“Patrick Sullivan was such a popular sheriff that Arapahoe County renamed the jail after him when he retired,” ABC News reports. “Sullivan, arrested on drug charges this week, is now an inmate in the Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility.”
What happened?
The former top cop in Arapahoe County, which includes Littleton, Colo., is facing charges that he planned to distribute methamphetamine after police found him allegedly offering to trade the drug for sex with a man.
Curious. Pathetic and sad, if true.
And outrageous for those of us who do not face such inner demons, or display such profound hypocrisy and lack of self control. For Sullivan was a major proponent of citizen disarmament, the demand that law enforcement official like him—who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and whose department was a recipient of “war on drugs” largesse—should be the “only ones” society trusts as sound enough to keep and bear modern firearms.
From an NBC Colorado affiliate, 9News.com, we find:
At the time [a 1989 standoff], Sullivan used the event to champion gun control. He held up a semiautomatic weapon on TV and demanded more restrictions.
And from Second Amendment scholar, author and attorney Dave Kopel we learn:
[T]he most powerful enemy of the Right to Bear Arms in Colorado is a Republican, Sheriff Pat Sullivan of Arapahoe County. He refuses to grant licensed, trained citizens a permit to carry a gun for self-defense. He abuses and misapplies federal law in order to harass gun collectors. And in 1989, he tried to scare the Legislature into banning semi-automatic firearms. His tactics were classic bait and switch. Trying to outlaw semi-automatics, he passed out photographs of automatics -- weapons that had nothing to do with his bill.
Perhaps those who don’t trust us really don’t trust themselves, and can’t conceive that others do not share in their deficiencies. Perhaps those so rabid on controlling our motes would be better off examining their own beams.
Why out-of-control characters should have any say whatsoever about controlling the rest of us is something others can try to explain. Perhaps we should give Robyn, Mark, Barbara, Annette and Amy a crack at it.
------------
Help wanted--inquire within
Regular readers: If you agree that mainstream press coverage of the gun rights issue demands a counter-balance, please help me spread the word by sharing Gun Rights Examiner links with your friends via emails, and in online discussion boards, blogs, social media sites, etc. Then get more commentary at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance.
Comments