{"id":21061,"date":"2019-12-12T11:56:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T17:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=21061"},"modified":"2019-12-12T11:56:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T17:56:25","slug":"21061","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=21061","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Northam says localities could face \u2018consequences\u2019 if law enforcement officers don\u2019t enforce gun laws<\/a><\/p>\n

‘The law is the law’: Virginia Democrats float prosecution, National Guard deployment if police don’t enforce gun control<\/a><\/p>\n

Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill say local police who do not enforce gun control measures\u00a0likely to pass in Virginia<\/a>\u00a0should face prosecution and even threats of the National Guard.<\/p>\n

After November’s Virginia Legislature elections that led to Democrats taking control of both chambers, the gun control legislation proposed by some Democrats moved forward, including universal background checks, an \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban, and a red flag law.<\/p>\n

Legal firearm owners in the state, however, joined with their sheriffs to form Second Amendment sanctuary counties, which declare the authorities in these municipalities uphold the Second Amendment in the face of any gun control measure passed by Richmond.<\/p>\n

Over\u00a075 counties in Virginia<\/a>\u00a0have so far adopted such Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions in the commonwealth, the latest being Spotsylvania County. The board of supervisors voted unanimously to approve a resolution declaring that county police will not enforce state-level gun laws that violate Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

Virginia Democratic officials, however, already say local law enforcement supporting these resolutions will face consequences if they do not carry out any law the state Legislature passes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would hope they either resign in good conscience, because they cannot uphold the law which they are sworn to uphold, or they’re prosecuted for failure to fulfill their oath,\u201d Democratic Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly told the\u00a0Washington Examiner<\/i>\u00a0of local county police who may refuse to enforce future gun control measures. \u201cThe law is the law. If that becomes the law, you don’t have a choice, not if you’re a sworn officer of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democratic Virginia Rep. Donald McEachin suggested cutting off state funds to counties that do not comply with any gun control measures that pass in Richmond.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey certainly risk funding, because if the sheriff’s department is not going to enforce the law, they’re going to lose money. The counties’ attorneys offices are not going to have the money to prosecute because their prosecutions are going to go down,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

McEachin also noted that Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam could call the National Guard, if necessary.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd ultimately, I’m not the governor, but the governor may have to nationalize the National Guard to enforce the law,\u201d he said. \u201cThat’s his call, because I don’t know how serious these counties are and how severe the violations of law will be. But that’s obviously an option he has.\u201d<\/p>\n

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring blamed the numerous Second Amendment resolutions in the state on the \u201cgun lobby\u201d as a tactic to frighten state residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe resolutions that are being passed are being ginned up by the gun lobby to try to scare people. What we\u2019re talking about here are laws that will make our communities and our streets safer,\u201d Herring\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0CBS 6.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cSo, when Virginia passes these gun safety laws that they will be followed, they will be enforced,\u201d he added.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gov. Northam says localities could face \u2018consequences\u2019 if law enforcement officers don\u2019t enforce gun laws ‘The law is the law’: Virginia Democrats float prosecution, National Guard deployment if police don’t enforce gun control Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill say local police who do not enforce gun control measures\u00a0likely to pass in Virginia\u00a0should face prosecution and … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-unintended-consequences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21062,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21061\/revisions\/21062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}