From the Editorial Board: To every sheriff hopping on the “Don’t Tread on Me” bandwagon: You don’t get to choose which laws to enforce and which to ignore. You took an oath to uphold the law. And violating that oath carries consequences.
DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick in his Wheaton office on Feb. 17, 2022.
Sheriffs in dozens of counties — by some counts, as many as 80 counties — have declared they will not enforce the new assault weapons ban. It doesn’t matter that Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed the measure into law — they don’t agree with the ban and apparently have no compunction about ignoring it.
To Sheriffs Booker, Mendrick, Boewe and every other sheriff hopping on the “Don’t Tread on Me” bandwagon: You don’t get to choose which laws to enforce and which to ignore. You and every other sheriff, police chief, officer and prosecutor took an oath to uphold the law. And violating that oath carries consequences.
The firestorm over the new law comes as no surprise. Many issues cleave this nation, and gun control is at the top of the list.voted against the assault weapons ban, and in the state Senate no GOP members voted for it. Most Republican legislators wrongly believe that the new law represents a massive impingement on the Second Amendment rights of gun owners. It doesn’t.
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