Quote of the day: Gun control, Kentucky style

If Obama passes this, it doesn’t matter what he passes. The sheriff has more power than the federal people. They need to go back and they study that. We’re a commonwealth. I can ask the federal people to leave. They have to leave. I can ask state people to leave. They have to leave. What I’m saying is this is our home. I’m an elected official. The highest elected official, from this point on. (emphasis mine)

Jackson County Sheriff Denny Peyman, noting in a press conference that he refused to enforce any gun control legislation or action. Because he's apparently in charge of everything, everywhere.

Does it matter that plenty of other presidents have issued executive orders re: gun control? Or perhaps a little known snippet in the Constitution known as the Supremacy clause? (Hint: It's not referring to the supremacy of Kentucky sheriffs.) Nope, not when the black dude wants to take away his southern guns.

Then there's this gem that always gives me pause.

Well, it’s just like, if you take out part, it’s kind of like the Bible, either you believe it or you don’t believe it. The Constitution, either you believe it or you don’t. You either live by it or you don’t.

I'd like to check to see if Sheriff King God Peyman has any tattoos, or ever eats shellfish, or drives a car on the Sabbath (and hey - they didn't even have cars back then, so get rid of it!). Or ever cheated on his wife (death by stoning)? Or eaten a big fat steak from a cow killed in a slaughterhouse?

Because it's all or nothing, man. Especially when it comes to a black man elected by over half the country telling us what's what!


via ThinkProgress