The Origins Of Second Amendment Sanctuary Communities

By Tom Knighton

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From the first moment I heard of a jurisdiction deciding to become a Second Amendment sanctuary, I couldn’t help myself. I laughed. Not because the idea was ridiculous, but because it was just so beautiful.

As progressives lash out, screaming about the rule of law, they forget that the origins of this movement lie with them [emphasis mine]:

While the ordinances are not legally binding, Cibola County Sheriff Tony Mace says that, in the case of the universal background check bill, they’re meant to signal sheriffs’ unwillingness to carry out a law that he describes as “unenforceable”—a “feel-good” measure aimed at appeasing the state’s gun-reform activists without doing enough to support sheriffs.

Mace, who is also the president of the New Mexico Sheriffs’ Association, says that he came up with the idea for the sanctuary resolutions one day while he was driving home from a particularly frustrating committee meeting for the background check bill, during which he says sheriffs’ concerns had largely fallen on deaf ears. The initiative, he is quick to point out, was directly inspired by the immigration sanctuary movements that have been spearheaded in liberal communities throughout the country, in which certain jurisdictions direct …Read the Rest

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