As some cities are becoming sanctuaries for illegal immigrants, Spokane Valley, Washington, is poised to become a sanctuary city of a different type: one where people committed to the Second Amendment can live without fear of being disarmed.

Local TV station KXLY reports:

Councilman Caleb Collier said the proposal is meant to send a message that Spokane Valley protects residents' constitutional Second Amendment rights.

City councilman Ed Pace tells KXLY4 News that the resolution would be a symbolic stand for constitutional rights.

“It would be partly symbolic, partly a lobbying tool,” said Pace, ”it would be a message to the rest of the nation really that we are a city that values the constitutional rights of our citizens and we protect them.”

Collier made this move to protect the right to keep and bear arms after the state’s Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced that he would promote legislation banning the sale of semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines.

Pace and Collier believe such a ban is an infringement on the rights protected by the Second Amendment and is therefore unconstitutional and must be opposed. “I don't believe any type of arms should be banned,” said Pace. “I take the constitution literally in that regard. We have the right, if you want to walk around with an AR-15 and a full magazine on your shoulder, that's your right to do that.”

The news report claims to have asked several residents of the town what they think about the proposed buttressing of the right to keep and bear arms and the respondents indicate that they would oppose the measure.

“I believe we're starting a trend,” said Pace. “We've been labeled by one of our state representatives as the capital of free Washington, and many of us on the council have embraced that, so I believe we will be leaders in that regard.”

We need leaders such as Pace and Collier if the Second Amendment is to be preserved and if the right of Americans to protect themselves is going to remain safe from local, state, and federal attack.

In learned defense of this right, we should turn to the words of our founding generation who universally looked upon the right to be armed as the best check against tyranny.

read more: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/24131-spokane-valley-seeks-to-become-second-amendment-sanctuary-city

: Folks ponder that question and come up with their own answers.

: But, in the end, if one rationally thinks through the liberal
: hype there can be only one answer.

: First and foremost...the very term 'illegal' says it all.
: 'Illegal' only has one meaning.. "an action against
: law".

: "Alien" means in effect 'foreign to a locale'.

: Since words mean things, the liberals are attempting to
: replace the words "illegal alien" with many
: terms, such as 'undocumented workers', 'humanitarian relief
: program' and several others less descriptive of reality.

: As such it is not surprising that the locales which proclaim
: themselves as such are hotbeds of liberals and snowflakes,
: ie, 'Democrats', who see but can't read the handwriting on
: the wall that clearly states that they are done for. Their
: resident working population hates them with a vengeance.

: Thus, this dying breed of liberals devise the sanctuary plan
: to 'buy' votes to stay in political power with funds they
: confiscate from working locals, while the illegal aliens
: attack society with gangs, drugs, robbery, home invasions,
: rape and outright mayhem of all types. This was never made
: more plain than the recent Soros financed 'riots' in DC.

: People with an IQ of room temperature or greater can
: understand
: this simple fact. "If you don't work, you don't
: eat". Yet, the liberals proclaim that we have to feed
: the leaches anyway.

: Cities, counties and entire states have adopted this sanctuary
: philosophy. And if you look, all of them are run by
: democrats.

: So will the sanctuary idea succeed? No.

: And not just because of President Trump who is controlling the
: purse strings of the Federal government and saying 'no
: more'.
: Eventually even the Federal Government will run out of other
: people's money to spend.

: The ultimate reason liberalism will fail will be because the
: people will demand that it fail, and will use whatever
: LEGAL means it can, up to and including the Second
: Amendment.