Oklahoma is crazy land

[avebury]

https://kfor.com/news/oklahoma-legislature/state-senator-files-bills-to-give-oklahoma-sheriffs-power-to-arrest-federal-officers-form-posses-against-federal-agents/

State Senator files bills to give Oklahoma sheriffs power to arrest federal officers, form posses against federal agents

An Oklahoma State Senator filed three bills designed to increase the power wielded by Oklahoma sheriffs, including a bill that empowers sheriffs to arrest federal officers who attempt to confiscate guns.

State Senator Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, filed the bills on Thursday.

“I’ve heard from numerous sheriffs and constituents across this state who are concerned at the consistent ignoring of our Constitution happening by this rogue regime” Dahm said. “The Second Amendment was never solely about hunting unless you’re referring to hunting tyrants. It was about the people being able to protect themselves against a government that would seek to disarm them.”

Senate Bill 1199 allows sheriffs to arrest federal officers who attempt to confiscate guns in Oklahoma.

Senate Bill 1200 requires federal agents and officers to receive permission from the county sheriff before operating in their county.

Senate Bill 1201 expands a sheriff’s ability to form a posse to include prohibiting agents, employees and officers of the federal government from violating the constitutional rights of the people of their county.

[avebury]

1. Continued

“The full totalitarian leftist takeover of a society has always been predicated on confiscation of firearms,” Dahm said. “Thankfully in Oklahoma we have county sheriffs that would never allow that to take place. But we must do everything possible to help them stand up for our rights and this bill further enables them to do that.”

Such legislation is written to play to far right Republicans, said Michael Crespin, a University of Oklahoma Professor of Political Science and Director and Curator of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.

“There can be a fine line between pandering and legitimate legislation. There is probably a subset of the population that would be happy if these bills were to pass and become law and view these bills as legitimate legislation,” Crespin said. “The Republican Party has a super majority in the legislature so there is some possibility that bills like this can gain traction. That being said, proposing legislation like this is clearly aimed at the far right of the Republican Party and earns a great deal of media attention and potentially fundraising activity.”

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. I have a good client in Broken Arrow.

He used to be a Republican. He is an Independent now who leans more Democrat.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. Full-on crazy fundy RWnutjob Nathan. Seems nice. "Rogue regime' my ass, you KKKlown.

Homeschooled. Nathan spent his childhood years in Broken Arrow while his parents attended Bible school. In 1994, the Dahm family moved to the Eastern European nation of Romania as missionaries to the former communist nation. Upon graduating high school, Nathan returned to Romania to serve as a missionary.

During that time, he actively served in each department of his local church and designed the 65-acre Bible school campus being built a few miles outside Romania’s capital city, Bucharest, while serving as the general manager. In 2003, Nathan stayed on as general manager and added the position of Dean of Students for the Bible school’s charter class, serving as dean for four years until returning to Broken Arrow.

[Emile]

4. Why would federal agents confiscate their guns? Did the gun owner

do something wrong? Egads we don't want a bunch of armed law breakers out there do we?

[Girard442]

9. Yeah, does the prohibition against the Feds confiscating guns...

...extend to someone who is actually shooting people?

[LiberatedUSA]

16. I believe they are talking about...

…a hypothetical situation where legislation is passed that demands owners of semiautomatic weapons sell them by a certain date or be arrested.

They are saying they won’t enforce it, as those are people’s property and the will keep it or sell it (at the price the seller decides not some lowball price set by the government) and they and their citizens will violently defend their expensive property from a taking.

A swat team can surround a house. A lot harder to surround an entire state.

Considering blue states ignore federal drug laws by legalizing weed in their states, they could just do the same thing and legalize those guns in their states in face of federal law and say they are following blue state example of picking and choosing which federal laws to ignore.

[Emile]

18. Well then we need to legalize weed nationally immediately!

[LiberatedUSA]

19. I agree...

…but precedent has been set for states to ignore federal laws they don’t like. Too late on that.

[Aviation Pro]

5. Yet another state with a small population, but with an outsized influence in politics

You suck at stating, OK, yeah, you totally suck.

[Diamond_Dog]

6. Too bad OK can't use their laser focus and seemingly vast amounts of time

Actually enacting legislation that helps people … like health care assistance, better public schools, (I have read that their public schools are woefully underfunded), affordable housing, things like that. Sad.

[lastlib]

7. No wonder--it's stuck between Kansas and Texas......

(I'd be crazy, too, if I was stuck there........)

[Lars39]

8. Trying to make Constitutional sheriffs legal.

They’re trying to get a foothold in a lot of places.

[lindysalsagal]

10. People are going lower-reptilian brain hysterical, from 2 years of corona

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/managing-your-memory/201712/don-t-listen-your-lizard-brain

[Irish_Dem]

11. States will use violence to reject being part of a federal system.

This is the plan.

[dalton99a]

12. Stupid Trump trash

[Hugin]

13. 1200 is the most dangerous and unconstitutional.

Buford T Justice would like a very banana republic fiefdom. With himself in complete control, of course.

[Wounded Bear]

14. Yep, crazy Sovereign Citizen bullshit...nt

[LiberatedUSA]

15. I see more red states following this...

…at least the ones with legislation that says they will ignore a future ban.

Guess they want to test Beto’s “hell yea we’re gonna take your AR-15”.

They won’t have to as in order for that kind of ban and confiscate to happen, the filibuster and Supreme Court have to be addressed.

That isn’t looking likely.

[PufPuf23]

17. Perhaps Oklahoma should be included behind the Texas Wall ? nt