Johnson County Sheriff Critical of Gun Control
Associated Press - Mon 07:40 AM 01/21/2013
Johnson County Sheriff Frank Denning says having more responsible people in possession of firearms is a better way to prevent mass shootings.
The sheriff of Kansas' most populous county says more gun control laws wouldn't have prevented the theater shootings in Colorado or the school shooting in Connecticut.
Johnson County Sheriff Frank Denning says having more responsible people in possession of firearms is a better way to prevent mass shootings.
Denning posted a message on his sheriff's office website Friday likening gun control to "unilateral personal disarmament." He says the Founding Fathers would be spinning in their graves at the idea of politicians imposing restrictions on law-abiding citizens.
Denning has held the elective post of sheriff for more than 11 years.
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Associated Press information from: the Kansas City Star
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TheCleaner
Monday 21 January 2013 09:49 Report this comment
This is the kind of sheriff Saline County needs not the one we have.
passing_by
Monday 21 January 2013 11:59 Report this comment
It seems more and more sheriff departments across the US are making this stand. Also individual states are passing Firearms Freedom Acts. (Wish Kansas would also do this.)
Aurora.
Monday 21 January 2013 23:19 Report this comment
Kansas so far has been mum on this. But Brownback's romance with Texas should give us a firearm freedom act shortly.