The sheriff of this quiet, semi-rural area of Oregon made no secret of his strident opposition to tougher gun laws. In high profile, he made his views clear in a letter to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. posted on his department’s Facebook page on Jan. 16, 2013, after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Mr. Hanlin urged the vice president to treat his letter as “a formal request that you NOT tamper with or attempt to amend” the Second Amendment.
“Gun control is NOT the answer to preventing heinous crimes like school shootings,” he wrote, adding that efforts to restrict gun ownership “would be irresponsible and an indisputable insult to the American people.”
The sheriff also warned the vice president that “any federal regulation enacted by Congress or by executive order of the president offending the constitutional rights of my citizens shall not be enforced by me or by my deputies, nor will I permit the enforcement of any unconstitutional regulations or orders by federal officers within the borders of Douglas County Oregon.”
Three days before that letter was released, Mr. Hanlin shared a link on his personal Facebook page to a highly detailed, investigative YouTube video, which suggested that the shootings at Sandy Hook might have been staged by the federal government to provide a pretext for “disarming the public” through gun control legislation.
In a comment imploring his Facebook friends to watch that video, whose producer claims that the parents of children “allegedly shot” at Sandy Hook were actors, and comments from the school nurse were touted even though she does not exist in reality. The sheriff wrote, “This makes me wonder who we can trust anymore.”
After that update attracted criticism, it was removed from Mr. Hanlin’s personal Facebook page on Friday, but not before numerous screenshots were made and shared online.
Source: NY Times
In looking at how the media and White House dove right into the Umpqua situation, passing judgement prior to knowing any issues, one must question things:
Why, within six hours would Obama grab control of the narrative, pull it away from Oregon, refer to himself 9 time in just two minutes, and then charge in with Gun Control rhetoric?
Why would the Los Angeles Times run an article insisting that the Oregon gunman was a “white supremacist” when in truth his mother was black?
Why did CNN deliberately alter the gunman’s photo to make him look white when he clearly is mulatto in real life?
In truth, the dead gunman left an extensive manifesto and online posts. He had very left leaning political views strongly reflecting the White House’s favorite race-baiting and balkanization issues – such as Black Lives Matter and violent anti-Christian views.
And why were several, armed military vets on campus restricted from stopping the carnage?
Why would this sheriff post Sandy Hook conspiracy theories on his Facebook page and then state he didn’t do so later?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JGhIOm_s2k
I saw this earlier. I think he posted it but who cares….. I think the liberal mainstream media hanging him out to dry for refusing to release information.
He was half black Angel Toro
He shouldn’t back peddle.
Instead he should investigate the Oregon shooting, himself if he has to.
Angel that report is double speak nonsense. It makes zero sense, maybe you should actually read it.
Angel stop trolling. You’re just making yourself look like a shill (maybe you are?).
Whoa, I just listened to exactly why Obama keeps getting away with say still funding an non govt enitty with taxpayer monies.
I was listening to Ted Cruz at the podium speaking on this. As long as their lobbyhists on K street (a street down the road from
The Congressional building, if the Lobbyists say, go along with the Iran deal, they cave because Obama has learned that all he has to do is to mention “shutdown; and they all cave. I will take the strong will and an Iron hand to undo the damage Obama has done, if we live through it, and I have researched, watched him for hours in Texas, spoken with him as a Sentinel from Heritage Action at our 2nd Annual Summit, and one thing you can never do is to con a con, or con someone who has the education and the knowledge of how things work and that you can’t just pull a rabbit out of a hat to the public who are carefully in tuned to what is going on. The old song is definety right here when it says”,meet the new boss same as the old boss, we won’t get fooled again. ” The Republic leadership is in cahoots with the Democrats who are so ideologically pathological about what they believe in that they will crawl over glass with a knife in their mouths for something they think is right, Republican greybeards are spending so much time fighting good men who want to break this corruption from the top down and who always has in the past DONE what he said he would do.. Republics want the Conservatives out because theses are the men and women who could definitely break the Washington madness and if they are really going to give Iran that much money, look what Bin Laden did with just a little money he planned 911, imagine the Iranians with nukes. Kooks with nukes.But why is it so important to give Iran nukes and we just now found out yet another treasonous act. The Argentina President just came out and told the world that Obama had approached her to help him give the Iranians who were desperately hurt under our sanction. But here is the kicker…that was three(3) years ago.She basically said she blew his deal because of his “arrogance” and that she would never do business with someone no respects! Ted Cruz is the Reason that the Republicans are after him with negative ads from John
Speaker John Boehnerof his own party. They will cave again over the debt limit.Obama says do it and say no way, then he mentions the words,”shutdown,” and there is no more debate. The worst is Cornyn, who I know and how if I could only tell of what I know of this man in his position as a prosecutor and then a judge, he would resign, but that would let my source who has been my best friend for well over 35 yrs and has the information because he clerked for him when he was a judge. But I would blow him as my source. . It is so because Cornyn is powerful that no one dare take him on. Number USA even gave him C- last year, and this he got an F- in Texas, this guy AIN’T working for you .It has been my experience, or at least my great grandmother’s that by the time you begin to scream that you want you country back, you have already lost it. Kinda like the frog slowly boiling and doesn’t realize until it is too late! P. Kathy Kleiman
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