Up North Progressive

Have you bothered to read the minutes of your County Board of Commissioners lately? When did you last attend a meeting? Have you ever attended a meeting? True, they like to convene those meetings during the middle of the day when most people are at work. If you’re too busy to be bothered to even read up on what’s happening, keep in mind the people Up North Progressive is going to talk about today definitely are going to meetings, and what they’re up to is alarming.

Red hats, second amendment fetishists, and valknut wearing neo-nazis converged on Richmond, Virginia, on January 20, 2020, to protest the state’s legislature adopting common-sense gun laws to protect Virginians. Most Americans regarded the midlife crisis LARP at the Virginia capital a bad day to find parking in Richmond. For the participants, however, it was a call to bring the crazy back to their home state.

Randy Bishop aka “Trucker Randy” attended the Type 2 Diabeetus gathering for 2A rally. Now he’s back in Michigan using his radio show and social media for his Second Amendment resolution campaign. This is how it works:

1. Download this blank resolution document, edit out (YOUR COUNTY’S NAME) and replace it with your county’s name.
2. Take it to your County Board of Commissioners meeting and demand they put it on their agenda and bring it to a vote.
3. Call up all of your 2A loving friends and have them show up at the meeting so it looks like lots of people support it.
4. …
5. PROFIT!

According to Trucker Randy and everyone else involved in this project, this magic document will nullify any common-sense gun law they don’t like. The magic 2A sanctuary county resolution empowers the County Sheriff to ignore state and federal government laws involving guns.

What Randy Bishop and his gun-loving friends don’t understand is that resolutions at the county level deal with policies for how the county government will function. These policies affect the budget, personnel, the various agencies and so on.  There are limits to a County government’s legislative powers. All resolutions and ordinances passed by the local government require permission from the Governor. Any policy or ordinance that conflicts with laws at the state level is not enforceable.

The red flag law Trucker Randy and the rest of the 2A gun fetishists are worried about was introduced last year to the Michigan Legislature but hasn’t been assigned to a committee. These people are so terrified of their guns being taken away they think they need this resolution in place before a law exists. Protection to do things like this.

Or this.

Or this.

Or this.

Their agenda is to intimidate every County Board of Commissioners into passing this resolution. Five counties have approved it so far, and there will be more in a matter of days. Now would be a good time to take the time to check in on what’s happening. These people will be there demanding their 2A protection resolution in your county as soon as possible.