Association and the Second Amendment Foundation are suing to block implementation of the measure, claiming it violates the U.S. Constitution.


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1 posted on 02/08/2019 1:52:29 AM PST by gattaca
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To: gattaca

This was the plan all along. Deny the people the means to resist...

Once the citizens are disarmed, kill anyone who doesn’t comply.

That’s how it’s always gone.


2 posted on 02/08/2019 2:13:40 AM PST by Hugh the Scot (I won`t be wronged. I won`t be insulted. I won`t be laid a hand on. - John Bernard Books)
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To: PROCON

Ping


3 posted on 02/08/2019 2:19:16 AM PST by TADSLOS (The trouble wth political jokes is that they get elected.)
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To: Hugh the Scot

Yet there’s always the people that say “oh, that can’t happen here.”


4 posted on 02/08/2019 2:20:50 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: gattaca
  .. tick .. tick .. tick ..
5 posted on 02/08/2019 2:35:40 AM PST by tomkat
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To: gattaca

And law enforcement in the Leftist part of the state won’t assist in the ID, arrest, and conviction of those making the threats.

Thus we head a little further down the road to Civil War II.

I really hope it doesn’t come to that, that our countrymen come to their senses. It won’t be friendly like last time.


6 posted on 02/08/2019 2:54:17 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Hugh the Scot
We've told the Left, time and again, that threatening men with guns won't end well. They won't listen.

It's getting time to move to the next step...

7 posted on 02/08/2019 2:56:01 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: FreedomPoster

I agree—it will be much much more than ‘the recent unpleasantness’ of April 12, 1861 – April 9, 1865.


8 posted on 02/08/2019 3:00:23 AM PST by jimbug
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To: gattaca

Civil disobedience is what should meet any gun law. I know it is hard to do since we all want to be ‘law abiding’ but the leftists are out there and want to control you.

This is where we can take our cue from Martin Luther. we must march against this ‘slow boil of the frog’ tyranny.

JoMa


9 posted on 02/08/2019 3:00:34 AM PST by joma89
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To: jimbug

On a related note, here’s a vid from last Saturday of an Antifa march in the Atlanta area with some armed and some masked marchers. They are marching under Communist banners.

https://youtu.be/HC4AUSL9HaM


10 posted on 02/08/2019 3:11:00 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: gattaca; TADSLOS; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; AZ .44 MAG; ...

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11 posted on 02/08/2019 3:42:33 AM PST by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
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To: gattaca
The dripping irony of "threats" of gun violence against LEO's and gun owners.

I guess that only the enlightened get guns to kill those who disagree. What a tool.

12 posted on 02/08/2019 3:43:54 AM PST by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. T)
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To: gattaca

Here is how lynch mobs work. In any group of 100 individuals, 10 are outright sociopaths capable of any violence imaginable, but largely held in check in normal circumstances by consequences. Another 10 people are, through some combination of low intelligence, testosterone poisoning, bad upbringing or other cause, inclined to violence if they can get away with it. Of those 20 people only one is a certified crazy person.

Another 10 of the 100 are provocateurs who want something to happen but don’t want to be blamed for it. They are the ones who initiate the shouts for violence. (Today they are often “entertainers.”) The other twenty, including the crazy, whose contribution at this point is relatively inconsequential, initiate the violence and the lynching commences. The provocateurs may or may not involve themselves, but if they do, they won’t get hurt as they are cowards. (You may see them on Facebook holding a fake, bloody severed head as a “joke.”)

Those anonymously, or through Facebook “jokes,” calling for somebody to commit violence are not themselves of any physical danger to the potential lynchee. They are the provocateurs. In the modern social media age, it is only the one certifiable crazy person in the group of 20 who is an actual danger to the person threatened. He hears voices that are directed, in this age, by social media. He will, with varying levels of skill and risk, plot and plan and act. The problem is, in the age of digital lynching’s, that the crowd can be of any potential size and the number of total crazy people is potentially very high.


13 posted on 02/08/2019 3:46:32 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: gattaca

Remember the date: 19 April, 1775.


14 posted on 02/08/2019 4:32:54 AM PST by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: gattaca

wait I thought lefties were against guns?

“Ozzie Knezovich is gonna get a bullet in his skull.”

Maybe they should just put a banana in his tailpipe... no pun intended.


15 posted on 02/08/2019 4:39:55 AM PST by VastRWCon (Fake News)
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To: VastRWCon

Man... you gotta be a special kind of stupid to openly threaten a sheriff...


16 posted on 02/08/2019 5:18:15 AM PST by CaptainKip
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To: Hugh the Scot

See my tag line.

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17 posted on 02/08/2019 5:20:15 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Plan accordingly.)
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To: gattaca

Has Washington state even figured out how to implement I-1639? Because like I-676, it is impossible for the state to implement it as required under the law.


18 posted on 02/08/2019 5:22:38 AM PST by Widget Jr
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To: FreedomPoster

I thought it was against the law in Georgia to march wearing masks? The law was an anti Klan measure that a nut case postal worker in S. Florida fell afoul of back in the ‘90s.

The guy was known as Hank the Nazi, went on the Sally Jesse Raphael show once to expound his views too.

Anyway he went to a Klan march in Stone Mountain and wore his sheet costume and was arrested, the mask being prohibited.

He was fired for calling in sick from jail, falsifying a leave slip,lol.


19 posted on 02/08/2019 5:33:07 AM PST by skepsel (Apres moi, le deluge.)
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To: gattaca

“law enforcement agencies across Washington state are looking into threats to kill county sheriffs who have said they will not enforce last year’s gun control measure”

That in itself shows how insane some people are...


20 posted on 02/08/2019 5:38:46 AM PST by maddog55
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