Vermilion County has become the latest to back the Illinois Second Amendment Preservation Act. The board got a standing ovation this evening (Tuesday) after approving the ordinance. (Nineteen voted ‘yes’, four ‘no’, and four board members were absent.)
County Board Member Jerry Hawker says the action sends a message…
(AUDIO: ‘’First of all it, I believe, shows our state legislature and our governor that the people here in Vermilion County and sixty-seven other counties are tired of any laws that would infringe upon our Second Amendment rights.’’)
Pastor Phil Jackson is one of the leaders of a local group that has been trying to protect the right to bear arms…
(AUDIO: ‘’There are too many things going on that do not have the effect of law that look like government over-reach. Alphabet agencies that have shifts in their policies take it upon themselves to do things that are never enacted by laws through Congress.)
(Todd Castleberry, District 6 Commander of the American Legion, told County Board members that he and others didn’t put on the uniform to stand by while the work of the Founding Fathers is stripped away. Castleberry is a 1986 graduate of Georgetown High School.)
(Although some county board members attended Tuesday’s meeting by Zoom, citizens supporting the Illinois Second Amendment Preservation Act packed the public seating area. They gave the board a standing ovation after it passed the ordinance.)
Hawker noted the citizen group has been working four or five months trying to get the county board to back the Second Amendment Preservation Act.
County Board Chairman Larry Baughn says there was wording he and others wanted to see in the ordinance…
(AUDIO: ‘’One, it protects law-abiding citizens. Two, it’s just supporting the Second Amendment. And three it supports the sitting sheriff of the county. A lot of people have thrown that word ‘sanctuary’ around – and that’s not in that ordinance at all. But again it supports all the efforts the Constitutionalist group wanted. And it just shows the County Board support for the sheriff and the United States Constitution.’’)
Some board members argued that the county does not need any more laws for law-abiding citizens.
Those voting against the ordinance were Robert Boyd, Phearn Butler, Diane Frazier-Brennemen, and board vice-chairman Craig Golden.
