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MI: County votes for gun rights
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The Alpena County Board of Commissioners voted 8-0 Tuesday to support a resolution that supports the Second Amendment and the public’s right to bear arms.
The resolution is not the same one presented to the county by Second Amendment supporters last month and doesn’t label the county as a “sanctuary” for guns.
The resolution is non-binding. All governments must obey the Constitution, and federal law trumps state law and local ordinances. |
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"All governments must obey the Constitution, and federal law trumps state law and local ordinances."
Federal law is supreme only if it is "made in pursuance [of the Constitution]". (U.S. Constitution Article IV Section 1. §2)
The purpose of the sanctuary movement is precisely to protect the people from laws that are NOT "made in pursuance thereof."
The argument dismissing 2A resolutions assumes that all state and/or federal laws are constitutional until the SCOTUS rules that they aren't, which is facially ridiculous.
The majority of the people reject that assumption, and the people have the final say. |
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| No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion. — James Burgh, Political Disquisitions: Or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses [London, 1774-1775]. |
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