Posted on 01/02/2020 4:09:44 PM PST by RandFan
Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie thinks some local law enforcement leaders will be willing to go to jail rather than comply with state gun control laws they deem unconstitutional.
"Attended my first 2A sanctuary meeting today in Lewis County (where I live). Standing room only. Friends and neighbors spoke passionately and articulately. County officials unanimously passed a resolution," Massie tweeted on Dec. 30. "This grassroots movement feels even stronger than the Tea Party in 2010."
Second Amendment sanctuary municipalities last year sprouted up in Illinois, a state with some of the strictest gun control laws. They then spread to Colorado, Kentucky, New Mexico, New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia, Washington state, and other states.
Massie cited Weld County, Colorado Sheriff Steve Reams, a critic of the state’s “red flag” law, who has offered to put himself in his own jail rather than enforce the state law.
“His county government has already voted to fund his legal fees should he end up in a protracted legal battle that might go all the way" to the Supreme Court, Massie told the Washington Examiner.
“And so that's one of the things that when you boil it all down and say, ‘What does the sanctuary county movement mean?'” Massie said. “So, what it could mean is that county governments decide to use taxpayer dollars, with the blessing of the taxpayers in those counties, to support the sheriffs in their court battles.”
Massie compared the potential circumstances to the jailing of Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis by a judge when she refused to sign same-sex marriage certificates in 2015.
“A lot of people didn't think she was willing to do this, but she resisted a judge's order to issue marriage licenses with her name on it, and she refused to do it, and he found her in contempt and threw her in jail without a jury trial,” Massie said.
“So, she was basically a political prisoner," Massie said. "She stayed in jail until it became a national issue.”
In Virginia, gun control proposals, including a firearms ban, universal background checks, magazine capacity restrictions, and a rollback to one firearm purchase per month, have surfaced since Democrats won the majority in both legislative chambers, along with Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam. Some rural sheriffs began talking up the "sanctuary county" idea in anticipation of the upcoming legislative session, with Democrats in full control of the state government.
The Democrats don’t understand that the Rubicon has been crossed. They went too far and made clear that full-on authoritarian communism is their goal and now they have inspired people to finally rise up and oppose them.
But we can’t stop with just gun control. We need to put an end to their entire agenda starting in the public schools.
The old time Jail Breaks might come back, too.
Amen.
The ideal credential for long-term reelection.
Possibly a modern day, “Battle of Athens” is what will occur in the very near future. Virginia probably has the best chances of it.
A better approach is to arrest and put them in jail rather than let them lock us up.
No, they won’t. Any sheriff who protects the Constitution will be protected by those who elected him. Count on it.
“...starting in the public schools”.
Yep. There in lies the problem. The Leftist/Communist have been successful in their Long March through American ed.
Just look at the contrast in what is going on in Hong Kong. 60-70% of the population in the streets protesting communist rule, thirsting for the freedoms we have and here we have elected officials trying to take it away from us.
Start WITH the public school system. Eliminate it. Go entirely to a voucher system for private run schools. Let parents decide which school is best for their kids’ individual needs.
Jail won’t be necessary in most instances. There will be constitutional challenges to almost all criminal charges on this which will result in stays until the federal courts rule on them.
Nearly all state firearm laws have exemptions for law enforcement.
If Virginia is like Tennessee, the sheriff is an elected position and the deputies are all basically his staff. And if they are like most deputies, their allegiances lie with the sheriff more than some politician in Richmond.
The big problem with the vouchers is that with government money comes government control.
The big problem with the vouchers is that with government money comes government mcontrol.
If the government that the money comes from is the state government, it would be better than if the money came from the national government.
An awful lot of money already comes from the federal govt. The state education agencies control it, and squander it every chance they get.
If this many people are THIS passionate about this issue, where were they on election day?
Are they really THAT outnumbered?
We’ve understood this forever. But quasi conservatives are beginning to realize the liberals are not going to be satisfied until they have us on trains headed to the gulag.
Part of the school budget comes from the federal government.
If these laws are unconstitutional, why haven’t they been taken to court? Don’t conservatives have the equivalent of that damn Hawaiian judge somewhere?
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