Recently
Stephen Loomis, President of the Cleveland Police Patrolman’s
Association, called on Ohio Governor John Kasich to violate state law and
United States supreme law by demanding a ban on open carry of
firearms in Cleveland during this week's GOP convention.
For years Loomis has been an advocate for law enforcement, not to mention a roaring critic of Obama's war on state and local police, however his emotions overpowered his brain, and his sworn duty to uphold and defend the US Constitution, when he promoted an executive order outlawing open carry in Cleveland.
“I don't care if it's constitutional or not at this point,” Loomis said, also stating, “I want him [Gov. Kasich] to absolutely outlaw open carry in Cuyahoga County until this RNC is over.”
What Mr. Loomis overlooked, in his understandably emotional reaction to targeted killings of police in Dallas and Baton Rouge, is that no open carry demonstration in the United States has ever devolved into an active shooting incident.
The Black Lives Matter terrorists who murdered police in Texas and Louisiana were not open carry demonstrators exercising their natural human right to possession of firearms. They were murders intent on defiling the very principles outlined in and protected by our constitution and Bill of Rights.
Loomis, by calling for an extralegal ban on open carry, promoted the very criminality he sought to prevent by demanding the legally-protected rights of American citizens, rights bestowed by virtue of our humanity not government, be sidelined for security purposes despite no active shootings associated with open carry or evidence of an imminent confrontation involving open carry demonstrations in Cleveland.
Although I am not an practitioner of open carry, for purposes of tactical efficiency, I strongly support Americans who exercise their liberty to demonstrate as armed citizens, just as I strongly support all five precepts of the First Amendment.
We cannot have a country based on human rights and the rule of law if we, as civilians, policy makers, and policy enforcers, do not understand that a usurpation of our natural rights, and laws protecting our natural rights, is a crime.
Stephen Loomis, as a senior advocate of law enforcement and law enforcement officers, has lost sight of what makes America special in the world and distinct in history of the world.
For years Loomis has been an advocate for law enforcement, not to mention a roaring critic of Obama's war on state and local police, however his emotions overpowered his brain, and his sworn duty to uphold and defend the US Constitution, when he promoted an executive order outlawing open carry in Cleveland.
“I don't care if it's constitutional or not at this point,” Loomis said, also stating, “I want him [Gov. Kasich] to absolutely outlaw open carry in Cuyahoga County until this RNC is over.”
What Mr. Loomis overlooked, in his understandably emotional reaction to targeted killings of police in Dallas and Baton Rouge, is that no open carry demonstration in the United States has ever devolved into an active shooting incident.
The Black Lives Matter terrorists who murdered police in Texas and Louisiana were not open carry demonstrators exercising their natural human right to possession of firearms. They were murders intent on defiling the very principles outlined in and protected by our constitution and Bill of Rights.
Loomis, by calling for an extralegal ban on open carry, promoted the very criminality he sought to prevent by demanding the legally-protected rights of American citizens, rights bestowed by virtue of our humanity not government, be sidelined for security purposes despite no active shootings associated with open carry or evidence of an imminent confrontation involving open carry demonstrations in Cleveland.
Although I am not an practitioner of open carry, for purposes of tactical efficiency, I strongly support Americans who exercise their liberty to demonstrate as armed citizens, just as I strongly support all five precepts of the First Amendment.
We cannot have a country based on human rights and the rule of law if we, as civilians, policy makers, and policy enforcers, do not understand that a usurpation of our natural rights, and laws protecting our natural rights, is a crime.
Stephen Loomis, as a senior advocate of law enforcement and law enforcement officers, has lost sight of what makes America special in the world and distinct in history of the world.
