Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis: Gun Confiscations Will Cause Civil War
BY Herschel Smith
10 years, 2 months ago
Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis’ views about how to enforce the stringent gun laws Maryland passed last year have gone viral.
In a video and print interview with a student journalist, published to YouTube on Aug. 21, Lewis says he’s no fan of government intervention in limiting the constitutionally-protected right to possess firearms.
“As long as I’m the sheriff in this county,” he says in the video, “I will not allow the federal government to come in here and strip my citizens of their right to bear arms. I can tell you this, if they attempt to do that, it would be an all-out civil war, no question about it.”
In another video on YouTube, from Delaware television station WRDE, Lewis offered a clearer critique of Maryland’s latest gun control law, the Firearms Safety Act of 2013, which was passed in the wake of the December 2012 massacre of elementary school students in Newtown, Conn.
“Who am I to tell them what they should or should not protect their families with?” Lewis asked on WRDE. “Who am I to tell them they shouldn’t have a magazine with 30 rounds behind the door when some thug is trying to break into their home? … If you start coming into people’s homes to disarm them solely because you believe they don’t have a Second Amendment right to bear arms, you better stand by. It will be, without a doubt, a civil war.”
The number of Sheriff’s deputies any county has cannot possibly wage civil war on anybody else. As for everyone else (i.e., gun owners), that’s a different story. And yes, gun confiscations will cause civil war.
I think the Sheriff gets it. All county Sheriffs are advised to take a lesson from Sheriff Lewis. It may save you and your deputies from heartache in the future.
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On September 22, 2014 at 1:40 pm, Paul B said:
Far as I am concerned Law Officers above the county level should be unarmed. Regardless of who they work for or how they think they are threatened. Some people who fear being shot performing their duties probably should be.
On September 23, 2014 at 5:30 pm, bubba said:
In our area, the sheriff and his deputies belong to our churches, gun clubs, etc. Their kids are being coached on teams by us, their kids or grand-kids attend the same schools as our kids and grand-kids. We work in their homes or at their workplaces. They know us and we know them. Whom do you think they side with?
On September 24, 2014 at 4:31 pm, Bobbye said:
Dear bubba: I think in a ‘shelter-in-place’ scenario that your local LEOs will side with Homeland Security.
On September 24, 2014 at 4:51 pm, Bobbye said:
Exodus 22:2-3 if not separated from verse 1 is likely not talking about the death of the thief but rather the death of what the thief was stealing. http://biblehub.com/interlinear/exodus/22.htm
And it would be the thief that has the bloodguilt, or not. In Esther the Jehudite was permitted to, and in fact did defend themselves with ‘assault weapons’, as also did the Maccabees. There is a much better case to be made that God is a’gin government than against self-defense.