Great news! A south-central Illinois county is now a self-declared sanctuary for gun owners.
That’s right, officials in Effingham County — my favorite Illinois county that ends in “ham” — have decided they won’t accept any state laws that “unconstitutionally restrict the Second Amendment.” Granted, there are no state laws that do that, but such trivial matters were of no concern to the gun-positive county board members who passed the resolution Monday on an 8-1 vote.
According to the Effingham Daily News, one resident spoke in support of the resolution and “argued that far more people die from tobacco and alcohol use than are killed by people who legally own guns.”
“We, as a society, need to stop thinking about things that don’t matter,” the man said.
Yes! We must stop thinking about things that don’t matter and focus our attention on symbolic and unenforceable resolutions that address problems that don’t exist.
The idea of a sanctuary city or county for gun owners has bubbled up in other states. It’s a not-so-subtle repurposing of the term “sanctuary city,” which is a city that limits its cooperation with federal immigration enforcement agents, offering some protection to residents who are in the country illegally.
Putting compassion for human beings on par with passion for guns is a sweet way to “trigger the libs,” and that’s pretty much the coin of the realm in U.S. counties that think gun owners need sanctuary.
WLFD-Ch. 32 in Chicago quoted Effingham state's attorney Bryan Kibler saying: “If you can be a sanctuary county for undocumented immigrants, why can't you be one for firearms?”
You tell ‘em, Bryan.
Several counties in Oregon passed something called a Second Amendment Preservation ordinance in reaction to the 2015 Oregon Firearms Safety Act, which had
