Tuesday, March 16, 2021

States as gun sanctuaries

 There’s a guy named Bell, a candidate for Supervisor in Penn Forest Township, who has been going around urging Carbon County municipalities to declare themselves 2nd Amendment sanctuaries.  I wrote a letter to the Times News trolling him by saying we should become 3rd Amendment sanctuaries.  The resolutions Bell is pushing are silly, and they won’t have any force of law.

More serious are states like Texas and Missouri that are passing legislation calling their states sanctuaries.  In Missouri the state House passed a bill that would allow police departments with officers who enforce federal gun laws to be sued and face a $50,000 fine.

That idea is called “nullification.”  It was proposed by John Calhoun as a way for states to “nullify” a federal law they opposed.  Calhoun was a racist U.S. Senator from South Carolina prior to the Civil War.

Calhoun’s theory was settled once and for all by the bloodiest war in U.S. history.  In case you (and the state House in Missouri) forgot, the United States won that war.

1 comment:

  1. You tried to Troll Mr.Bell he in turn sent in a counter to your troll, he made you look like a complete fool I’ve been hoping to see you try and make a comeback but there is nothing that you could say that wouldn’t change the fact that you already made yourself look like a fool.

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