WaPost-Sheriffs issue a call to arms

[AlanM]

Sheriffs issue a call to arms: ‘Take advantage of your legal right to carry a firearm’

Sheriffs across the country have been calling their citizens “the first line of defense” against crime — a call to arms that some say is a new phenomenon following terrorist attacks at home and abroad.

A sheriff in Wisconsin wants “as many law-abiding citizens to arm themselves in this country as we can get.” One in New York state told people who are licensed to carry a gun to “please do so.” In Florida, one sheriff said: “I can tell you the probability of needing a firearm is remote, but it’s more important to have a gun in your hand than a cop on the phone.”

The proclamations come after suicide bombers and gunmen terrorized Paris, a gunman opened fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs and two attackers – since linked to Islamic extremism – gunned down a crowd at a social services center in San Bernardino, Calif.

[OakRidgeStars]

As if you couldn't tell by this article, sheriffs are elected to office. They know their constituents pretty well otherwise they wouldn't make statements like this.

With that being said, I hope everyone takes his advice.

[dorminWS]

Hmm. I've wondered if this movement among some local LEOs to actually acknowledge 2nd Amendment rights as well as the wisdom and even the necessity of exercising them might have had anything to do with the Obamunists' move to take back some of the military hardware the feds have handed out in the past; like maybe it has occurred to them the local Sheriff would be an adversary rather than a willing pawn.

[Mindflayer]

Sounds like that's why the VSP have been cooperating with Bloomberg and the Administration - fear of losing those dollars.

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