Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Brady Group Calls for Oregon Sheriff to Step Down

Guns dot com

Hanlin, who has in many ways been the public face of the law enforcement response to the Umpqua Community College shooting that left 10 dead, made headlines soon after the tragedy by refusing to name the suspect, saying in part, “I will not give him the credit he probably sought.”

While the Brady Campaign isn’t mentioning Hanlin’s stand on that subject, they are calling him to task for a 2013 letter penned to Vice President Joe Biden just days after the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

“Gun control is NOT the answer to preventing heinous crimes like school shootings,” Hanlin wrote.
He then followed this up with subsequent comments posted online apparently questioning both Sandy Hook and the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001; voicing concern they may have been staged by the federal government.

It is those comments that have the Brady group – which characterized Hanlin as a conspiracy theorist – seeing red.

“John Hanlin should tender his resignation from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office and be immediately replaced as lead investigator on this case,” said Brady President Dan Gross in a statement emailed to Guns.com. “The victims of last week’s shooting and the entire community deserve a thorough investigation that will get to the bottom of this heinous crime – an investigation that must be grounded in facts and evidence, not myth and bias.”

Gross and his organization further advocate the sheriff step down over his public opposition and refusal to support expanded background checks on private gun transfers enacted by the governor in May.

“In pledging not to enforce the new law, John Hanlin has clearly demonstrated that his political ideology trumps his responsibility to protect his community,” Gross said.

11 comments:

  1. Ha! The idiotic Brady swine want Sheriff Hanlin to resign over his common sense and honesty? Good luck with that!

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    1. Yeah, Mr. Superior has spoken again, labeling those who differ with him as idiots and swine.

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    2. Yeah, Mr. Superior has spoken again, labeling those who differ with him as idiots and swine.

      Oh, please--as if you haven't described people with whom you disagree as "idiots" and other pejoratives dozens (maybe hundreds) of times.

      Is there some kinda Hypocrite of the Year award that you're after, Mikeb? If so, I gotta say I like your chances.

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  2. “In pledging not to enforce the new law, John Hanlin has clearly demonstrated that his political ideology trumps his responsibility to protect his community,” Gross said. "

    So exactly how is this any different than various local governments becoming sanctuary cities basically ordering their officials to not enforce immigration law? Or the current administration making if you'll pardon the pun "drug deals" with two states by allowing them to legalize marijuana, which is still illegal at a federal level?
    The only difference I'm seeing is that two of these issues are near and dear to the heart of the current administration, and one isn't.

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    1. Allowing people to smoke dope isn't resulting in ANY mass shootings. That's one difference.

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    2. Sure about that Mike B?

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  3. Since the sheriff was elected, how about the people of the county decide if they want him in office or not.

    Or, let's hear these hypocrites demand the resignation of Barack Obama, who ordered the aerial bombing of a Doctors-Without-Borders hospital in Afghanistan that killed twenty-two people last week.

    orlin sellers

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    1. You really believe Obama ordered that, you silly racist nut, you.

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    2. Again, are you really sure about that Mike B?

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    3. Mikeb, who is the Commander-in-Chief?
      Are you saying that the 2,500 illegal bombings in Syria by the US weren't ordered by your president?
      Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and all the rest are free of Obama's fingerprints.
      Who's really the silly one, here?
      Let me guess, it's all Bush's fault.

      orlin sellers

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  4. Of course it. Is Bush's fault, we know that Obama and Hillary were not actually doing anything the last 7 years.

    Fuck all that jug eared Obama does is play golf, and the cankle queen Hillary, is so busy emailing about pilaties to actually defend the Lybian embassy. So of course it is all Bush's fault

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