More Rhode Island Communities Jump On Sanctuary Bandwagon

By Tom Knighton

Townhall Media/Beth Baumann

As our politics become more and more divisive, the differences between urban centers and smaller communities seem to be highlighted. Smaller communities, typically rural ones well away from the urban enclaves, tend to embrace the Second Amendment in ways that more urban centers don’t.

In our current climate, anti-gun activists and lawmakers no longer bother to pretend to care about what those smaller communities care about when it comes to the Second Amendment. In Rhode Island, a lot of those smaller communities are making it clear that they’re willing to return the favor.

It isn’t on the scale of revolutionaries burning a British tax ship, or even West Warwick’s secession from Warwick a century ago. But dissension is brewing in western Rhode Island over gun rights and the region’s resentment of Smith Hill urbanites.

Following the lead of jurisdictions in eight other states, a handful of Rhode Island’s rural communities are considering declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuary communities — places where the constitutional right to bear arms won’t be infringed no matter what state lawmakers pass this session.

Town officials say they’re employing the same kind of defiance as are “sanctuary cities” that pointedly oppose the federal government’s immigration …Read the Rest

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