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Washington Sheriffs: Do Your Job and Enforce the Law
Submitted by:
David Williamson
Website: http://constitutionnetwork.com
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County sheriffs are elected to enforce laws adopted through the legislative process and ballot box, no matter if they like them. Sheriffs are not elected to write laws, nor prosecute them. And they’re certainly not elected to act like judges with badges, deciding by fiat which laws to uphold or ignore. That’s why Washington residents should be distressed by a growing parade of sheriffs who’ve said they won’t enforce Initiative 1639, the gun-safety measure ratified by 59 percent of voters in the Nov. 6 election. |
Comment by:
Stripeseven
(2/11/2019)
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Hopefully they will not violate [Their oath of office] by being pressured into enforcing any unconstitutional provision, law or executive order.” The Sheriffs have unwavering Loyalty to the Original Constitution.
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Comment by:
jac
(2/11/2019)
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These men took an oath to enforce the constitution as all LEO and military do. It is not a matter of like or dislike the law. The law is unconstitutional and that is why they won't enforce it.
Politicians also take an oath to enforce the constitution, but we all know how ethical many politicians are. |
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As an individual, I believe, very strongly, that handguns should be banned and that there should be stringent, effective control of other firearms. However, as a judge, I know full well that the question of whether handguns can be sold is a political one, not an issue of products liability law, and that this is a matter for the legislatures, not the courts. The unconventional theories advanced in this case (and others) are totally without merit, a misuse of products liability laws. — Judge Buchmeyer, Patterson v. Gesellschaft, 1206 F.Supp. 1206, 1216 (N.D. Tex. 1985) |
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