At least 20 county sheriffs refuse to enforce new gun laws in Washington state.

[docsherm]

You know.... I bet he was trying to impress a girl or possibly another dude.

I can understand not caring about guns but threatening violence against people who have them is stupid on a number of levels

I disagree... sounds like the typical leftist mentality. Tolerance only goes towards me and my ways. Anything else sould be meet with disdain and destroyed because it goes against MY ideas.

[platoonDaddy]

A Felony charge against him would put in the "Cannot Possess" group. Wonder if he would comply?

[jsbhike]

A Felony charge against him would put in the "Cannot Possess" group. Wonder if he would comply?

Probably pardon him &/or give him a position with their state's LE to get around that.

[Firefly]

I disagree... sounds like the typical leftist mentality. Tolerance only goes towards me and my ways. Anything else sould be meet with disdain and destroyed because it goes against MY ideas.

Maybe. I don’t know. Just a thought.

I sometimes think how people can get so up on how other people live.
I have my idea of how the world should be and let’s say...

Let’s say I was a dictator. Let’s say I had a professional army of zealots who would invade any country I wanted. Destroy or build anything that I desired. That I could have people summarily executed with but a word.

It would be a lonely, lonely life because people only did it because I said so and those who agreed with me did so only out of fear or fanaticism.

It would be boring and sallow. I could indulge in pleasures of the body and flesh but there would be no love. Past a point, my ideology would no longer be my own.

Even if I was totally correct or even justified; it would be a pitiful existence. Truth would be only what I said it was. No more objectivity.

I couldn’t live like that but there are those who could and I cannot see the appeal.

People think I am on acid when I share those thoughts. But they are mine.

[LowSpeed_HighDrag]

We are doing this in CO too, but it doesn't change the fact the laws are still on the books, and the state is still getting more blue by the hour.

[ABNAK]

Maybe. I don’t know. Just a thought.

I sometimes think how people can get so up on how other people live.
I have my idea of how the world should be and let’s say...

Let’s say I was a dictator. Let’s say I had a professional army of zealots who would invade any country I wanted. Destroy or build anything that I desired. That I could have people summarily executed with but a word.

It would be a lonely, lonely life because people only did it because I said so and those who agreed with me did so only out of fear or fanaticism.

It would be boring and sallow. I could indulge in pleasures of the body and flesh but there would be no love. Past a point, my ideology would no longer be my own.

Even if I was totally correct or even justified; it would be a pitiful existence. Truth would be only what I said it was. No more objectivity.

I couldn’t live like that but there are those who could and I cannot see the appeal.

People think I am on acid when I share those thoughts. But they are mine.

There was an episode of The Twilight Zone ("A Nice Place to Visit") where a bad guy died and woke up in a penthouse. He had all the fixin's associated with that life, the best booze, easy scores with the hot chicks. He even had a pool table and he couldn't miss a shot, no matter how difficult. His "guide", if you will, was played by Sebastian Cabot. The dude makes the comment to the effect of "Gee, I never knew Heaven was so boring". Sebastian Cabot gives a hearty, loud guffaw and says "Who said you were in Heaven?"

[TomMcC]

Maybe. I don’t know. Just a thought.

I sometimes think how people can get so up on how other people live.
I have my idea of how the world should be and let’s say...

Let’s say I was a dictator. Let’s say I had a professional army of zealots who would invade any country I wanted. Destroy or build anything that I desired. That I could have people summarily executed with but a word.

It would be a lonely, lonely life because people only did it because I said so and those who agreed with me did so only out of fear or fanaticism.

It would be boring and sallow. I could indulge in pleasures of the body and flesh but there would be no love. Past a point, my ideology would no longer be my own.

Even if I was totally correct or even justified; it would be a pitiful existence. Truth would be only what I said it was. No more objectivity.

I couldn’t live like that but there are those who could and I cannot see the appeal.

People think I am on acid when I share those thoughts. But they are mine.

And when a man takes office or puts on an uniform, theory gives way to real force. I may want everyone to have a benign and harmless worldview and live in peace, but when I take that office and/or put on that uniform MY worldview and it's application now takes precedence...if it were me, I sure hope I was on the side of angels.

[Firefly]

And when a man takes office or puts on an uniform, theory gives way to real force. I may want everyone to have a benign and harmless worldview and live in peace, but when I take that office and/or put on that uniform MY worldview and it's application now takes precedence...if it were me, I sure hope I was on the side of angels.

You forget what I do for a living. And have done for a while.

At day's end, people always come first. I err on the side of preservation.

Beyond that, I leave my personal view out of it.

[TomMcC]

You forget what I do for a living. And have done for a while.

At day's end, people always come first. I err on the side of preservation.

Beyond that, I leave my personal view out of it.

I didn't forget. And isn't "preservation" a personal view in the end? There's very little, if anything, we think that is values free or possessed of some sort of neutrality.

[ThirdWatcher]

We are coming to a collision in this country between the BELIEF that the majority makes right and has sway and the FACT that Constitutional rights are not subject to popular vote. Some things, sure, a majority will rule on; Constitutional rights are not among those things.

+1. They voted themselves the right to possess and use marijuana and then choose to infringe on the rights of people who choose to possess and use firearms. Common sense is the least common sense in Washington.

Somewhere along the line these idiots need to learn that the Bill of Rights/Constitution was created to guarantee the rights of the minority from the whims of the majority.