County sheriff in charge of response to Roseburg college killings: ‘Gun control is NOT the answer’

[DisgustipatedinCA]

Praising FBI today, sheriff once threatened to block federal agents from enforcing federal law

...Two years ago, though, Hanlin was among a group of Oregon sheriffs decrying efforts made by the Obama administration after the massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.

In a letter penned to Vice President Joe Biden on Jan. 15, 2013, Hanlin issued a “formal request that you NOT tamper with or attempt to amend the 2nd Amendment.”

“Gun control is NOT the answer to preventing heinous crimes like school shootings,” Hanlin wrote. “Any actions against, or in disregard for our U.S. Constitution and 2nd Amendment rights by the current administration would be irresponsible and an indisputable insult to the American people.”

Praising federal law enforcement Thursday for the help his office received, Hanlin two years ago pledged to refuse to enforce any federal gun laws he believed ran counter to the Second Amendment.

“Any federal regulation enacted by Congress or by executive order of the President offending the Constitutional rights of my citizens shall not be enforced by me or by my deputies, nor will I permit the enforcement of any unconstitutional regulations or orders by federal officers within the borders of Douglas County Oregon,” continued Hanlin, writing one month after a gunman killed 20 children and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

http://www.sfgate.com/local/article/County-sheriff-in-charge-of-response-to-Roseburg-6543830.php

[Fred Sanders]

1. Hanlin and his ilk are insane, under some delusion they are law unto themselves...he still has the

job?

Why? He basically spat on his oath of Office, an Office that belongs to the People, not him, by refusing to obey the law he swore to uphold?!

[randys1]

27. never mind, i cant say anything, the teaparty is watching and threatening

[seaotter]

2. Some rinky-dink county sheriff's opinion is next to irrelevant.

Do his deputies agree? how about the dispatchers, janitors, local barrista?

[Lochloosa]

7. What about the dead?

Wonder what they would say.

[Angry Dragon]

3. it sounds like he is related to Kim Davis

[DrBulldog]

21. Uh, rural Kentucky and rural Oregon ... yeah, he probably is.

[Rex]

4. Troglodytes should never wear a badge or own a gun, they make for shitty human substitutes.

And they NEVER, EVER have a solution! EVER. They are kin to the GOP Congress that relies on people to forget events in the short term.

Since when is it a good idea to take a problem and add more problems to it as a solution? Never. Ever. Gun humpers are a throwback to another century and drag us all down with their antiquated views.

[Octafish]

5. Raised on Reagan.

Some minds are totally unreachable.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

6. His mind may be more reachable after today--remains to be seen. nt

[bettyellen]

9. Hows that work if he was born in 1995?

[Octafish]

10. Raised on Little Bush.

Son of Caligula.

[bettyellen]

11. you stand corrected.

[Octafish]

14. I was thinking of the Sheriff. But yeah, the shooter, if born in 1995, should know better.

If you want to go back when the Problem started, I'd say Nov. 22, 1963.

[Rex]

16. You've been corrected!

You think they will finally give you a break now that they won whatever sad battle only they were fighting?

[yardwork]

42. Seriously wtf.

[bettyellen]

8. FU and turn in your badge if you "pledged to refuse to enforce any federal gun laws "

[kelliekat44]

12. He's right. Gun control is not the answer. Elimination of guns is the only answer. Wish Obama ha

come after our guns like the wacko GOPers said he was going to do.

[randys1]

29. And it is legal too, just READ the 2nd amendment. CLEARLY states guns and WELL REGULATED

militia, same thing.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. England? Has gun control done anything for England?

[DrBulldog]

19. The gun-related death rate in the UK is . . .

. . . ONE FORTIETH of that of the United States.

Want me to say that more slowly?

[LiberalArkie]

41. I wonder how the Aussies would handle it?

[n2doc]

15. Well, will he get voted out of office?

Undoubtedly not. He would not be there if not for the people who voted him in.

Until people get fed up with the Gun fetishists and vote them out nothing will change.

[Capt.Rocky300]

35. I'm not so sure........

Maybe this event will wake up some of the people who have somewhat functioning brains and get rid of this dumb ass in the next election.

[kpete]

17. I disagree & so does OUR President:

“we know that states with the most gun laws tend to have the fewest gun deaths.” – @BarackObama

:large

[Angel Martin]

24. correlation ?

according to Brady campaign, ten states with least gun laws:

(with rank on this table of murders in brackets, LA=#1)



WI(#44), ID(#47), KY(#24), LA(#1), MT(#40), ND(#45), OK(#13), AZ(#18), AK(#28), UT(#44)

of course DC is missing and it has plenty of gun laws, and gun murders.

[DrBulldog]

18. Yes, Oregon is a strong progressive state overall . . .

. . . but Douglas county is deep in ignorant rednecks. So I wonder if today's events will have the slightest affect on that sheriff.

[spanone]

20. well, fuck him.

[NightWatcher]

22. Ok, tell him to turn in his bullet proof vest

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. He must be a member of that crazy cult....

The one that believes sheriffs are the only legit authority.

Cliven Bundy believed that crap.

Someone needs to ask this sheriff what he thinks of "the negro".

[SheilaT]

25. He's right.

What's needed is outright confiscation of all guns. Including taking them away from cops.

[Jim Beard]

26. This is the state Representatives

video from a previous date say why he opposed gun control

[link:http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/02/gun_control_sen_jeff_kruses_ta.html|

[longship]

28. I know. WE NEED MOAR GUNZ!!!

Yup! That's yer answer.

[Jim Beard]

30. Here is another one of the wonderful state senator

[link:

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[passiveporcupine]

31. Oregon is considered a blue state

But most of it is still red and full of gun nuts. It's a hunting state, like Vermont, but for some reason, it's not just hunting rifles that are protected by the gun nuts. So, I don't really think hunting has anything to do with it. It's just a gun fetish, so long ingrained into much of the population, it will take the feds removing guns to do anything about it.

Columbine was really the start of the recent trend in mass shootings. Before that most of the mass killings were done by older men who just couldn't handle failures or losses in their lives (maybe they were always mentally unstable, but life stresses drove them over the edge).

Now, since Columbine, it's mostly young men (and boys)...who haven't even had time to accrue a lifetime of losses or failures. It's our social environment that pushes young men who are having difficulty in life to go postal instead of just committing suicide like they most likely would have done before. And the notoriety...the fame from the media attention and the ability to plan and boast about it on-line before they ever even do anything. But also the availability of awesome nasty looking military style weaponry that allows them to go out like Rambo.

I really am at a loss at how to deal with this. Too many things need to change...the most important to me is in removing these kinds of weapons from the hands of civilians.

[rockfordfile]

32. The gun nuts

[Plucketeer]

33. I asked my gun-loving neighbor

about todays slaughter and what he thought might be done about it. Naturally, ARM all the faculty to afford students protection! RIGHT!

I can just see Rambo teachers and janitors whipping out their piece and taking a stance like some cop show clown. It's a CRAZY nation we got here - this one rife with the well disciplined militia.

[jalan48]

34. At a minimum they need to immediately abolish open carry.

Citizens need to know that if they see someone openly carrying a firearm in public it is illegal. Right now gun huggers can carry rifles into stores slung over their shoulder like modern John Wayne's. The average citizen has no defense until it too late, no way to know if the person carrying the gun is about to go on a rampage. Others laws can follow but this is a start.

[Dont call me Shirley]

36. In other words he says "I love my gunz, I need my gunz, I can't live without my gunz".

lets face it folks, these people are gun addicts.

[workinclasszero]

37. Of course not

MOAR GUNZ is the only acceptable answer when some insane mass murderer takes out multiple victims.

Just ask the NRA.

GUNZ are good business don't you know? And that's all that matters in Amerika.

[Major Nikon]

38. Obviously we need more gun nuts to keep us safe from the gun nuts

[Scalded Nun]

39. It seems to me that every rare time a law gets passed it promptly gets 'killed'

What I would like to see is a sane SCOTUS reinterpret the 2nd amendment as pertaining to only those officially part of a federally a/o state sanctioned militia (Nat'l Guard).

There should be no problem passing laws once that happens.

[haikugal]

40. He sounds like a sovereign citizen. n/t