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This California Town Wants To Be A Sanctuary City For The 2nd Amendment
The blistering sun hung high above the barren landscape, 118 degrees of scatter-the-critters hot, as Tim Terral loaded a magazine into his 9-millimeter pistol.
He narrowed his eyes, fixing his gaze on a target before a succession of pops cut through the silence. Bull's-eye.
Satisfied, Terral wiped a bead of sweat off his brow and cocked his head to the side, a coy smile spreading across his slender face.
"I don't miss much," he crowed.
Today, his attention was focused on a small shooting target. But Terral has his eye on a larger one: California's tough gun control laws.
Last month, other city leaders followed the Needles councilman's suggestion and declared this town along the Colorado River a "sanctuary city" for the 2nd Amendment.
The collision of liberal and conservative buzzwords was meant to be a poke in the eye to the Golden State — the heart of the liberal "resistance" against a president voters in Needles overwhelmingly supported in 2016. And likely will again in 2020. This conservative small town is part of California, but also quite apart from it. Those big-city politicians making laws in Sacramento, many people here are convinced, don't give one damn about a place like Needles.
In the coming months, city officials hope to somehow cajole the state to allow Needles and possibly other border towns to be exempt from rules on purchasing ammunition, which would allow people here to buy ammo from out of state, and honor concealed carry permits for people who have obtained them outside California.
"For so long we've had to deal with the laws as they are," said Mayor Jeff Williams. "It was time to stand up and say, 'Enough.'"
What Needles wants would seem a tough ask in a state with widespread support for gun control -- and never more so than after now-familiar mass shootings, like the one that rocked the Northern California town of Gilroy on Sunday. A gunman at the Gilroy Garlic Festival killed three people -- including a 6-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl -- before being shot dead. A dozen other people were injured, including some who are fighting for their lives.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-california-town-wants-to-be-a-2nd-amendment-sanctuary-city-for-guns-and-ammo/ar-AAFaK0d
He narrowed his eyes, fixing his gaze on a target before a succession of pops cut through the silence. Bull's-eye.
Satisfied, Terral wiped a bead of sweat off his brow and cocked his head to the side, a coy smile spreading across his slender face.
"I don't miss much," he crowed.
Today, his attention was focused on a small shooting target. But Terral has his eye on a larger one: California's tough gun control laws.
Last month, other city leaders followed the Needles councilman's suggestion and declared this town along the Colorado River a "sanctuary city" for the 2nd Amendment.
The collision of liberal and conservative buzzwords was meant to be a poke in the eye to the Golden State — the heart of the liberal "resistance" against a president voters in Needles overwhelmingly supported in 2016. And likely will again in 2020. This conservative small town is part of California, but also quite apart from it. Those big-city politicians making laws in Sacramento, many people here are convinced, don't give one damn about a place like Needles.
In the coming months, city officials hope to somehow cajole the state to allow Needles and possibly other border towns to be exempt from rules on purchasing ammunition, which would allow people here to buy ammo from out of state, and honor concealed carry permits for people who have obtained them outside California.
"For so long we've had to deal with the laws as they are," said Mayor Jeff Williams. "It was time to stand up and say, 'Enough.'"
What Needles wants would seem a tough ask in a state with widespread support for gun control -- and never more so than after now-familiar mass shootings, like the one that rocked the Northern California town of Gilroy on Sunday. A gunman at the Gilroy Garlic Festival killed three people -- including a 6-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl -- before being shot dead. A dozen other people were injured, including some who are fighting for their lives.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-california-town-wants-to-be-a-2nd-amendment-sanctuary-city-for-guns-and-ammo/ar-AAFaK0d
God it's almost like they try to be a bigger asshole than the next guy. Also, totally missing the point of both gun control and sanctuary cities.
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