Posted on 03/27/2018 1:03:04 PM PDT by Sopater
“On Wednesday March 7, 2018, I was asked to address a group in West Asheville and relay information as it pertains to current gun legislation in NC.,” Buncombe County Sheriff candidate R. Daryl Fisher told visitors to his campaign Facebook page. “I took this opportunity to relay proposals on what I believe to be sensible gun legislation.
“A group”? Why not just come out and say it was Michaels Bloomberg’s Moms Demand Action?
“As a candidate for Sheriff, I cannot enact legislation,” Fisher goes on to deflect. “If elected Sheriff I cannot enact legislation. But as a candidate for Sheriff, I can propose what I believe to be sensible gun legislation. It is up to our legislators to determine what becomes law.”
What he’s obscuring is that law enforcement officials can be extremely influential in persuading lawmakers to act, and as sheriff, he would enthusiastically enforce citizen disarmament edicts. That he would take an oath to the Constitution seems not to trouble Fisher, as there are evidently no citizen disarmament laws he would refuse to issue to his subordinates or to obey himself.
He would enthusiastically enforce forbidding citizens old enough to serve in the military or the “unorganized militia” of U.S. Code from purchasing guns. He would ban standard capacity magazines for everyone (except the “Only Ones”), along with any firearm that has “some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia [or] is any part of the ordinary military equipment, or that its use could contribute to the common defense.”
How far would he go?
“There is one statement that many up to now have taken offense to,” Fisher notes, getting to the reason he felt compelled to post a Facebook clarification. “That statement starts out with language similar to, ‘Don’t believe the scare tactics,’ and I say that some gun enthusiast might say, ‘You will have to pry my gun from my cold dead hands.’
He’s glossing it over. He’s taking heat because his “joke” involved killing gun owners who would not surrender their firearms. What good would the Second Amendment be if we did?
“What about people that already had weapons? Well, I’m gonna tell you now, don’t buy into the scare tactics, don’t believe the scare tactics, because you’ve heard people say ‘You’ll have to pry my guns from my cold dead hands,’” Fischer admonished.
“OK, he grinned and shrugged to delighted laughter and applause of the Bloomberg Moms.
So don’t believe your lying eyes and ears? Ther afterthought of adding “Whenever you pass away…” was just that. His audience had already registered its unqualified gleeful approval, and besides, stealing from the dead or their grieving survivors isn’t much of a mitigator.
Fisher goes on to trivialize that “joke” by saying taking guns “would be unconstitutional because that would constitute what is called an ex post facto law” and that “responsible gun owners have nothing to worry about.”
What he’s not saying is that edicts could be passed, as they have in California, requiring gun owners to register the firearms he wants to see banned, and anyone who does not comply will be “fair game” for his shrug and “OK.” He also supports other prior restraint edicts that could order guns removed from citizens who have not been convicted of any crime. And face it, any official who would willingly and forcefully violate the Second Amendment is hardly a trustworthy arbiter of what’s Constitutional.
“Being downright rude, making false statements, making half-truths or being utterly disrespectful is unacceptable,” Fisher protests, like he’s the injured party, before urging voters to “properly voice your opinion … on election day.”
They will and whomever they pick will be predictably big on “gun control. ” Fisher’s one of three Democrat candidates out of a field of seven, Buncombe County “is the only Democratic bastion in western North Carolina” and it went big for both Obama and Hillary.
They’ll be “OK” with a badged gun-grabber.
The people who will operate the camps are all around us.
Precisely so.
Trigger Happy and Crazy ,lock this idiot up don’t make it Sheriff
They’ve been here since people like Bill Ayers debated how many Americans they’d have to kill after the revolution.
No this guy is looking at jail time himself. He has violated Federal law and has been turned into the authorities.
Your next door neighbors and your church’s members will be the ones to take away your 2nd Amendment.........................
fascist made there way to the united states and call themselves democrats.
Consider him to be the norm in law enforcement. There is no law so vile or so repugnant that police would not enforce it. Take the case of the French police in WWII. The enthusiastically rounded up Jews for their Nazi masters even knowing that they were sending their fellow citizens to their deaths. Any fool that says "Oh but it would be different here." has to postulate that human nature is different between now and here and then and there. It isn't.
This guy and the moms can try to Come and Take it!
That bastard just threatened to kill gun owners who will not surrender their guns. I would consider that a threat if deadly force and therby entitled to defend myself. I dont care if that SOB is a sheriff. We’ve seen recently what that can ammount to. At some point the respect goes away. We don’t want that.
He is a liberal, gun-grabbing damned democrat...and he blew it...and he knows it.
He was getting eaten alive, the comments running somewhere around 99% negative.
Some were very graphic on what would happen if he were elected and came for guns.
Good.
The pukes need to know what's in store for them if they keep that crap up.
#7 ~ Red Badger wrote:
Your next door neighbors and your church’s members will be the ones to take away your 2nd Amendment.........................
Respectfully disagree.
Sadly, Red is right. This was the same situation in Nazi Germany. The government will do the “see something, say something” spiel to get neighbors to turn in neighbors out of fear of prosecution. There’s historical precedent for it.
These are the same people who would GLADLY put us all into ovens if they had the chance..Hitler did it, and the left wants to do it again
This NC sheriff would be the one signing off on your CCW license app.
I imagine it would not be a smooth process even though NC is a shall issue state.
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