R.I. Town Declares Itself a ‘Sanctuary’ for Gun Owners

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The town council in Burrillville, R.I. unanimously passed a resolution this week declaring itself a “sanctuary town” for gun owners.

According to the Providence Journal, the resolution says the town will support the local police department’s right to “exercise sound discretion when enforcing laws impacting the rights of citizens under the Second Amendment.”

And it says Burrillville will not comply with unfunded mandates that might require the seizure and/or storage of guns or ammunition from otherwise law-abiding citizens.
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“I’ve done business in countries where one of the primary goals of the government, their first goal, is to disarm the population," he said. "Communist China, the former Soviet Union, current day Russia, Turkmenistan, Pakistan -- I’ve done business in a lot of them, I’ve traveled to them, I’ve seen first-hand what a government will do to disarm its population.”

Fox said he believes the sanctuary resolution “will draw a line in the sand and tell Providence not only are we going to defend our constitutional rights, but we are tired of unfunded mandates and we’re going to begin to fight back.”

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/ri-town-declares-itself-sanctuary-gun-owners

Has Trump unleashed conservatives to play games like the progressives?
 
Some liberal today on the TV apparently admitted that the citizens giving up their weapons made them vulnerable to their government. I can't remember who the radio said the progressive was... the truth is our second amendment rights are not for hunting, they are to keep our government on notice... with the hope we don't have to be like Venezuela, or Germany, or Cuba, or North Korea, or.... you get the point. Man is a bad power hungry being, who without some boundaries, tends to go rotten quickly.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." ~ The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution

Venezuela banned private citizens from owning guns seven years ago, leaving firearms solely in the hands of the army and the police. Now, as the country’s opposition attempts to oust the oppressive Maduro regime from power, it is a decision some have come to regret.
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As the unrest in the country approached a breaking point, some citizens told Fox News in December that they wished they had guns available to them to fight back against the Maduro regime. A 2012 gun ban made that option all but impossible.

“It was never easy to obtain a handgun permit in Venezuela but at least before 2012 it was possible,” Daniel Di Martino, a Venezuelan expatriate, told The Daily Caller. “Since Venezuelans are unarmed we now depend on a military uprising for our freedom rather than a popular uprising.”

Under the June 2012 law, only the military, police forces, and some security contractors could purchase firearms from a state-owned weapons manufacturer. Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan leader at the time, claimed the law would curb the country’s high rate of violent crime and said the ultimate goal was to disarm all private citizens.

In 2013, just 37 weapons were handed over voluntarily. More than 12,500 were confiscated by force.
Citizens who disobey the ban face 20 years in prison.

“Guns would have served as a vital pillar to remaining a free people, or at least able to put up a fight,” Javier Vanegas, a Venezuelan teacher exiled in Ecuador, told Fox News. “The government security forces, at the beginning of this debacle, knew they had no real opposition to their force. Once things were this bad, it was a clear declaration of war against an unarmed population.”

“Venezuelans evolved to always hope that our government would be non-tyrannical, non-violator of human rights, and would always have a good enough control of criminality.”
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/30/venezuela-gun-ban-regret-maduro/

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda.... Tell the kids socialism has never worked....
 
Far West said:
Some liberal today on the TV apparently admitted that the citizens giving up their weapons made them vulnerable to their government. I can't remember who the radio said the progressive was... the truth is our second amendment rights are not for hunting, they are to keep our government on notice... with the hope we don't have to be like Venezuela, or Germany, or Cuba, or North Korea, or.... you get the point. Man is a bad power hungry being, who without some boundaries, tends to go rotten quickly.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." ~ The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution

Venezuela banned private citizens from owning guns seven years ago, leaving firearms solely in the hands of the army and the police. Now, as the country’s opposition attempts to oust the oppressive Maduro regime from power, it is a decision some have come to regret.
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As the unrest in the country approached a breaking point, some citizens told Fox News in December that they wished they had guns available to them to fight back against the Maduro regime. A 2012 gun ban made that option all but impossible.

“It was never easy to obtain a handgun permit in Venezuela but at least before 2012 it was possible,” Daniel Di Martino, a Venezuelan expatriate, told The Daily Caller. “Since Venezuelans are unarmed we now depend on a military uprising for our freedom rather than a popular uprising.”

Under the June 2012 law, only the military, police forces, and some security contractors could purchase firearms from a state-owned weapons manufacturer. Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan leader at the time, claimed the law would curb the country’s high rate of violent crime and said the ultimate goal was to disarm all private citizens.

In 2013, just 37 weapons were handed over voluntarily. More than 12,500 were confiscated by force.
Citizens who disobey the ban face 20 years in prison.

“Guns would have served as a vital pillar to remaining a free people, or at least able to put up a fight,” Javier Vanegas, a Venezuelan teacher exiled in Ecuador, told Fox News. “The government security forces, at the beginning of this debacle, knew they had no real opposition to their force. Once things were this bad, it was a clear declaration of war against an unarmed population.”

“Venezuelans evolved to always hope that our government would be non-tyrannical, non-violator of human rights, and would always have a good enough control of criminality.”
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/30/venezuela-gun-ban-regret-maduro/

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda.... Tell the kids socialism has never worked....
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I wonder sometimes.... if folks realize what the founders meant by 'necessary for a free state'...

My interpretation is: Freedom FROM oppression by others... whether it be a bully, a warlord, a criminal, a polecat, or a group of polecats!
 
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