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AndyS

(14,559 posts)
Mon Aug 23, 2021, 12:35 PM Aug 2021

The gun culture has declared war on the United States. [View all]

Second amendment sanctuaries are becoming a threat to the security of the country and government at all levels.

DOJ intervenes in lawsuit against Missouri state law attempting to invalidate federal gun regulations

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday filed a 28-page statement of interest in a lawsuit filed by the city of St. Louis challenging a Missouri state law that prohibits enforcement of federal firearms laws and subjects state and local law enforcement officers to civil suits and monetary penalties.
https://www.jurist.org/news/2021/08/doj-intervenes-in-lawsuit-against-missouri-state-law-attempting-to-invalidate-federal-gun-regulations/

Second amendment sanctuaries have been symbolic only and without the force or effect of law. The US Constitution clearly makes federal law the supreme law of the land that is superior to any state or local law. It's real simple. Article VI, section 2 says in no uncertain terms the following: “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. “

However, recently the Second Amendment movement and the militia movement that it feeds is becoming a direct challenge to the very structure of American democracy. In the last year more than 1,000 cities, counties, townships, and villages declared themselves “sanctuaries” where “unconstitutional” gun laws will not be enforced.

For the most part 'second amendment sanctuaries' are just pandering to the gun nuts by bloviating politicians who would rather prostitute themselves to guns than govern. The only thing localities can legally do is withhold resources to enforce federal laws, they cannot interfere with federal or local agents enforcing those laws. The Missouri law does just that by placing punishment on anyone attempting to enforce those federal laws about guns. It is a direct assault on the Constitution of the United States.

Learn about the gun sanctuary movement here: https://www.thetrace.org/2020/01/second-amendment-sanctuary-movement/

It seems irony is not dead; gunners are citing the Constitution to overthrow the Constitution.

What the fuck is wrong with us?
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