Our Second Amendment

The Ledger dated 3/3/21 contained an article concerning our Second Amendment. It stated there is a proposal under consideration by the Sanders County commissioners to make Sanders County a Second Amendment Sanctuary County.

I am writing today to encourage the citizens of Sanders County to contact the Sanders commissioners and send a message of support for this proposal. If you can’t send a message on the county website, call the commissioners at 827-6942 and leave a message, it only takes a couple of minutes. They need to hear your support for this issue.

In the Ledger article, one of the commissioners said that he had received a few messages on this issue and they were mostly against it. I have lived in Sanders County for quite a while, and I am pretty sure that the majority of our residents are in favor of our Second Amendment rights. Most of our citizens also realize that the federal government is coming after our Second Amendment right in a big way.

The Second Amendment was written to give the citizens of this America the power to throw off the heavy hand of government, and illegal laws that infringe upon our rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Right now in Washington, D.C., there is an ongoing effort to take away, or limit our First Amendment rights, speech, religion and peaceful assembly.

The federal government is deeply involved in this effort, the only thing standing between us and slavery under this budding socialist-communists style government is our Second Amendment. I am getting to be an old guy but a long time ago my dad taught me that if they can infringe on the Second Amendment they can take the rest away. As long as we are armed they are unable to advance their agenda.

I strongly request that all the patriots in our county send a message to the county commissioners concerning where they stand.

In the military they call it showing the flag, it shows where we stand. Making Sanders County a Second Amendment Sanctuary County will assure us that our Second Amendment right is secure.

I stand with the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and like Sheriff Rummel, I too am willing to die on that hill. Let us all stand together or we hang alone. Please show your support.

Don Nance,

Trout Creek